Khaled

THIS IS A FANSITE.Khaled, gained fame with his hit single "Aisha or Aicha" in 1996, which was very popular especially in his adopted France. This song which was originally written by Jean Jacques Goldman and Khaled was also covered by the hip hop band Outlandish in 2003. The name "Aicha" is an Algerian girl's name. Khaled's real name is Khaled Hadj Brahim whilst Cheb Khaled was his stage name which in arabic means -young Khaled, but he dropped the "Cheb" part of his name in 1992. He was born on the 29th of February 1960 in Sidi-El-Houri, Algeria. His genre of music is called "Rai" but he has mixed that in with "pop" in many of his songs. He started singing when he was fourteen and even had his own band -"Les Cinq Etoiles" which literally means in French- "the five stars". Khaled felt he had to leave his beloved Algeria for France, Paris in 1986 because of threats from Islamic Fundamentalists in his beloved country, they felt that "Rai" was unislamic and they still do they have murdered some of Khaled's friends starting with Cheb Hasni murdered in Oran in Algeria in 1994 and then early in 1995 when Rachid Baba-Ahmed the great "Rai" producer and a good friend of Khaled was also murdered in Oran. They may have left this earth, but there music will always live on and they will be greatly missed. More recently Khaled has worked with French Hip Hop artists such as IAM. His song "Alech Taadi" also appears in the Luc besson film "the fifth element". I hope you enjoy Khaled's music and thanks for supporting him over the years, he wouldnt be anywhere without his beloved fans. Merci and for his arabic speaking fans-shukran. Sorry about the offensive comments, i cant seem to delete them,as an error message comes up.Im sorry i have not replied to messages in awhile i am currently very busy, it is getting hard to update this page.