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Khaled (musician)
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Khaled Hadj Ibrahim, better known as Khaled, is an Algerian raï singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist born in Oran. He began recording in his teens under the name Cheb Khaled and has become the most internationally famous Algerian singer in the Arab world. His popularity has earned him the unofficial title King of Raï and his most famous songs are Didi, Aïcha and Cest la vie as well as Alech Taadi, which was prominently featured in the feature film The Fifth Element. Khaled Hadj Ibrahim was born in 1960 in Orans Eckmühl neighborhood, at the age of 14, he founded the Cinq Étoiles band and started performing in nightclubs and at weddings. In the 1980s, Khaled started producing and singing raï songs and he moved to France in 1986. On 12 January 1995, Khaled married Samira Diabi,27, with whom he has four daughters, in 1998, the documentary Khaled, Derrière le sourire was produced, recounting his life. He was awarded Moroccan citizenship in August 2013, which he didnt ask for, the song was also used in a Bollywood films Shreeman Aashiq and Airlift and a Mollywood film titled Highway. Khaled and producer Don Was appeared on the The Tonight Show on 4 February 1993, the latter track, which saw heavy rotation on MTV Europe, climbed to fourth on the charts in Germany. Known as the King of Rai, Khaled is a winner of awards, and has sold over 80.5 million albums worldwide including 10 diamond, platinum. In 2010 he performed Didi at the ceremony of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. With a record million downloads of the hit single Cest la vie on European and Canadian iTunes, the album contains a message of tolerance, love and peace, staying away from the themes of conflict that many other artists in the Arab world explore. Khaled tried to convey what Algerian immigrants suffer in Europe through the album, c’est la vie was Khaled’s first album after a five-year break from recording during 2011 presidential elections in France and the Arab Spring. This discography does not include a number of released on cassette in Algeria early in his career
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Cheb Mami
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Ahmed Khelifati Mohamed, better known by his stage name Cheb Mami, is a French-Algerian raï singer. He sings and speaks in Algerian Arabic and French, Cheb Mami was born in Graba-el-wed, a populous quarter of Saïda, Algeria. Located 170 kilometres south of Oran, the city of Saida is on the high mesas of southwestern Algeria and it was in 1985 that Mami came to Paris and found his musical niche. He was in service for two years in Algeria but was an entertainer on army bases. After that, in May 1989, Mami returned to Paris at the Olympia and he also toured the United States, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Scandinavia and England. Mamis music is a blend of Mediterranean and Western influences including Turkish, Flamenco and his voice is tinged with Andalusian accents, and his music is an amalgamation of the traditional and the modern styles of singing and creation of music. Although Mami has been able to be recognized by media in the United States. He was accused of having tried to force Isabelle Simon, his former girlfriend, during a trip to Algeria in the summer of 2005, the victim Isabelle Simon was locked in a house belonging to one of Mamis friends, where an abortive procedure was attempted on her. Back in France, however, she realized the fetus was still alive, Mami had accused his manager Michel Lecorre of organizing the abortion plan, Michel Levy was later sentenced to four years for plotting and organizing the assault. Mami was arrested in France several days before his trial, he was taken into custody by officials at a Paris airport as he arrived into the country from Algeria on 22 June 2010. The following July, a Paris court found him guilty of drugging and attempted forcible abortion, on 21 September 2010, his lawyers applied for conditional release, a request that was turned down on 12 October 2010. Upon a second appeal however, the French court agreed for his release on 23 March 2011. In July 2015 Cheb Mami had to compensate 200,000 euros to Cheb Rabah for plagiarizing his texts, the songs in question are Le raï cest chic, Madanite, Ma vie deux fois, Gualbi Gualbi. Mouss et Hakim / Parisien du Nord feat, ziggy Marley • Desert Rose feat. Susheela Raman • Enfants dafrique feat,113 • Youm Wara Youm feat. Tonton David • The Best Times of Our Lives feat, enrico Macias • Azwaw 2 feat. Idir Live au Grand Rex Tracks, Azwaw • Parisien du Nord • Nagumo feat, susheela Raman • Mamzareli • Mazal Souvenir Aandi • Desert Rose • Koum Tara feat. Enrico Macias • Bledi - Mon pays • Cosi Celeste feat, zucchero • Alache Alik • Meli Meli • Des 2 Côtés feat
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
