Abdel Ali Slimani Explained

Abdel Ali Slimani (Arabic عبد العلي سليماني, Algiers) is an Algerian raï singer.

Life

Jazz Times described his 1996 album Mraya "an impressive debut"^[1] being noted by others for his song Moi et Toi.^[2] Slimani's rai steers clear of suggestive content and bad language and is as Slimani says "family music" heard on the radio in Algeria even in the 1990s.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Jazz Times 1996 "... cogent core identity in the music of Rai musician Abdel Ali Slimani, whose Mraya (Real World) is an impressive debut, and another point chalked up for the gospel of Rai, still relatively unknown in the west."
2. Reginald Byron, Ullrich Kockel Negotiating Culture: Moving, Mixing and Memory in Contemporary Europe 2006 Page 108 "In the musical world, men such as the Algerian singer Abdel ali Slimani stand out: in Moi et Toi he tells of a man who falls in love with a woman outside his group and is therefore rejected by both his family and friends"
3. Option: Volumes 72-76 Sonic Options Network - 1997 "Abdel Ali Slimani - BACK HOME IN ALGERIA, singing rai can get you killed. It's the music of rebellion, with decadent lyrics about smoking, drinking, love and sex — all of it pretty tame by Western standards, but fundamentally subversive ...says Slimani, 34, in tentative English. "My music is very, very clean. I never swear. I do family music. You can hear it now on the radio in Algeria. Everyone can listen." Growing up in a middle-class family ...