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PARIS-Algerian singer Rachid Taha, who thrillingly blended Arabic music with rock and techno and at times wore blue contact lenses to protest anti-Arab prejudice in his adoptive France, has died. He ...

Rachid Taha, the French-Algerian singer best known for fusing rock with raï, a form of traditional Algerian folk, has died from a heart attack at age 59. “It is with regret and immense sadness that ...

Rachid Taha, who became a rock star in France with assertive lyrics and music that melded his Algerian heritage with punk, funk and electronic beats, has died in Les Lilas, a Paris suburb. He was 59.

Rachid Taha compares his music to a plate of couscous. Interviewed via translator from his home in France, the 49-year-old Algerian-born singer and global punk icon says he was happy to discover that ...

French-Algerian musician Rachid Taha, known for fusing Algerian raï folk music with rock, has died. He was 59. Taha died of a heart attack at his home in the Lilas suburb of Paris, according to a ...

PARIS — Algerian singer Rachid Taha, who thrillingly blended Arabic music with rock and techno and at times wore blue contact lenses to protest anti-Arab prejudice in his adoptive France, has died. He ...

Rachid Taha was born in Algeria and raised in France. But his real home is in rock ’n’ roll. A Paris-based rocker who sings in Arabic and uses Middle Eastern sounds, Taha recorded his first album in ...

He's an Arab punk rocker. He's a provocateur who criticizes Arab governments. He's a romantic who sprinkles conversations with sex references. Oh, yeah -- he's also a budding screenwriter and novelist ...

Algerian and French musician Rachid Taha uses sounds from rock, hip-hop, dance and reggae to create unique dance tracks. That blend of musical cultures reflects Taha's own multinational background: ...

Singer Rachid Taha was born in Algeria, but came of age in the rock 'n' roll milieu of France in the '70s. He sings in Arabic, but his music is as apt to channel The Rolling Stones or The Ramones as ...