Abdel Ali Slimani

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

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 ...