PARIS (AP) - 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 ...

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France-based Algerian singer Rachid Taha has died. His record label, Naïve, announced his death at age 59 in a statement on its Facebook page. By Associated Press France-based Algerian singer Rachid ...

Rachid Taha, who has died of a heart attack aged 59, shook up the global music scene with his inventive and fiery fusion of Algerian styles and rock, techno and punk. An engagingly bohemian-looking ...

The French-Algerian singer Rachid Taha has a story about the first time he met the Clash. It was September 1981, and Taha bumped into all four members of the band just before they were due to play at ...

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 ...

Rachid Taha is part of a generation of French musicians who were inspired by the Clash to reinvent rock'n'roll on their own terms, and it now seems no Rachid Taha gig is complete without a guest slot ...

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 ...

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 ...

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French-Algerian singer Rachid Taha, giant of 1980s French rock and icon of Algerian Rai music, died of a heart attack in his Paris home Tuesday night. He was 59. “It is with regret and immense sadness ...

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 ...