Chaba Fadela

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Fadela Zelmat ( Arabic فضيلة زلماط, DMG Faḍīla Zilmāṭ ), better known by her stage name asch-Schāba Fadīla (الشابة فضيلة, DMG aš-Šāba Faḍīla , "The young woman Fadela / virtue") or Chaba Fadela ( French , pronounced sch-; * February 5, 1962 in Oran ) is an Algerian actress and singer. In 1978 she published Ana Ma H'Lali Ennoum , in German “I can't sleep”, the first Raï piece in which synthesizers were used. It was a huge hit in the Maghreb and the beginning of the pop raï phenomenon of the 1980s.

At the end of the 1970s she met her future husband Cheb Sahraoui, with whom she lived and worked for the next 20 years. Initially, the duo only appeared at weddings and similar celebrations, since their joint global hit N'sel Fik, produced by the legendary Rachid Baba Ahmed in 1983, they have also gained an increasing reputation in the West, which among other things a. In 1993 in a collaboration with Bill Laswell for the album Walli and successful international tours. N'Sel Fik was inducted into The Wire's “100 Records That Set the World on Fire (While No One Was Listening)” .

In the late 1990s, her marriage and artistic partnership with Sahraoui broke up. Since then she has been working alone again.