Mami’s crisis began in 2009 when he stood before the judge, exhausted without hope, and said: “My lord, judge, my career has stopped in France and Algeria.
Mami (53 years old) was born on July 11, 1966, he recently lived all the contradictions of life, has returned to point zero, and today he is striving with all his efforts to turn the page of the past and start again, at a different time when new Algerian voices have appeared.Īccording to the director of the Higher Institute of Music in Algeria, Abdelkader BouazaraThis important opportunity that Sting gave him, came after most of his attempts to return were unsuccessful, forcing him to hide from view for many years.īouazarra told Sky News Arabia: “Mami today is not Mami yesterday when his songs were the most comforting and desolate Algerians in exile, since his album“ Lat Mai Rai ”was released in 1990, before laws and justice stole his dreams, to pay a high price because of An unimaginable mistake “. īecause of that crime, Mami turned in the eyes of the artists into a minefield, and no one dared approach him, for even his companion in the song Rai, Cheb Khaled, did not give him the opportunity to return to singing, and production companies and concert halls fled from him, after the French media put him in Black list. Has shifted Cheb Mami In recent years, from an international star to a man walking the streets of France alone, and sometimes subject to ridicule and anger from the French press, which did not forgive him for his crime committed against his lover that forced her to Miscarriage. įollowers see that step Sting Mame, who appears to be the most in need of the album’s artist, after his popularity suffered after his release from prison in 2011. The song returns to the front, after 20 years of filming the video clip in the Mohani Desert in the United States of America, when the song was ranked 17th in the classification of the most popular international songs, and awarded the duo Sting and Mammy Many awards, including the “Grammy”.