The icon of Algerian raï

Halima Mazzi, better known under the name Cheba Zahouania, was born in 1959 in Oran, from a Moroccan father and an Algerian mother. Cheba Zahouania starts her career as singer in a female band of meddaha. She records her first title in 1981, and she knows a great success in the raï trend when she makes a duet with …