{"id":17298,"date":"2018-09-12T13:24:16","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T13:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/worlds\/algerian-singer-rachid-taha-dies-aged-59-in-paris\/16"},"modified":"2018-09-12T13:24:16","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T13:24:16","slug":"algerian-singer-rachid-taha-dies-aged-59-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/?p=17298","title":{"rendered":"Algerian singer Rachid Taha dies aged 59 in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Rachid Image copyright AFP\/Getty Image caption The singer died at his home on Tuesday night, his family said <\/p>\n

Algerian-born singer Rachid Taha has died of a heart attack at home in Paris aged 59, his family said.<\/p>\n

Taha was born on Algeria’s north-west coast in 1958 and moved with his family to Lyon aged 10.<\/p>\n

He rose to prominence as the lead singer of Arabic-language group Carte de S\u00e9jour, which blended Western punk rock with Algerian Maghrebi music.<\/p>\n

Taha then went solo, and in 2004 covered The Clash’s song Rock the Casbah.<\/p>\n

His other famous songs include a version of Douce France with Carte de S\u00e9jour, as well as his cover of song Ya Rayah as a solo artist.<\/p>\n

Image copyright AFP\/Getty Image caption Taha was reportedly working on a new album prior to his death <\/p>\n

Most famously, however, Taha cited cited British punk group The Clash as a major influence.<\/p>\n

He allegedly met them in 1981 and handed them a copy of his band’s demo tape – which he later suggested may have influenced one of their most famous tracks.<\/p>\n

“A few months [after giving them the tape], I heard Rock the Casbah,” he said in an interview with London-based newspaper The Guardian. “Maybe they did hear it after all.”<\/p>\n

He would go on to perform his own version of the song with The Clash’s Mick Jones years later.<\/p>\n

His work also appeared in several films.<\/p>\n

Barra Barra, a song from his album Made in Medina, notably appeared in the 2001 war film Black Hawk Down.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Image copyright AFP\/Getty Image caption The singer died at his home on Tuesday night, his family said Algerian-born singer Rachid Taha has died of a heart attack at home in Paris aged 59, his family said. Taha was born on Algeria’s north-west coast in 1958 and moved with his family to Lyon aged 10. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7958,7959,7960,7961,7962],"class_list":["post-17298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worlds","tag-algerian-arabic","tag-algerian-music","tag-rashid-taha","tag-ya-rayeh","tag-yal-rayeh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}