That was firmly cemented the following year with the Was-produced N'ssi N'ssi, which mixed funk, rock, and an Egyptian orchestra behind Khaled's persuasive voice and winning smile for a major commercial breakthrough in France, winning a European, as well as North African, audience. It yielded his first big hit, " Didi" and helped consolidate his reputation as Raï's first superstar. He fared much better with 1992's Khaled, with some tracks produced by Michael Brook and others by Don Was. Arriving with a reputation, he attempted to take his music to a global level, although his real debut, Kutche, did him no favors with its jazz-rock arrangements. The album, Kutché, released in 1988, a collaboration between Khaled and the Algerian jazz musician Safy Boutella, expanded his reputation in France, where he soon settled.By 1986, Khaled (who'd now dropped the Cheb) had been forced to move to Paris, as violence in Algeria claimed lives and he'd been threatened several times (producer Ahmed would, in fact, be murdered, as would several Raï performers). Shortly thereafter, Snoussi arranged for Cheb Khaled to record in France, with funding from the Office Riadh el Feth. Cheb Khaled, who had been avoiding his mandatory military service, was able to perform at Bobigny only after Colonel Snoussi intervened with the Algerian military authorities to secure him a passport. Hosni Snoussi and Martin Meissonnier, who met at the Festival, convinced France's Minister of Culture Jack Lang that the export of rai from Algeria to France was in the French government's interest and together they organized the first rai festival in France at Bobigny in 1986.
In the same year, he was crowned king of rai in the first official festival of rai which was staged in Oran. His rise to national fame was mainly due to the efforts of Lieutenant-Colonel Hosni Snoussi, director of the state-supported arts and culture Office Riadh el Feth, who took Khaled under his wing and invited him along with other rai stars to perform at the state-sponsored Festival de la Jeunesse pour la Fête Nationale in Algiers in July 1985. Khaled Hadj Ibrahim was born in 1960 in Oran's Eckmühl neighborhood, Algeria. Among his most famous songs are " Didi", "El Arbi", " Abdel Kader", " La Poupée qui fait non", "Wahran Wahran", "Bakhta", " Aïcha", " C'est la vie", and "Alech Taadi". To date, Khaled has sold over 80.5 million albums (10 diamond, platinum, and gold) worldwide, making him one of the bestselling Arabic-language singers in history. Khaled is one of the most important musicians in the history of Raï music in his native Algeria and is one the world's best-known Arab singers. He began recording in his early teens under the name Cheb Khaled (Arabic: الشاب خالد, Arabic for "Young" Khaled, with "Cheb" as a common title for male Raï singers).
Khaled Hadj Ibrahim (Arabic: خالد حاج إبراهيم, in Arabic pronounced as /ˈxaːled ħaːd͡ʒ ɪbraːˈhiːm/ born 29 February 1960), better known by his mononym Khaled (Arabic: link=no|خالد), is an Algerian raï singer, musician and songwriter born in Oran. King of Raï Cheb Khaled The Ambassador of Arab music
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