#khaled

Khaled - Alech Taadi 1993

Khaled Hadj Ibrahim is an Algerian raï singer, musician and songwriter. He 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. 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. He holds the Guinness World Record for best-selling artist of raï music.

The song "Alech Taadi", from his second studio album N'ssi N'ssi, was used for the taxicab chase scene in the fantastic 1997 film The Fifth Element. The lyrics are in Maghrebi Arabic.

"Alech Taadi" received a total of 69,8% yes votes!

« 𝑰 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒂 𝒑𝒊𝒆𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝑰 𝒎𝒂𝒚 𝒈𝒐.

𝑨 𝒔𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓

𝑨 𝒉𝒖𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝑰 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘

𝑨 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒇𝒆𝒘

𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒋𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒔

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒚 𝒔𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕

𝑪𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒂 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒛𝒆

𝑨 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒃 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒄𝒆𝒂𝒏

𝑨 𝒅𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏

𝑨𝒏 𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒐 𝒐𝒇 𝒍𝒂𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒆𝒓

𝑨 𝒌𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒂 𝒍𝒊𝒑𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒌 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏

𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑰'𝒎 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈

𝑹𝒆𝒇𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒎𝒚 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒆

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒊𝒈𝒈𝒍𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝒉𝒊𝒑𝒔

𝑨𝒔 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒌 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒆. »

𝙼𝚒𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚎 𝚂𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚎𝚛

The whole song is in French, these two Algerian/French-Algerian guys singing in French, and then they get to the one verse in Arabic and they stop singing and let the audience sing it instead (at the 3-minute mark)

AND MAN I'M TELLING YOU

Thinking about the history of French colonialism in Algeria, the horrific genocide against the natives there, the brutalization and decimation of the country and its people

The sound of this entire stadium full of people singing in Arabic with such love and joy, in Paris, in the heart of France

That hits HARD. I can't get through this performance without crying every time.