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Rai singer Abdel Ali Slimani was raised in El Anasser, Algeria, where as a teen he learned guitar and performed as a drummer at soccer matches. Finding little opportunity for musicians in his native land, he went to Paris in 1982; after a subsequent move to London, Slimani found work as a club DJ before signing on as a vocalist and percussionist with ex-<a href="spotify:artist:70MMkLXtue3Edj3RJhJkYp">PiL</a> bassist <a href="spotify:artist:5jhqwsWfRaETrWPWI0Rc7u">Jah Wobble's</a> Anglo-Arabic unit <a href="spotify:artist:3f2ld0zljQSyarVWTmaYbd">Invaders of the Heart</a>. In 1996, <a href="spotify:artist:5jhqwsWfRaETrWPWI0Rc7u">Wobble</a> co-produced Slimani's solo debut Mraya, a collection spotlighting the fusion of the performer's rai-based Algerian roots with the influences of Western culture. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi
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