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Cheb Mami
Cheb Mami is credited on 214 releases across 75 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1988–2023 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
214
Pressings credited
75
Albums
5
Decades active
46
In collections
Biography
Mohamed Khelifati (Arabic: محمد خليفاتي, romanized: Muḥammad Khalīfātī; born 11 July 1966), better known by his stage name Cheb Mami (شاب مامي, Shābb Māmī), is an Algerian raï musician and singer-songwriter. He sings and speaks in Algerian Arabic and sometimes in Eastern Arabic dialects or in French. Internationally, he is known for contributing vocals to the 1999 Sting single "Desert Rose".
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
214 releases · 75 albums · active 1988–2023
- Performance · 385
- Other credits · 16
Studios: Studio Guillaume Tell · Studio Mega · Avatar Studios · Boppyhop Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Brand New Day
1999

The Very Best Of... Sting & The Police
1997

The Bridge
2021

My Songs
2019

Desert Rose
2000

Cooking Vinyl • 1993 Sampler
1993

Duets
2021

Live In Berlin
2010

Africa : 50 Years Of Music (1960/2010 : 50 Ans D'Indépendances)
2010

Zu & Co.
2004

Planete Raï - Le Meilleur Du Raï
1992

57th & 9th: Live From Chicago
2017

The Best Of 25 Years
2011

Dolphins (Soundtrack From The IMAX Theatre Film)
2000
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Sting
- Tonton David
- Samira Said
- Nitin Sawhney
- Alliance Ethnik
- Sol En Si
- Terence Blanchard
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