Khaled (album)
1992 album by Khaled
Khaled is a self-titled debut solo studio album by Algerian singer-songwriter Khaled. It was released on 1992, by Barclay and PolyGram Records. for a major music label. The album was produced by Michael Brook and Don Was.
Production
Khaled signed with French record label Barclay Records, then brought in American record producer Don Was to "incorporate American R&B—to Americanize the music", which Don Was achieved by combining Khaled's live musicians with loops and beats from his Macintosh computer and a keyboard. The result of these sessions in the studio that combined Khaled's rai with Was' R&B, was, according to Was, "pretty wild music."
Reception
The album was primarily sung in Khaled's native Algerian Arabic dialect with the exception of "Ne m'en voulez pas", which was sung in French. According to some estimates, the album sold over 7 million copies and became the biggest selling Arabic album.
The response from the Arab public was mixed. Many of the more conservative Arabs stopped buying his records and going to his concerts, feeling offended by exposure to what they perceived as the liberal West, and by what they saw as "(selling) out to Western commercialism". Others saw this as new, cool, and revolutionary, and he attracted a new audience.
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