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    Can Rachid Taha rock the Casbah?
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    I ask Taha about de la Isla, the doomed poet-hero of Spanish Flamenco. "He was the greatest singer of all time, alongside Elvis Presley" answers Taha. "He was also the last punk." Full Article at The Independent
    He was the greatest singer of all time, alongside Elvis Presley
    – Rachid Taha (musician) SOURCE: The Independent 3 weeks ago
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Can Rachid Taha rock the Casbah?
  1. Well it isn't the case at all pal!
    SOURCE: The Independent 3 weeks ago
  2. There's no infrastructure in North Africa equivalent to the one in the west ... Over there, you don't record a cassette, you just fill it up. Singers are still considered buffoons. There's no real intellectual or cultural interest in what they do, so they're content to just sing for important personages...
    SOURCE: The Independent 3 weeks ago
  3. It was a sort of Rotary Club gathering, but it didn't go far,' he says. 'In fact, to begin with, what is Africa Express? What's it for?
    SOURCE: The Independent 3 weeks ago
  4. I couldn't give a toss, I'm beyond that now
    SOURCE: The Independent 3 weeks ago
  5. He was also the last punk.
    SOURCE: The Independent 3 weeks ago
  6. hang on, I'll pass you my Financial Director and you can talk to him.
    SOURCE: The Independent 3 weeks ago
  7. Nothing's really changed. I don't see many African artists making it in France right now, or Arabic ones. We're still in the era of the West and America holding on to their role as the arbiters of pop music, of Africa and everything else, even the economy and life itself. Africa is just left to die, jus...
    SOURCE: The Independent 3 weeks ago
  8. They were in French cultural centres. It's always frustrating to play in places like Algeria. I always come back dissatisfied, with a suitcase full of pain. Either it's all very intellectual and bourgeois, or you go popular and play in stadiums. Or it's nothing at all, except weddings perhaps. But can y...
    SOURCE: The Independent 3 weeks ago
  9. Weeee don't laaahhk it!!!! ROCK DA CASBAH! ROCK DA CASBAH!!!
    SOURCE: The Independent 3 weeks ago

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