Barbès is the debut album by French–Algerian singer Rachid Taha. It was released by Barclay Records in 1991.
All songs written and composed by Rachid Taha.
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Valérie Trierweiler (née Massonneau; born 16 February 1965) is a French political journalist. She is the domestic partner of François Hollande, the 24th President of the French Republic.
Massonneau was born in Angers, the fifth child of six. Her father, Jean-Noël Massonneau, lost a leg on a landmine during World War II when he was 13, and died at the age of 53, when his daughter was 21. Her grandfather and great-grandfather owned the bank Massonneau & Co., which was sold in 1950 to the French bank Crédit de l'Ouest. Her mother worked at the front desk of the Angers ice rink following the death of her father.
She studied history and political science and obtained a DESS (Master of Advanced Studies) in political science from the Sorbonne.
In 2005, she hosted political talk-shows, especially interviews, on the Direct 8 television channel. She hosted the weekly political talk-show Le Grand 8 until 2007. She has co-hosted with Mikaël Guedj the weekly show Politiquement parlant ("politically speaking") since September of that year.
Rachid Taha (Arabic: رشيد طه) (born September 18, 1958 in Sig, Algeria) is an Algerian singer and activist based in France who has been described as "sonically adventurous." His music is influenced by many different styles such as rock, electronic, punk and raï.
Taha was born in 1958 in Sig (Mascara Province), Algeria, although a second source suggests he was born in the Algerian seacoast city of Oran. This town was the "birthplace of raï" music, and 1958 was a key year in the Algerian struggle for independence against French authority. He began listening to Algerian music in the 1960s, including street-style music called chaabi. And music from the Maghreb region was part of his upbringing.
He moved with his parents to France when he was ten years old, settling in an immigrant community around the French city of Lyon in 1968. His father was a textile factory worker, with long hours and low pay, such that his life was compared to that of a "modern slave", according to one account. When 17, Taha worked during the day at a central heating plant, described as a "menial job", and hated this work, but at night worked as a club DJ playing Arabic music, rap, salsa, funks and "anything else that took his fancy." The contrast between menial work during the day and fun during the night may have helped to develop his musical sensibility. In the late 1970s, Taha founded the nightclub called The Rejects or, in French, Les Refoulés, where he would spin mashups of Arabic pop classics over Led Zeppelin, Bo Diddley and Kraftwerk backbeats.
Mano Solo (24 April 1963 – 10 January 2010), born Emmanuel Cabut, was a French singer. He was born in Châlons-sur-Marne on 24 April 1963 to the illustrator Cabu and Isabelle Monin, co-founder of the ecology-related magazine, La Gueule ouverte.
From age 17, Mano Solo played guitar in a punk rock group, les Chihuahuas. He began singing his own compositions in the early nineties. He then sang regularly at the Tourtour theatre in Paris, alongside singers Marousse and P'tit Louis.
His first album, La Marmaille Nue ("The Naked Children"), was released in 1993 and sold 100,000 copies in the first year. 1995 saw his second album, Les Années Sombres ("The Dark Years"), a somber album that also went gold in its first months.
In 1996, he regrouped with part of the Chihuahuas for the album Frères Misère (Brothers in Misery). Its rhythms are closer to punk, and the texts are more topical than his solo albums. With little media attention, the album failed to meet immediate success.
1997 saw the release of a new album: Je sais pas trop ("I don't really know"). Recorded live and featuring, once again, original melodies and sounds, it was a Gold record in France.