Cheb Hasni was a young singer from Oran considered heir to the Khaled throne, when he was brutally gunned down in the streets of Oran in September 1994 by an extreme Islamic fundamentalist group enraged by Hasni's songs of youth, desolation and a desire for a new life in Algeria.
Lovers Rai at its best with the Prince of sentimental love songs. here, Hasni's ability to dance and to love are portrayed in some of his finest moments of commercial release. -- From The Label
Cheb Hasni released nearly 100 cassettes in North Africa before being gunned down in 1995 in front of his mothers home in Oran, Algeria by fundamentalist gunmen... BAND_MEMBERS: Hasni Chekroune