Mix devotional songs from ancient cultures with modern electronic house rhythms and what do you get? If you're the Algerian-born San Francisco DJ Cheb i Sabbah you get modern music that preserves the ...

Hollywood filmmakers put world music in their movies whenever they want to create an exotic mood, which is why -- to cite just one current example -- director Adrian Lyne used songs by the great ...

Cheb i Sabbah's life traces an almost fairy-tale perfect path through the evolution of what's now called world music. Born in Algeria in 1947, he absorbed the Judeo-Arabic Andalusian music of his ...

On a balmy Southern Californian evening in 2003, dj, producer and self-proclaimed "musical adventurer" Cheb i Sabbah joined forces with Pakistani Qawwali ensemble Riffat Sultana & Party along with ...

The influential producer, musician and DJ hooked into traditions from India to North Africa to make music that was perfect for the digital... Global DJ, composer and musician Cheb I Sabbah died last ...

DJ Cheb i Sabbah was one of the first DJs to spin records in Paris during the '60s, and fused Asian/Indian sounds with electronic beats during the '80s. Sadly, Sabbah has just been diagnosed with ...

As far as event names go, The Full Circle Tour: DJ Cheb i Sabbah & 1002 Nights featuring Mitch Hyare and Riffat Sultana & Party is one of the largest we’ve seen in a while, but that’s understandable — ...

DJ Cheb i Sabbah’s new album, Krishna Lila (Six Degrees), may well be the first collection of bhajans, or Hindi devotional tunes, constructed in Pro Tools. It was recorded over a two-year period on ...

DJ Cheb I Sabbah has released his new album “Le Voix du Maghreb” (Voices of Maghreb). La Presse reports that singers, who are little known to the Tunisian public, interpreted the eight songs in the ...

For decades, San Francisco DJ Cheb i Sabbah has explored numerous fusions and reconfigurations of North African, Middle Eastern and Indian music... Paying Tribute To San Francisco DJ Cheb I Sabbah ...