What is Rachid Taha?
{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians --> | name = Rachid Taha | native_name = رشيد طه | image = Rachid Taha.jpg | image_size = | landscape = yes | caption = Taha in 2011 | background = solo_singer | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date |df=y|1958|9|18}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|2018|9|12|1958|9|18|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Sig, Algeria|Sig]] or [[Oran]], [[French Algeria]] | death_place = [[Les Lilas]], [[Île-de-France]], France | genre = {{hlist|[[World music|World]]<ref name=twsD18/>|[[Rock music|rock]]<ref name=twsD11>{{cite news|author= Jon Pareles |title= Algerian Singer Mixes Rock and Rai |newspaper= The New York Times |date= 7 July 2008 |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/07/arts/music/07taha.html |access-date= 4 June 2011}}</ref>|[[raï]]<ref>{{cite journal |url= http://www.echo.ucla.edu/Volume5-issue1/al_taee/altaee.pdf |first= Nasser |last= Al-Taee |title= Running with the Rebels: Politics, Identity, and Sexual Narrative in Algerian Rai |journal= Echo |date= Spring 2003 |volume= 5 |issue= 1 |access-date= 18 October 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180915150718/http://www.echo.ucla.edu/Volume5-issue1/al_taee/altaee.pdf |archive-date= 15 September 2018 |url-status=dead |df= dmy-all }}</ref>|[[Chaabi (Algeria)|Algerian chaabi]]<ref name=twsD13>{{cite news|author= Robin Denselow|title= Nuclear fusion: Rashed Taha mixes rock and techno with Algerian street music – and the results are so good, he's already been banned from French radio|newspaper= The Guardian|date= 28 May 2001|url= https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2001/may/28/artsfeatures1|access-date= 4 June 2011|location=London}}</ref>}} | occupation = {{hlist|Singer-songwriter<ref name=twsD18/><ref name=twsD21/>|activist}} | years_active = 1980–2018 | label = {{hlist|[[Knitting Factory]]|[[Island Records|Island]]|[[Barclay Records|Barclay]]}} | past_member_of = | website