DRISSI EL-ABBASSI, a singer of raï—a modern style of traditional Algerian music that originated in the Oran region. Following the 2020 discovery and compilation of his rare recordings—which garnered s…

Raï — the music that was born and grew up in Algeria's bars, that flourished separately through the people who fled to France amid fundamentalist repression and civil-war chaos, and that won wide popu…