Name Khaled Habib Also known as Sultan Role Singer | Instruments Guitar, Bass Movies Bla mandag Years active 1990-present Albums Khaled Habib | |
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Genres World Music, Algerian Music, Rock, Jazz, Blues Occupation(s) Singer, Songwriter, Composer, Actor, Film Director Similar People Ida Redig, Jennifer Brown, Fred Akerstrom | ||
Birth name Khaled Habib El Kebich | ||
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Khaled Habib El-Kebich (born January 24, 1970 in Tiaret, Algeria) is an Algerian singer-songwriter, film director, composer and an actor. He composes and performs a genre of music which is both traditional and modern. He has developed a personal musical mix in which he blends different musical styles as well as music from all over the world and creates an exciting and unique musical style which is both innovative and captivating. His music could be described as having influences of funk, jazz, reggae, blues, soul, Latin rhythms as well as folk music from various corners of the world. The same applies to the mix of instruments with everything ranging from traditional drums to electronic sounds-capes.
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The fact that his style has its roots in Algerian music mixed with a variety of different musical directions partly because he has written and performed with a number of bands of different ethnic background, such as Down By Law from Italy, New Phases from South Africa, Aquarius from France, Hada Raïna from Sweden, and others.
He has also participated at major European festivals such as: Falun Folkmusik Festival, Roskilde Festival, ArtGenda Festival, Stockholm Water Festival, Re:Orient Festival, Folk o Folk Festival, Verlden i Norden Festival, 550 Fatih Istanbul Festival and many others.
Khaled Habib’s artistic field extends into the domains of performing and directing his shows, as well as composing music for films and theatre plays, such as La Celestina set up at the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theater (Dramaten) under the direction of Robert Lepage (1998), and the film Nattbok by Carl Henrik Svenstedt, “Vingar av glas” and “Cappricciosa” directed by Reza Bagher,”Huvudrollen” by Leyla Assaf-Tangroth. Foursan Al Hoggar directed by Kamal Laham.
From wild brash orchestral sounds to subliminal moody underscore and shimmering textures, Khaled Habib film-music and scoring is contemporary with emotional sounds-capes that enhance a film work whilst adhering to a consistent musical personality.