I’d name my daughter Aicha, just for those three lines. Khaled’s powerful voice never fails to sends chills down my spine when he wails out her only true desire: Equal rights, respect every day and love!Įach time I hear it, I realize how powerful this interlude in the song still is. The gifts and praise he was raining down on Aicha, just to earn himself a glance, may have started to make sense as I learned French at school.īut it wasn’t until I really looked into the lyrics, many years later, that I saw that, in the bridge of the song, Aicha herself speaks up and says she will have none of it.
I may have understood that it was about a lady named Aicha and maybe even that the singer though she was beautiful and desirable. I love the song for its catchy melody and general atmosphere but I think its meaning was kind of lost to me. Also included is a transliteration of the French and Arabic lyrics into the Roman alphabet so you can sing along if you like. I loved this song so much that I even added it to the soundtracks of my life-post I wrote many years ago. Aïcha () by Khaled Lyrics Translation in English Aïcha (Aisha) This page contains a translation into English of the lyrics to the Algerian raï song 'Aïcha' (), which was popularized by Khaled. One of the legends of the genre is Cheb Khaled, now considered to be the king of Raï music.Ĭheb Khaled’s song Aicha rose in the global charts when I was about 12 and it was absolutely love at first listen. A fun fact that I learnt recently is that Raï means “opinion”.
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