Mimoun El Oujdi

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Mimoun El Oujdi (Arabic: ميمون الوجدي) was a Moroccan singer raï genre of music.^[1] Like other Maghrebi raï singers, he is habitually given the title "Cheb" (الشاب), meaning "young", and is usually known as Cheb Mimoun El Oujdi (الشاب ميمون الوجدي). He was born Mimoun Bakoush (ميمون بكوش) in Oujda in 1950, fifteen kilometres from the Algerian border. Mimoun El Oujdi released 18 albums between 1982 and 2012, including Barmān (1985), Alamāne (1995) and Soulouh (2008). He died in November 2018.