Macron visits famed Disco Maghreb record shop on Algeria trip.
French President Emmanuel Macron shakes hand with Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, at the presidential palace in Algiers, Algeria. Algerian Presidency/Handout via ReutersORAN, Algeria, Aug 27 - French President Emmanuel Macron visited a celebrated record shop in Algeria on Saturday, an apparent overture to young Algerians during a trip aimed at easing what he called the "painful" history shared by the two countries.
Macron was greeted by people at the Disco Maghreb shop in the city of Oran, a stronghold of Algeria's popular and often subversive Rai music in the 1980s and 1990s.Boualem Benhaoua, the owner of the shop, played an important role in promoting Rai stars including Cheb Khaled - often dubbed the king of Rai - and Cheb Hasni, a youth icon of the 1990s who was killed by Islamic militants opposed to his sentimental songs.
Macron said his visit to the store, was a "way to relay my respect, my admiration and my taste", calling it the epicentre of Rai music.
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