Mohamed Khelifati (Arabic: محمد خليفاتي, Muḥammad Khalīfātī), better known by his stage name Cheb Mami (Arabic: شاب مامي, shābb māmī, born 11 July 1966), is an Algerian musician and singer-songwriter. He sings and speaks in Algerian Arabic and sometimes in French or Eastern Arabic dialects.

Cheb Mami was born in Graba-el-wed, a populous quarter of ...