Cheika Rabia has been perpetuating a heartfelt musical genre endangered in its original land, the trab (land, country), this 'raï of the roots' whose poetical verve has been remembered orally. To a backdrop of gasba (reed flute) and guella (a long percussion), her moving voice sings laments about thwarted love, dreams of elsewhere as an escape from solitude, moral and sexual distress, and the sometimes tragic fate of women betrayed by their emotions. Besides love stories that end up badly, there is also deep nostalgia and, at times, a glimmer of hope. In Rabia's heart and in her songs, there burns a fire that will never be smothered, that of her passion for a style both in and above fashion.