Mahdi khene was born in Algiers. At the age of one, he moved with his family to New York City. He started playing the guitar at the age of 14. He attributes his song writing style to having been a self-taught musician. A troubadour at heart, he has been traveling from place to place, spending time in Maryland, D.C, Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, and Virginia only to make a full circle and find himself back in New York. He now lives in Manhattan, where he performs his latest Folk/Rock albums and composes original scores for films and documentaries. His style is compared to that of J.J. Cale, Lou Reed, and Bob Dylan. Here is a recent review of his latest album, "A Little Time" “Mahdi Khene’s music is fresh but grounded in the best kind of roots. I never expected to hear echoes of Blonde on Blonde and the Yardbirds in 2019, but he pulls it off easily: ecstatic guitars and granular melodies threaded together without showiness. Good stuff!” — Van Gosse, Former writer of Rock’s Back Pages & The Village Voice <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Mahdi+Khene">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.