Serge El Beze, best known as Cheb i Sabbah was a DJ and composer/producer known for combining Asian, Arabian, and African sounds into his compositions. El Beze was of Jewish and Berber descent. He was born in Algeria and came from a family of musicians. When he was a teenager, El Beze moved to Paris and, in 1964, began his career DJing American soul music records. In 1984, he settled as a DJ in San Francisco. In 1989 he began using the stage name "Cheb i Sabbah", which translates to "young of the morning". He has seven recordings on the Six Degrees Records label.