Raï (Arabic: رأي) is a form of folk music, originated in Oran, Algeria from Bedouin shepherds, mixed with Spanish, French, African and Arabic musical forms, which dates back to the 1930s and has been primarily evolved by women in the culture. The word raï is Arabic for “opinion.”

Singers of raï are called cheb (young) as opposed to sheikh (old) the name given to Chaabi music singers; the tradition arose in cities like Oran and elsewhere in Tlemcen, primarily among the poor. The word raï means literally opinion but is colloquially used as an interjection along the lines of oh, yeah! Traditionally sung by men, at the turn of the 20th century, female singers became common.

Rai - Radiotelevisione Italiana, known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane, is the Italian public service broadcaster. It operates three terrestrial television channels and three radio channels, in addition to several satellite and digital terrestrial offerings. Created as URI in 1924, it started television broadcasts on January 3, 1954. RAI was one of the 23 founding broadcasting organisations of the European Broadcasting Union in 1950.

A very controversial plan to partly privatise RAI, by selling 20% of the public broadcaster, was suspended in October 2005.

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Raí, full name Raí Souza Vieira de Oliveira (born May 15, 1965 in Ribeirão Preto) is a former Brazilian football (soccer) midfielder. He was part of the Brazil team which won 1994 FIFA World Cup. He also played for São Paulo FC and Paris Saint-Germain. Raí is also the younger brother of another legendary player, Sócrates.

In the first round match against Russia in the 1994 FIFA World Cup, he scored a penalty kick when Romário was knocked down in the goal area. Afterwards, he had to relinquish his captain role to Dunga due to some mistakes he made during the tournament.

He is arguably São Paulo FC's best player of all time, having won every kind of championship for the team during his tenure. He scored 128 goals for the Tricolors (São Paulo FC).

His position as a player in the team was as a withdrawn striker/offensive midfielder. He was the captain and the leader of the team. Rai (and Telê Santana coach) are considered to have played a leading role in São Paulo being the Brazilian team with the most international awards, surpassing even Santos.

However Rai never managed to make his mark at an international level as he did at club level. He was always slow in adapting himself to the team, except when he returned to São Paulo.

After playing for Paris Saint-Germain he came back to São Paulo in 1998 announcing that it was the place where he would end his career. The team was completely renewed, with new stars such as Denílson and França. The only remaining player from the 1992-1993 winning team was goalkeeper Rogério Ceni (who would still later help São Paulo to the 2005 Club World Championship). Once again, he led São Paulo to another regional championship although he played only in the finals, as he came back through the season..

The feat was repeated for the last time in 2000, with his last award, the same regional championship.

In 1997 when Brazilian tennis player Gustavo Kuerten won his first Roland Garros championship, Rai was in the stands cheering his countryman.