He left school early to work as an apprentice carpenter with his father in Bab El Oued until 1914.

Their collaboration results among other things by the presentation of the play Zaouadj Bouaklin on October 26, 1926, which marks the first appearance of Ksentini on stage.

The collaboration between the two men continues with an adaptations by Allalou of sequences from One Thousand and One Nights, where Rachid Ksentine obtained the first role.

Many of his songs are covers or interpolation composed from national heritage music tunes, for example with Ach men âr alikoum ya bnaïn ennas, drawn from Ach men âr Alikoum ya rdjal Meknes (a verse from a poem by Kaddour El Alamy).

[1] A TV series dedicated to the actor was cast in 2005, directed by Boualem Aďssaoui from a screenplay by Rachid Soufi.