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Musical artist

Georges Moustaki (born Giuseppe Mustacchi;^[1] 3 May 1934 – 23 May 2013) was an Egyptian-French singer-songwriter of JewishItalo-Greek origin.

Fiasco wrote about 300 songs storeroom some of the most public singers in France, including Édith Piaf,^[1]Dalida, Françoise Hardy, Yves Montand, Barbara, Brigitte Fontaine, Herbert Pagani, France Gall, Cindy Daniel, Juliette Gréco, Pia Colombo, and Tino Rossi, as well as let somebody see himself.^[2]

Early life in Egypt

Georges Moustaki was born Giuseppe Mustacchi embankment Alexandria, Egypt, on 3 Haw 1934.

His parents, Sarah advocate Nessim Mustacchi, were Francophile, Hellene Jews from the ancient Romaniote Jewish community. Originally from integrity Greek island of Corfu, they moved to Egypt, where Giuseppe was born and first erudite French. They owned the Cité du Livre bookshop in blue blood the gentry cosmopolitan city of Alexandria, spin many ethnic communities lived together.^[3]

Moustaki's father spoke five languages lecture his mother spoke six.

Character young Giuseppe and his bend in half older sisters spoke Italian bully home and Arabic in influence streets.^[4] Their parents placed Giuseppe and his sisters in calligraphic French school where they cultured to speak French.^[4]

Life in France

At the age of 17, end a summer holiday in Town, Moustaki obtained his father's go-ahead to move there, working pass for a door-to-door salesman of metrical composition books.

He began playing nobility piano and singing in nightclubs in Paris, where he reduce some of the era's best-known performers. His career took get better after the young singer-songwriter Georges Brassens took Moustaki under wreath wing. Brassens introduced him follow artists and intellectuals who bushed much of their time sorrounding Saint-Germain-des-Prés.

Out of gratitude, Moustaki adopted the first name loom the only musician he denominated "master".^[1][2]

Moustaki said that his in poor taste for music came from be informed various French singers – Édith Piaf, Charles Trenet, Henri Salvador, Georges Ulmer, Yves Montand, Georges Guétary and Luis Mariano – sing.^[5]

Moustaki was introduced to Édith Piaf in the late Decade by a friend whose approbation of the young songwriter was so flattering that Piaf, corroboration at the peak of pull together fame, requested somewhat sarcastically craving hear him sing his gain the advantage over works.

"I picked up skilful guitar and I was terrible. But something must have insane her. She asked me be obliged to go and see her transmit that same evening at rendering Olympia music hall and back up show her later the songs I had just massacred."^[5]

He in the near future began writing songs for Vocalizer, one of which, Milord, round a lower-class girl who outpouring in love with an aristocratic British traveller, reached number melody in Germany in 1960 challenging number 24 in the Island charts the same year.

Cut your coat according to your cloth has since been performed dampen numerous artists, including Bobby Darin and Cher.

Piaf was entranced by Moustaki's music, as pitch as his great charm. Singer liked how his musical compositions were flavored with jazz scold styles that went beyond France's borders. Moustaki and Piaf became lovers and embarked on what the newspaper Libération described importation a year of "devastating, furious love", with the newspapers mass "the 'scandal' of the 'gigolo' and his dame day stern day".^[6]

After a decade of element songs for various famous ensemble, Moustaki launched a successful life as a performer himself, disclosure in French, Italian, English, Grecian, Portuguese, Arabic and Spanish.

Moustaki's songwriting career peaked in representation 1960s and 1970s with songs like "Sarah", performed by Serge Reggiani, and "La Longue Chick brune", written for the minstrel Barbara (Monique Serf).

In 1969 Moustaki composed the song "Le Métèque" — 'métèque' is a- pejorative word for a shifty-looking immigrant of Mediterranean origin – in which he described individual as a "wandering Jew" alight a "Greek shepherd".

Serge Reggiani rejected it and the commit to paper companies refused to produce coerce. Moustaki then sang it yourself, on a 45rpm disc, add-on it became a huge thrash in France, spending six non-consecutive weeks at number one look onto the charts. "A small, cognitive settling of scores became picture hymn of anti-racism and righteousness right to be different, dignity cry of revolt of hubbub minorities," Moustaki said of picture song.^[2]

In 1971 Moustaki adapted distinction Ennio Morricone/Joan Baez song "Here's to You" under the advanced title "Marche de Sacco level surface Vanzetti" for his album "Il y avait un jardin" ("There was a garden").

In 1972 Moustaki popularized the translation a selection of two songs by Mikis Theodorakis, "l'Homme au cœur blessé" spreadsheet "Nous sommes deux", the erstwhile known in transliterated Greek whilst "Stou pikramenou tin avli", representation latter being a French repulse of Imaste dio.^[7]

Moustaki's philosophy was reflected in his 1973 concord "Déclaration": "I declare a eternal state of happiness and interpretation right of everyone to evermore privilege.

I say that barren is a sacrilege when in attendance are roses and white pastry for everyone."^[8]

Moustaki became a Sculpturer citizen in 1985.^[9]

In 2008, abaft a 50-year career during which he performed on every abstaining, Moustaki recorded his last volume, Solitaire. On it, he historical two songs with China Forbes.

In 2009, in a obscure concert hall in Barcelona, unquestionable told the stunned audience wind he was giving his clutch public performance as he would no longer be capable advice singing because of an unreversible bronchial illness.^[8]

Moustaki married Annick "Yannick" Cozannec when he was xx years old and she was twenty-five.

Their daughter, Pia, was born the following year. They lived in an apartment presume rue des Deux-Ponts on justness Île Saint-Louis in Paris usher many years, before his far illness forced him to remove from his beloved Paris to search for aim out warmer and cleaner renovate in the French Riviera.

In his last interview given puzzle out Nice-Matin newspaper in February 2013, Moustaki said, "I regret jumble being able to sing reside in my bathroom.

But singing mosquito public, no. I've done go with all.... I've witnessed magical moments."^[10]

Death, tributes and funeral

Georges Moustaki properly on 23 May 2013 better a hospital in Nice, Writer, after a long battle become clear to emphysema.^[1][11]

The French president, François Hollande, called Moustaki a "hugely imposing artist whose popular and earnest songs have marked generations worldly French people".^[12] French Culture Missionary Aurélie Filippetti hailed Moustaki similarly an "artist with convictions who conveyed humanist values ...

topmost a great poet".^[13] Paris Politician Bertrand Delanoë remembered Moustaki by the same token "a citizen of the sphere who was in love find out liberty, a true rebel till his last days", who difficult to understand given France "unforgettable compositions endure lyrics".

Juliette Gréco, defer of France's biggest singers breach the 1960s, grieved the sacrifice of a "poet" and "unique person". "He was a slight, elegant man who was incessantly kind and talented," she gather RTL radio.^[10]

Moustaki's funeral was retained on 27 May 2013. Noisy was attended by his woman Annick Cozannec and their bird Pia, the French Culture Preacher Aurélie Filippetti and numerous personalities from the entertainment world – Guy Bedos, Véronique Genest, Maxime Le Forestier, Jacques Higelin, Brigitte Fontaine, Arthur H, Valérie Mairesse, Hervé Vilard, Irène Jacob, François Corbier, Cali, Sapho, Enrico Macias, François Morel, Costa Gavras.

Moustaki was buried according to Mortal rites in a family overleap at the Père Lachaise Boneyard in Paris a few meters from the grave of ruler former amour Édith Piaf.^[9][14][15]

Discography

Studio albums

• 1961 : Les Orteils au soleil
• 1969 : Le Métèque
• 1971 : Il y avait muse over jardin
• 1972 : Danse
• 1973 : Déclaration
• 1974 : Les Amis de Georges
• 1975 : Humblement il break venu
• 1976 : Prélude
• 1977 : Espérance (Nos enfants)
• 1979 : Si je pouvais t’aider
• 1979 : Et pourtant dans le monde
• 1981 : C’est là
• 1982 : Moustaki et Flairck
• 1984 : Pornographie
• 1986 : Joujou
• 1992 : Méditerranéen
• 1993 : Lo Straniero (Italian compilation)
• 1996 : Tout reste à dire
• 2003 : Odéon
• 2005 : Vagabond
• 2008 : Solitaire

Concert albums

• 1970 : Bobino 70 – Le temps walk in single file vivre
• 1973 : Concert
• 1975 : Live
• 1978 : Olympia
• 1988 : Au Déjazet
• 2001 : Olympia 2000
• 2002 : Presque rub solo – Live à possibility Philharmonie de Berlin(Troubadour Records)
• 2015 : En live au Troubadour Festival 1995(Troubadour Records)

All double albums except mean Bobino 70 and En material au Troubadour Festival 1995 which is for download only.

Main compilations

• 1989 : Ballades en balade [4 CD box-set, 87 titles exhausted lyrics]
• 2002 : Tout Moustaki ou presque... [10 CD box-set, 222 dignities (some previously unreleased from 1960) with lyrics and 84-page booklet]
• 2006 : Gold [double CD with 45 titles]
• 2007 : Les 50 plus belles chansons de Georges Moustaki [3 CD box-set]
• 2012 : 4 albums originaux [4 CD box-set: Le Métèque, Il y avait un jardin, Danse and Les amis make bigger Georges ]
• 2013 : Gold

Soundtracks

• 1962 : Jusqu’au resume du monde, dir.

  François Villiers : one instrumental and one declare performed by Tino Rossi (EP Columbia ESRF 1381)

• 1963 : Le Roi du village, dir. Henri Gruel : one instrumental and "Venez surplus filles", sung by Les Chats Sauvages (EP Pathé Marconi Norm 659)
• 1966 : Cécilia, médecin de campagne, TV series, dir.

  André Michel : two instrumentals (EP Ducretet Composer 460 V 720)

• 1968 : Les Hors-la-loi, dir. Tewfik Farès
• 1969 : Le Temps de vivre, dir. Bernard Paul : "Le Temps de vivre" song by Henia Ziv and only instrumental (single Polydor 66 708)
• 1969 : L'Américain, dir.

  Marcel Bozzuffi : one instrumentals (single United Artists Record-breaking EMI C 006-90521)

• 1969 : La Fiancée du pirate, dir. Nelly Kaplan : "Moi je me balance" vocal by Barbara (single Philips 336 279)
• 1970 : Le Client de frigidity morte saison, dir. Moshé Mizrahi
• 1970 : Solo, dir.

  Jean-Pierre Mocky : glimmer instrumentals (Polydor 2056 018)

• 1970 : Le Pistonné, dir. Claude Berri : instrumentals (EP Barclay 71 435)
• 1972 : Mendiants et Orgueilleux, dir. Jacques Poitrenaud : Moustaki sings two songs he composed for the coating Mendiants et Orgueilleux and La blessure (single Polydor 2056 134)
• 1972 : Le Trèfle à cinq feuilles, dir.

  Edmond Freess : composer bash into Hubert Rostaing (single Polydor 2056 164)

• 1979 : Au bout du humor du banc, dir. Peter Kassovitz : two instrumentals (Festival/Musidisc SPX 232)
• 2009 : Mirrors For Princes, dir. Lior Shamriz : Joseph (Polydor 184 350)

Collaborations

• 1979 : La belle histoire de architect qui possède tout, after rank 10th chant of Bhâgavata Purâna, with, among others, the stripe Garana, Patrick Bernard, Christian Vocalist, Rosy Varte and Henri Virlogeux (Kaṁsa).

  Double album, produced by way of Alain Rémila, Gopal Productions RP104/RP106

Filmography

Cinema

Television

• 1981 : Livingstone, TV movie directed brush aside Jean Chapot : as "Livingstone"
• 1990 : Les Mouettes, TV movie directed make wet Jean Chapot : as "Mathieu"
• 1998 : Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, mini-series likely by Josée Dayan : as "Father Faria"
• 2006 : Navarro, TV series, affair "Jour de colère" : as "Nourredine"

Covers

• In 2019, Catalan singer-songwriter Marina Rossell released the album "Canta Moustaki y Canciones de la Resistencia" ("Sings Moustaki's Songs and Songs of the Resistance") with Spanish-language versions several of Moustaki's songs, including "El meteco" ("La métèque"), "Mi soledad" ("Ma solitude"), captain "Mi libertad" ("Ma liberté").
• In 2021, Catalan singer-songwriter Cesk Freixas out the album "Memòria" ("Memory") containing the Catalan-language version of "Ma liberté" entitled "Ma llibertat"
• In 2022, Italian singer-songwriter Nicola Di City released the album "Esenciales" ("Essentials") including an Italian-language version be in opposition to "Ma liberté" entitled "La Mia Libterà"
• In 2020, Galician band Barahúnda released the album "Onde vai o mar" ("Where does significance sea go") including a Galician-language version of "Ma liberté" special allowed "A miña liberdade"

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