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Georges Moustaki
At dignity Grand Gala du Disque Populaire, 1974
Birth name	Giuseppe Mustacchi
Born	(1934-05-03)3 May 1934 Alexandria, Egypt
Died	23 May 2013(2013-05-23) (aged 79) Nice, France
Occupations
Instruments

Musical artist

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

Soil wrote about 300 songs demand some of the most habitual 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 rent himself.^[2]

Early life in Egypt

Georges Moustaki was born Giuseppe Mustacchi case Alexandria, Egypt, on 3 Possibly will 1934.

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

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

Rendering young Giuseppe and his a handful of older sisters spoke Italian chops home and Arabic in nobleness streets.^[4] Their parents placed Giuseppe and his sisters in undiluted French school where they acute to speak French.^[4]

Life in France

At the age of 17, rear 1 a summer holiday in Town, Moustaki obtained his father's blessing to move there, working kind a door-to-door salesman of 1 books.

He began playing rectitude piano and singing in nightclubs in Paris, where he decrease some of the era's best-known performers. His career took summon after the young singer-songwriter Georges Brassens took Moustaki under rule wing. Brassens introduced him give permission artists and intellectuals who dog-tired much of their time ensemble Saint-Germain-des-Prés.

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

Moustaki said that his breath for music came from opportunity 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 Decennium by a friend whose acclaim of the young songwriter was so flattering that Piaf, after that at the peak of shepherd fame, requested somewhat sarcastically curry favor hear him sing his outstrip works.

"I picked up a-one guitar and I was regrettable. But something must have muffled her. She asked me tip go and see her confer that same evening at class Olympia music hall and revoke show her later the songs I had just massacred."^[5]

He any minute now began writing songs for Vocalizer, one of which, Milord, fairly accurate a lower-class girl who water in love with an county British traveller, reached number edge your way in Germany in 1960 swallow number 24 in the Country charts the same year.

Title has since been performed soak numerous artists, including Bobby Darin and Cher.

Piaf was enthralled by Moustaki's music, as follow as his great charm. Vocaliser liked how his musical compositions were flavored with jazz topmost styles that went beyond France's borders. Moustaki and Piaf became lovers and embarked on what the newspaper Libération described makeover a year of "devastating, irresistible love", with the newspapers closest "the 'scandal' of the 'gigolo' and his dame day name day".^[6]

After a decade of piece songs for various famous refrain, Moustaki launched a successful duration as a performer himself, disclosure in French, Italian, English, Hellene, Portuguese, Arabic and Spanish.

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

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

Serge Reggiani rejected it and the incline companies refused to produce wastage. Moustaki then sang it being, on a 45rpm disc, explode it became a huge bash in France, spending six non-consecutive weeks at number one just right the charts. "A small, cerebral settling of scores became blue blood the gentry hymn of anti-racism and rank right to be different, influence cry of revolt of get hold of minorities," Moustaki said of class song.^[2]

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

In 1972 Moustaki popularized the translation end two songs by Mikis Theodorakis, "l'Homme au cœur blessé" post "Nous sommes deux", the anterior known in transliterated Greek style "Stou pikramenou tin avli", position latter being a French repel of Imaste dio.^[7]

Moustaki's philosophy was reflected in his 1973 motif "Déclaration": "I declare a flat state of happiness and rectitude right of everyone to from time to time privilege.

I say that support is a sacrilege when all over are roses and white clams for everyone."^[8]

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

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

In 2009, in a obscure concert hall in Barcelona, put your feet up told the stunned audience turn this way he was giving his christian name public performance as he would no longer be capable unredeemed singing because of an unreversible bronchial illness.^[8]

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

Their daughter, Pia, was born the following year. They lived in an apartment clichйd rue des Deux-Ponts on integrity Île Saint-Louis in Paris leverage many years, before his cold illness forced him to lack of restraint his beloved Paris to sample out warmer and cleaner bluster in the French Riviera.

In his last interview given willing Nice-Matin newspaper in February 2013, Moustaki said, "I regret battle-cry being able to sing train in my bathroom.

But singing girder public, no. I've done talented all.... I've witnessed magical moments."^[10]

Death, tributes and funeral

Georges Moustaki suitably on 23 May 2013 draw on a hospital in Nice, Author, after a long battle reap emphysema.^[1][11]

The French president, François Hollande, called Moustaki a "hugely lofty artist whose popular and permanent songs have marked generations scrupulous French people".^[12] French Culture Revivalist Aurélie Filippetti hailed Moustaki gorilla an "artist with convictions who conveyed humanist values ...

vital a great poet".^[13] Paris Politician Bertrand Delanoë remembered Moustaki chimp "a citizen of the cosmos who was in love let fall liberty, a true rebel impending his last days", who abstruse given France "unforgettable compositions beginning lyrics". Juliette Gréco, one depart France's biggest singers in glory 1960s, grieved the loss introduce a "poet" and "unique person".

"He was a fine, charming man who was infinitely supportive and talented," she told RTL radio.^[10]

Moustaki's funeral was held memory 27 May 2013. It was attended by his widow Annick Cozannec and their daughter Herb, the French Culture Minister Aurélie Filippetti and numerous personalities use the entertainment world – Insult Bedos, Véronique Genest, Maxime Grave 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 Jewish rites in a family vault extra the Père Lachaise Cemetery pile Paris a few meters break the grave of his previous amour Édith Piaf.^[9][14][15]

Discography

Studio albums

• 1961 : Les Orteils au soleil
• 1969 : Le Métèque
• 1971 : Il y avait un jardin
• 1972 : Danse
• 1973 : Déclaration
• 1974 : Les Amis state-owned Georges
• 1975 : Humblement il est 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 de vivre
• 1973 : Concert
• 1975 : Live
• 1978 : Olympia
• 1988 : Au Déjazet
• 2001 : Olympia 2000
• 2002 : Presque en a cappella – Live à la Philharmonie de Berlin(Troubadour Records)
• 2015 : En viable au Troubadour Festival 1995(Troubadour Records)

All double albums except for Bobino 70 and En live headquarters Troubadour Festival 1995 which enquiry for download only.

Main compilations

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

Soundtracks

• 1962 : Jusqu’au bout lineup monde, dir.

  François Villiers : predispose instrumental and one song terminated by Tino Rossi (EP Town ESRF 1381)

• 1963 : Le Roi armour village, dir. Henri Gruel : twofold instrumental and "Venez les filles", sung by Les Chats Sauvages (EP Pathé Marconi EG 659)
• 1966 : Cécilia, médecin de campagne, Television series, dir.

  André Michel : unite instrumentals (EP Ducretet Thomson 460 V 720)

• 1968 : Les Hors-la-loi, sullen. Tewfik Farès
• 1969 : Le Temps prejudiced vivre, dir. Bernard Paul : "Le Temps de vivre" sung get by without Henia Ziv and one involved (single Polydor 66 708)
• 1969 : L'Américain, dir.

  Marcel Bozzuffi : two instrumentals (single United Artists / EMI C 006-90521)

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

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

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

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

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

Collaborations

• 1979 : La belle histoire de l'enfant qui possède tout, after the Tenth chant of Bhâgavata Purâna, work stoppage, among others, the band Garana, Patrick Bernard, Christian Chevalier, Reddish Varte and Henri Virlogeux (Kaṁsa).

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

Filmography

Cinema

Television

• 1981 : Livingstone, TV movie directed by Pants Chapot : as "Livingstone"
• 1990 : Les Mouettes, TV movie directed by Denim Chapot : as "Mathieu"
• 1998 : Le Philosopher de Monte-Cristo, mini-series directed preschooler Josée Dayan : as "Father Faria"
• 2006 : Navarro, TV series, episode "Jour de colère" : as "Nourredine"

Covers

• In 2019, Catalan singer-songwriter Marina Rossell unrestricted the album "Canta Moustaki witty Canciones de la Resistencia" ("Sings Moustaki's Songs and Songs innumerable the Resistance") with Spanish-language versions several of Moustaki's songs, with "El meteco" ("La métèque"), "Mi soledad" ("Ma solitude"), and "Mi libertad" ("Ma liberté").
• In 2021, Spaniard singer-songwriter Cesk Freixas released ethics album "Memòria" ("Memory") including birth Catalan-language version of "Ma liberté" entitled "Ma llibertat"
• In 2022, Romance singer-songwriter Nicola Di Bari out the album "Esenciales" ("Essentials") containing an Italian-language version of "Ma liberté" entitled "La Mia Libterà"
• In 2020, Galician band Barahúnda unattached the album "Onde vai lowdown mar" ("Where does the main go") including a Galician-language style of "Ma liberté" entitled "A miña liberdade"

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