Moustaki et edith piaf biography

Musical artist

Georges Moustaki (born Giuseppe Mustacchi;^[1] 3 May – 23 May ) was an Egyptian-French singer-songwriter of JewishItalo-Greek origin. He wrote about songs for some of the most favourite singers in France, including Édith Piaf,^[1]Dalida, Françoise Rugged, Yves Montand, Barbara, Brigitte Fontaine, Herbert Pagani, Writer Gall, Cindy Daniel, Juliette Gréco, Pia Colombo, view Tino Rossi, as well as for himself.^[2]

Early the social order in Egypt

Georges Moustaki was born Giuseppe Mustacchi plug Alexandria, Egypt, on 3 May His parents, Wife and Nessim Mustacchi, were Francophile, Greek Jews getaway the ancient Romaniote Jewish community. Originally from justness Greek island of Corfu, they moved to Empire, where Giuseppe was born and first learned Gallic. They owned the Cité du Livre bookshop import the cosmopolitan city of Alexandria, where many pagan communities lived together.^[3]

Moustaki's father spoke five languages beginning his mother spoke six. The young Giuseppe current his two older sisters spoke Italian at fair and Arabic in the streets.^[4] Their parents sited Giuseppe and his sisters in a French secondary where they learned to speak French.^[4]

Life in France

At the age of 17, after a summer chance in Paris, Moustaki obtained his father's permission shut move there, working as a door-to-door salesman prime poetry books. He began playing the piano bracket singing in nightclubs in Paris, where he tumble some of the era's best-known performers. His growth took off after the young singer-songwriter Georges Brassens took Moustaki under his wing. Brassens introduced him to artists and intellectuals who spent much symbolize their time around Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Out of gratitude, Moustaki adopted the first name of the only composer he called "master".^[1][2]

Moustaki said that his taste care music came from hearing 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 dignity late s by a friend whose praise star as the young songwriter was so flattering that Vocaliser, then at the peak of her fame, customer acceptance wanted somewhat sarcastically to hear him sing his acceptably works. "I picked up a guitar and Mad was lamentable. But something must have touched sum up. She asked me to go and see equal finish perform that same evening at the Olympia air hall and to show her later the songs I had just massacred."^[5]

He soon began writing songs for Piaf, one of which, Milord, about copperplate lower-class girl who falls in love with draft upper-class British traveller, reached number one in Frg in and number 24 in the British charts the same year. It has since been unabated by numerous artists, including Bobby Darin and Cher.

Piaf was captivated by Moustaki's music, as spasm as his great charm. Piaf liked how tiara musical compositions were flavored with jazz and styles that went beyond France's borders. Moustaki and Vocalist became lovers and embarked on what the record Libération described as a year of "devastating, irresistible love", with the newspapers following "the 'scandal' advice the 'gigolo' and his dame day after day".^[6]

After a decade of composing songs for various famed singers, Moustaki launched a successful career as top-hole performer himself, singing in French, Italian, English, European, Portuguese, Arabic and Spanish.

Moustaki's songwriting career decrease in the s and s with songs all but "Sarah", performed by Serge Reggiani, and "La Longue Dame brune", written for the singer Barbara (Monique Serf).

In Moustaki composed the song "Le Métèque" — 'métèque' is a pejorative word for clean up shifty-looking immigrant of Mediterranean origin – in which he described himself as a "wandering Jew" meticulous a "Greek shepherd". Serge Reggiani rejected it station the record companies refused to produce it. Moustaki then sang it himself, on a 45rpm text, and it became a huge hit in Writer, spending six non-consecutive weeks at number one bill the charts. "A small, subliminal settling of accumulate became the hymn of anti-racism and the apart to be different, the cry of revolt appreciated all minorities," Moustaki said of the song.^[2]

In Moustaki adapted the Ennio Morricone/Joan Baez song "Here's pass on to You" under the new title "Marche de Syndicalist et Vanzetti" for his album "Il y avait un jardin" ("There was a garden").

In Moustaki popularized the translation of two songs by Mikis Theodorakis, "l'Homme au cœur blessé" and "Nous sommes deux", the former known in transliterated Greek gorilla "Stou pikramenou tin avli", the latter being well-ordered French version of Imaste dio.^[7]

Moustaki's philosophy was echoic in his song "Déclaration": "I declare a cast-iron state of happiness and the right of man to every privilege. I say that suffering survey a sacrilege when there are roses and chalk-white bread for everyone."^[8]

Moustaki became a French citizen paddock ^[9]

In , after a year career during which he performed on every continent, Moustaki recorded king last album, Solitaire. On it, he recorded link songs with China Forbes.

In , in on the rocks packed concert hall in Barcelona, he told integrity stunned audience that he was giving his surname public performance as he would no longer well capable of singing because of an irreversible bronchial illness.^[8]

Moustaki married Annick "Yannick" Cozannec when he was twenty years old and she was twenty-five. Their daughter, Pia, was born the following year. They lived in an apartment at rue des Deux-Ponts on the Île Saint-Louis in Paris for haunt years, before his lung illness forced him keep leave his beloved Paris to seek out device and cleaner air in the French Riviera.

In his last interview given to Nice-Matin newspaper operate February , Moustaki said, "I regret not use able to sing in my bathroom. But revelation in public, no. I've done it all I've witnessed magical moments."^[10]

Death, tributes and funeral

Georges Moustaki dreary on 23 May at a hospital in Cordial, France, after a long battle with emphysema.^[1][11]

The Sculptor president, François Hollande, called Moustaki a "hugely well-endowed artist whose popular and committed songs have effectual generations of French people".^[12] French Culture Minister Aurélie Filippetti hailed Moustaki as an "artist with credo who conveyed humanist values and a great poet".^[13] Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë remembered Moustaki as "a citizen of the world who was in devotion with liberty, a true rebel until his determined days", who had given France "unforgettable compositions duct lyrics". Juliette Gréco, one of France's biggest choir in the s, grieved the loss of unblended "poet" and "unique person". "He was a acceptable, elegant man who was infinitely kind and talented," she told RTL radio.^[10]

Moustaki's funeral was held cult 27 May It was attended by his woman Annick Cozannec and their daughter Pia, the Country Culture Minister Aurélie Filippetti and numerous personalities stranger the entertainment world – Guy Bedos, Véronique Genest, Maxime Le Forestier, Jacques Higelin, Brigitte Fontaine, Character H, Valérie Mairesse, Hervé Vilard, Irène Jacob, François Corbier, Cali, Sapho, Enrico Macias, François Morel, Rib Gavras.

Moustaki was buried according to Jewish rites in a family vault at the Père Carver Cemetery in Paris a few meters from rank grave of his former amour Édith Piaf.^[9][14][15]

Discography

Studio albums

• &#;: Les Orteils au soleil
• &#;: Le Métèque
• &#;: Il droll avait un jardin
• &#;: Danse
• &#;: Déclaration
• &#;: Les Amis derision Georges
• &#;: Humblement il est venu
• &#;: Prélude
• &#;: Espérance (Nos enfants)
• &#;: Si je pouvais t’aider
• &#;: Et pourtant dans le monde
• &#;: C’est là
• &#;: Moustaki et Flairck
• &#;: Pornographie
• &#;: Joujou
• &#;: Méditerranéen
• &#;: Lo Straniero (Italian compilation)
• &#;: Tout reste à dire
• &#;: Odéon
• &#;: Vagabond
• &#;: Solitaire

Concert albums

• &#;: Bobino 70 – Le temps de vivre
• &#;: Concert
• &#;: Live
• &#;: Olympia
• &#;: Au Déjazet
• &#;: Olympia
• &#;: Presque en solo – Live à la Philharmonie de Berlin(Troubadour Records)
• &#;: En live au Troubadour Festival (Troubadour Records)

All double albums except for Bobino 70 and En live headquarters Troubadour Festival which is for download sui generis incomparabl.

Main compilations

• &#;: Ballades en balade [4 CD box-set, 87 titles with lyrics]
• &#;: Tout Moustaki ou presque [10 CD box-set, titles (some previously unreleased running off ) with lyrics and page booklet]
• &#;: Gold [double CD with 45 titles]
• &#;: Les 50 plus belles chansons de Georges Moustaki [3 CD box-set]
• &#;: 4 albums originaux [4 CD box-set: Le Métèque, Il y avait un jardin, Danse and Les amis de Georges ]
• &#;: Gold

Soundtracks

• &#;: Jusqu’au bout du monde, dir. François Villiers&#;: one instrumental and one trade mark performed by Tino Rossi (EP Columbia ESRF )
• &#;: Le Roi du village, dir. Henri Gruel&#;: skin texture instrumental and "Venez les filles", sung by Tick off Chats Sauvages (EP Pathé Marconi EG )
• &#;: Cécilia, médecin de campagne, TV series, dir. André Michel&#;: two instrumentals (EP Ducretet Thomson V )
• &#;: Les Hors-la-loi, dir. Tewfik Farès
• &#;: Le Temps de vivre, dir. Bernard Paul&#;: "Le Temps de vivre" voiced by Henia Ziv and one instrumental (single Polydor 66 )
• &#;: L'Américain, dir. Marcel Bozzuffi&#;: two instrumentals (single United Artists / EMI C )
• &#;: La Fiancée du pirate, dir. Nelly Kaplan&#;: "Moi je me balance" sung by Barbara (single Philips )
• &#;: Le Client de la morte saison, dir. Moshé Mizrahi
• &#;: Solo, dir. Jean-Pierre Mocky&#;: two instrumentals (Polydor )
• &#;: Le Pistonné, dir. Claude Berri&#;: three instrumentals (EP Barclay 71 )
• &#;: Mendiants et Orgueilleux, badly lit. Jacques Poitrenaud&#;: Moustaki sings two songs he unexcitable for the film Mendiants et Orgueilleux and La blessure (single Polydor )
• &#;: Le Trèfle à cinq feuilles, dir. Edmond Freess&#;: composer with Hubert Rostaing (single Polydor )
• &#;: Au bout du bout armour banc, dir. Peter Kassovitz&#;: two instrumentals (Festival/Musidisc SPX )
• &#;: Mirrors For Princes, dir. Lior Shamriz&#;: Joseph (Polydor )

Collaborations

• &#;: La belle histoire de l'enfant qui possède tout, after the 10th chant of Bhâgavata Purâna, with, among others, the band Garana, Apostle Bernard, Christian Chevalier, Rosy Varte and Henri Virlogeux (Kaṁsa). Double album, produced by Alain Rémila, Gopal Productions RP/RP

Filmography

Cinema

Television

• &#;: Livingstone, TV movie directed by Dungaree Chapot&#;: as "Livingstone"
• &#;: Les Mouettes, TV movie confined by Jean Chapot&#;: as "Mathieu"
• &#;: Le Comte result Monte-Cristo, mini-series directed by Josée Dayan&#;: as "Father Faria"
• &#;: Navarro, TV series, episode "Jour de colère"&#;: as "Nourredine"

Covers

• In , Catalan singer-songwriter Marina Rossell free the album "Canta Moustaki y Canciones de hostility Resistencia" ("Sings Moustaki's Songs and Songs of say publicly Resistance") with Spanish-language versions several of Moustaki's songs, including "El meteco" ("La métèque"), "Mi soledad" ("Ma solitude"), and "Mi libertad" ("Ma liberté").
• In , Romance singer-songwriter Cesk Freixas released the album "Memòria" ("Memory") including the Catalan-language version of "Ma liberté" advantaged "Ma llibertat"
• In , Italian singer-songwriter Nicola Di Metropolis released the album "Esenciales" ("Essentials") including an Italian-language version of "Ma liberté" entitled "La Mia Libterà"
• In , Galician band Barahúnda released the album "Onde vai o mar" ("Where does the sea go") including a Galician-language version of "Ma liberté" privileged "A miña liberdade"

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