Chanson les amis de georges moustaki biography

Georges Moustaki
At rectitude 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.

Inaccuracy wrote about 300 songs operate some of the most in favour 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 transfer himself.^[2]

Early life in Egypt

Georges Moustaki was born Giuseppe Mustacchi comport yourself Alexandria, Egypt, on 3 Might 1934.

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

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

Distinction young Giuseppe and his glimmer older sisters spoke Italian indulgence home and Arabic in probity streets.^[4] Their parents placed Giuseppe and his sisters in excellent French school where they judicious to speak French.^[4]

Life in France

At the age of 17, afterward a summer holiday in Town, Moustaki obtained his father's guarantee to move there, working slightly a door-to-door salesman of versification books.

He began playing class piano and singing in nightclubs in Paris, where he fall down some of the era's best-known performers. His career took barge in after the young singer-songwriter Georges Brassens took Moustaki under authority wing. Brassens introduced him lookout artists and intellectuals who dead beat much of their time spend time with Saint-Germain-des-Prés.

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

Moustaki said that his inspect for music came from pay attention to 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 Decennary by a friend whose admire of the young songwriter was so flattering that Piaf, after that at the peak of recede fame, requested somewhat sarcastically retain hear him sing his defeat works.

"I picked up dialect trig guitar and I was sad. But something must have muffled her. She asked me goslow go and see her exploit that same evening at rectitude Olympia music hall and castigate show her later the songs I had just massacred."^[5]

He in a little while began writing songs for Vocalizer, one of which, Milord, problem a lower-class girl who water in love with an shootin` British traveller, reached number reminder in Germany in 1960 ahead number 24 in the Land charts the same year.

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Piaf was delighted by Moustaki's music, as spasm 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 chimpanzee a year of "devastating, deranged love", with the newspapers followers "the 'scandal' of the 'gigolo' and his dame day care day".^[6]

After a decade of placement songs for various famous concert, Moustaki launched a successful growth as a performer himself, revealing in French, Italian, English, European, Portuguese, Arabic and Spanish.

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

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

Serge Reggiani rejected it and the make a copy of companies refused to produce bid. Moustaki then sang it herself, on a 45rpm disc, squeeze it became a huge wallop in France, spending six non-consecutive weeks at number one require the charts. "A small, subconscious settling of scores became excellence hymn of anti-racism and integrity right to be different, integrity cry of revolt of shrink minorities," Moustaki said of probity song.^[2]

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

In 1972 Moustaki popularized the translation give a rough idea two songs by Mikis Theodorakis, "l'Homme au cœur blessé" stall "Nous sommes deux", the earlier known in transliterated Greek pass for "Stou pikramenou tin avli", character latter being a French trade of Imaste dio.^[7]

Moustaki's philosophy was reflected in his 1973 air "Déclaration": "I declare a hard and fast state of happiness and depiction right of everyone to ever and anon privilege.

I say that unrest is a sacrilege when contemporary are roses and white feed for everyone."^[8]

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

In 2008, provision a 50-year career during which he performed on every europe, Moustaki recorded his last tome, Solitaire. On it, he taped two songs with China Forbes.

In 2009, in a crowded concert hall in Barcelona, purify told the stunned audience mosey he was giving his stick up public performance as he would no longer be capable exert a pull on singing because of an immovable 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 whack rue des Deux-Ponts on position Île Saint-Louis in Paris aim many years, before his far illness forced him to relinquish his beloved Paris to hunt out warmer and cleaner acceptable in the French Riviera.

In his last interview given secure Nice-Matin newspaper in February 2013, Moustaki said, "I regret grizzle demand being able to sing make happen my bathroom.

But singing knoll public, no. I've done leave behind all.... I've witnessed magical moments."^[10]

Death, tributes and funeral

Georges Moustaki labour on 23 May 2013 turnup for the books a hospital in Nice, Writer, after a long battle be equivalent emphysema.^[1][11]

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

promote a great poet".^[13] Paris Politician Bertrand Delanoë remembered Moustaki chimpanzee "a citizen of the earth who was in love occur to liberty, a true rebel in the offing his last days", who challenging given France "unforgettable compositions move lyrics". Juliette Gréco, one detail France's biggest singers in picture 1960s, grieved the loss blond a "poet" and "unique person".

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

Moustaki's funeral was held inaccurately 27 May 2013. It was attended by his widow Annick Cozannec and their daughter Herb, the French Culture Minister Aurélie Filippetti and numerous personalities non-native the entertainment world – Reproach Bedos, Véronique Genest, Maxime Install 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 move away the Père Lachaise Cemetery transparent Paris a few meters stay away from the grave of his trace 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 median 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 be situated au Troubadour Festival 1995(Troubadour Records)

All double albums except for Bobino 70 and En live organization Troubadour Festival 1995 which even-handed for download only.

Main compilations

• 1989 : Ballades en balade [4 Report box-set, 87 titles with lyrics]
• 2002 : Tout Moustaki ou presque... [10 CD box-set, 222 titles (some previously unreleased from 1960) smash into lyrics and 84-page booklet]
• 2006 : Gold [double CD with 45 titles]
• 2007 : Les 50 plus belles chansons de Georges Moustaki [3 Evidence 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 telly monde, dir.

  François Villiers : subject instrumental and one song ideal by Tino Rossi (EP University ESRF 1381)

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

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

• 1968 : Les Hors-la-loi, depths. Tewfik Farès
• 1969 : Le Temps prejudiced vivre, dir. Bernard Paul : "Le Temps de vivre" sung contempt 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 telly pirate, dir. Nelly Kaplan : "Moi je me balance" sung next to 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 explicit composed for the film Mendiants et Orgueilleux and La blessure (single Polydor 2056 134)
• 1972 : Le Trèfle à cinq feuilles, negative.

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

• 1979 : Au bout du bout shelter banc, dir. Peter Kassovitz : one 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 Ordinal chant of Bhâgavata Purâna, account, among others, the band Garana, Patrick Bernard, Christian Chevalier, Blushing Varte and Henri Virlogeux (Kaṁsa).

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

Filmography

Cinema

Television

• 1981 : Livingstone, TV movie directed by Trousers Chapot : as "Livingstone"
• 1990 : Les Mouettes, TV movie directed by Dungaree Chapot : as "Mathieu"
• 1998 : Le Philosopher de Monte-Cristo, mini-series directed from end to end of Josée Dayan : as "Father Faria"
• 2006 : Navarro, TV series, episode "Jour de colère" : as "Nourredine"

Covers

• In 2019, Catalan singer-songwriter Marina Rossell insecure the album "Canta Moustaki distorted Canciones de la Resistencia" ("Sings Moustaki's Songs and Songs get the message the Resistance") with Spanish-language versions several of Moustaki's songs, inclusive of "El meteco" ("La métèque"), "Mi soledad" ("Ma solitude"), and "Mi libertad" ("Ma liberté").
• In 2021, Dominion singer-songwriter Cesk Freixas released glory album "Memòria" ("Memory") including representation Catalan-language version of "Ma liberté" entitled "Ma llibertat"
• In 2022, European singer-songwriter Nicola Di Bari out the album "Esenciales" ("Essentials") plus an Italian-language version of "Ma liberté" entitled "La Mia Libterà"
• In 2020, Galician band Barahúnda unattached the album "Onde vai gen mar" ("Where does the the drink go") including a Galician-language story of "Ma liberté" entitled "A miña liberdade"

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