Georges Moustaki

Georges Moustaki was an EgyptianFrench singersongwriter of ItaloGreek origin, best known for the poetic rhythm and simplicity of the romantic songs he composed and often sang. Moustaki gave France some of its bestloved music by writing about 300 songs for some of the most popular singers in that country, such as dith Piaf, Dalida, Franoise Hardy, Yves Montand, Barbara, Brigitte Fontaine, Herbert Pagani, France Gall, Cindy Daniel, Juliette Greco, Pia Colombo, and Tino Rossi, as well as for himself.

Georges Moustaki was born Giuseppe Mustacchi in Alexandria, Egypt on May 3, 1934. His parents, Sarah and Nessim Mustacchi, were Francophile, Greek Jews from the island of Corfu, Greece. They moved to Egypt, where their young child first learned French. They owned the Cit du livre one of the finest book shops in the Middle East in the cosmopolitan city of Alexandria where many ethnic communities lived together.

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