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Georges Moustaki (born Giuseppe Mustacchi;[1] 3 May 1934 – 23 May 2013) was an Egyptian-French singer-songwriter of Jewish Italo-Greek origin, best known for the poetic rhythm and simplicity of the romantic songs he composed and often sang. Moustaki gave France some of its best-loved music by writing about 300 songs for some of the most popular singers in that country, such as 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 for himself.[2]

Contents Early life in Egypt Georges Moustaki was born Giuseppe Mustacchi in Alexandria, Egypt, on 3 May 1934. His parents, Sarah and Nessim Mustacchi, were Francophile, Greek Jews from the ancient Romaniote Jewish community. Originally from the Greek island of Corfu, they moved to Egypt, where young Giuseppe was born and first learned French. They owned the Cité du Livre − one of the finest book shops in the Middle East – in the cosmopolitan city of Alexandria, where many ethnic communities lived together.[3]

Moustaki's father spoke five languages whereas his mother spoke six. The young Giuseppe and his two older sisters spoke Italian at home and Arabic in the streets.[4] The parents placed Giuseppe and his sisters in a French school where they learned to speak French.[4]

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

Moustaki said that his taste for 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 the late 1950s by a friend whose praise of the young songwriter was so flattering that Piaf, then at the peak of her fame, requested somewhat sarcastically to hear him sing his best works. "I picked up a guitar and I was lamentable. But something must have touched her. She asked me to go and see her perform that same evening at the Olympia music hall and to show her later the songs I had just massacred."[5]

He soon began writing songs for Piaf, the most famous of which, Milord, about a lower-class girl who falls in love with an upper-class British traveller, reached number one in Germany in 1960 and number 24 in the British charts the same year. It has since been performed by numerous artists, including Bobby Darin and Cher.

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

After a decade of composing songs for various famous singers, Moustaki launched a successful career as a performer himself, singing in French, Italian, English, Greek, Portuguese, Arabic and Spanish.

Moustaki's songwriting career peaked in the 1960s and 1970s with songs like "Sarah", performed by Serge Reggiani, and "La Longue Dame brune", written for the singer 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 himself as a "wandering Jew" and a "Greek shepherd". Serge Reggiani rejected it and the record companies refused to produce it. Moustaki then sang it himself, on a 45rpm disc, and it became a huge hit in France, spending six non-consecutive weeks at number one in the charts. "A small, subliminal settling of scores became the hymn of anti-racism and the right to be different, the cry of revolt of all minorities," Moustaki said of the song.[2]

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

In 1972 Moustaki popularized the translation of two songs by Mikis Theodorakis, "l'Homme au cœur blessé" and "Nous sommes deux", the latter being a French version of Imaste dio.[7]

Moustaki's philosophy was reflected in his 1973 song "Déclaration": "I declare a permanent state of happiness and the right of everyone to every privilege. I say that suffering is a sacrilege when there are roses and white bread for everyone."[8]

Moustaki became a French citizen in 1985.[9]

In 2008, after a 50-year career during which he performed on every continent, Moustaki recorded his last album, Solitaire. On it, he recorded two songs with China Forbes.

In 2009, in a packed concert hall in Barcelona, he told the stunned audience that he was giving his last public performance as he would no longer be 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 many years, before his lung illness forced him to leave his beloved Paris to seek out warmer and cleaner air in the French Riviera.

In his last interview given to Nice-Matin newspaper in February 2013, Moustaki said, "I regret not being able to sing in my bathroom. But singing in public, no. I've done it all.... I've witnessed magical moments."[10]

Death, tributes and funeral Georges Moustaki died on 23 May 2013 at a hospital in Nice, France, after a long battle with emphysema.[1][11]

The French president, François Hollande, called Moustaki a "hugely talented artist whose popular and committed songs have marked generations of French people".[12] French Culture Minister Aurélie Filippetti hailed Moustaki as an "artist with convictions who conveyed humanist values ... and a great poet".[13] Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë remembered Moustaki as "a citizen of the world who was in love with liberty, a true rebel until his last days", who had given France "unforgettable compositions and lyrics". Juliette Gréco, one of France's biggest singers in the 1960s, grieved the loss of a "poet" and "unique person". "He was a fine, elegant man who was infinitely kind and talented," she told RTL radio.[14]

Moustaki's funeral was held on 27 May 2013. It was attended by his widow Annick Cozannec and their daughter Pia, the French Culture Minister 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 Jewish rites in a family vault at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris a few meters from the grave of his former amour Édith Piaf.[9][15] [16]

Discography Studio albums 1961 : Les Orteils au soleil 1969 : Le Métèque 1971 : Il y avait un jardin 1972 : Danse 1973 : Déclaration 1974 : Les Amis de 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

Georges Moustaki at the Théâtre du Rond-Point, December 2005 1970 : Bobino 70 – Le temps de vivre 1973 : Concert 1975 : Live 1978 : Olympia 1988 : Au Déjazet 2001 : Olympia 2000 2002 : Presque en solo – Live à la Philharmonie de Berlin (Troubadour Records) 2015 : En live au Troubadour Festival 1995 (Troubadour Records) All double albums except for Bobino 70 and En live au Troubadour Festival 1995 which is for download only.

Main compilations 1989 : Ballades en balade [4 CD box-set, 87 titles with lyrics] 2002 : Tout Moustaki ou presque... [10 CD box-set, 222 titles (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 de Georges] 2013 : Gold Soundtracks 1962 : Jusqu’au bout du monde, dir. François Villiers : one instrumental and one song performed by Tino Rossi (EP Columbia ESRF 1381) 1963 : Le Roi du village, dir. Henri Gruel : one instrumental and "Venez les filles", sung by Les Chats Sauvages (EP Pathé Marconi EG 659) 1966 : Cécilia, médecin de campagne, TV series, dir. André Michel : two instrumentals (EP Ducretet Thomson 460 V 720) 1968 : Les Hors-la-loi, dir. Tewfik Farès 1969 : Le Temps de vivre, dir. Bernard Paul : "Le Temps de vivre" sung by Henia Ziv and one instrumental (single Polydor 66 708) 1969 : L'Américain, dir. Marcel Bozzuffi : two instrumentals (single United Artists / EMI C 006-90521) 1969 : La Fiancée du pirate, dir. Nelly Kaplan : "Moi je me balance" sung by 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 he composed for the film Mendiants et Orgueilleux and La blessure (single Polydor 2056 134) 1972 : Le Trèfle à cinq feuilles, dir. Edmond Freess : composer with Hubert Rostaing (single Polydor 2056 164) 1979 : Au bout du bout du banc, dir. Peter Kassovitz : two instrumentals (Festival/Musidisc SPX 232) Collaborations 1979 : La belle histoire de l'enfant qui possède tout, after the 10th chant of Bhâgavata Purâna, with, among others, the band Garana, Patrick Bernard, Christian Chevalier, Rosy Varte and Henri Virlogeux (Kaṁsa). Double album, produced by Alain Rémila, Gopal Productions RP104/RP106 Filmography Cinema 1972 : Mendiants et Orgueilleux directed by Jacques Poitrenaud : as "Hadjis" Television 1981 : Livingstone, TV movie directed by Jean Chapot : as "Livingstone" 1990 : Les Mouettes, TV movie directed by Jean Chapot : as "Mathieu" 1998 : Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, mini-series directed by Josée Dayan : as "Father Faria" 2006 : Navarro, TV series, episode "Jour de colère" : as "Nourredine"

ז'ורז' מוסטקי

ז'ורז' מוּסְטָקי ;‏ 3 במאי 1934 - 23 במאי 2013) היה משורר, מלחין וזמר צרפתי יהודי מפורסם, אחד המשוררים והזמרים הבולטים בתחום השאנסון.

מוסטקי היה בין הראשונים שכתב והלחין בעצמו את מילות שיריו. הוא ידוע בשיריו הרומנטיים והפואטיים, נחשב כ"משורר הבית"[%D7%93%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A9%D7%94 הבהרה] וכתב שירים רבים עבור ותיקי הזמר הצרפתי במאה העשרים, כאדית פיאף, איב מונטאן, דלידה, ברברה ואחרים.

חייו

מוסטקי נקרא בשם יוּסף מוסטקי בלידתו. הוא נולד באלכסנדריה שבמצרים, בן לנסים ולשרה, יהודים-יוונים רומניוטים שהיגרו מהאי קורפו וניהלו באלכסנדריה חנות ספרים. בביתו דיברו יוונית ואיטלקית, וברחוב ספג את הערבית המצרית. הוריו היו קשורים לתרבות הצרפתית, ומוסטקי ואחיותיו נשלחו ללמוד בבית ספר צרפתי. המלחין והזמר הישראלי יוסף מוסטקי הוא קרוב משפחתו.

בשנת 1951, בגיל 17, עבר מוסטקי יחד עם משפחתו לפריז. הוא הושפע מהזמר ומשורר השאנסון ז'ורז' ברסנס, ולכבודו הוא שינה את שמו הפרטי לז'ורז'. בהשראתו הוא החל לכתוב שירה ולהשתלב בחיי הבוהמה של העיר. בתקופה זו הוא כתב מספר שירים לזמר אנרי סלבדור (Henri Salvador).

בשנת 1958 פגש מוסטקי לראשונה את זמרת השנסון הנודעת אדית פיאף. בין פיאף, שהייתה אז בת 43, ובין מוסטקי בן ה-24 התפתח רומן. מוסטקי כתב לה את השיר "מילורד" (Milord), אותו שרה בשנה לאחר מכן, ושהפך לאחד משיריה הנודעים ביותר. השניים נפצעו בתאונת דרכים, דבר שהחמיר מאוד את מצבה הבריאותי של פיאף, שנפטרה חמש שנים מאוחר יותר.

מוסטקי הפך לזמר בשנת 1966, עם הוצאתו לאור של אלבומו הראשון, "Le Metèque", שזכה להצלחה מיידית. בשנים לאחר מכן פרסם מוסטקי עשרות אלבומים שרבים מהם זכו להצלחה. כמו כן הוא פרסם ספרים וכתב מוזיקה למספר סרטים.[1]

מוסטקי כתב ושר בצרפתית, באיטלקית, באנגלית, ביוונית ובספרדית.

חלק משיריו של מוסטקי תורגמו לעברית וזכו לפרסום. בין שירים אלה: "אַת חירותי" (תרגם יורם טהרלב ושרה חוה אלברשטיין), "הגבירה בחוּם" (תרגם יעקב שבתאי ושרו אילנה רובינא ויוסי בנאי) ו"פרצוף של צועני" (תרגם נסים אלוני ושר יוסי בנאי).

מוסטקי ביקר בישראל (לראשונה ב-1963), הופיע בה מספר פעמים והושפע גם מתרבותה. לדוגמה, המשורר היווני מנוס חאג'ידאקיס כתב והלחין את השיר ביוונית, שעל הבסיס שלו כתבה נעמי שמר את השיר איילת אהבים עבור שלישיית גשר הירקון. מוסטקי תרגם את הנוסח של שמר לצרפתית, והקליט אותו.[2]

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