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Moustaki became a French citizen in 1985. 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.
Jun 17, 2023 · Georges Moustaki died ten years ago on May 23, 2013, at age 79. He was born Giuseppe Mustacchi in Alexandria, Egypt, to Jewish Greek parents who owned the Cité du Livre bookshop. His parents...
When he moved to Paris in 1951 after completing his baccalaureat, singer-songwriter Georges Brassens introduced him to the left-bank French artistic-intellectual community and its cabarets. Moustaki eventually adopted the name Georges in honor of his mentor.
Jul 31, 2023 · Although he achieved his ideal fame in France, singing French-language music within a distinctly French design, singer/songwriter Georges Moustaki was even more a citizen of the world — or, as he often place it, a “citizen from the French vocabulary.”
May 23, 2013 · Born in 1934 in Egypt to Greek parents, Georges Moustaki was, from a young age, interested in French literature and music. The singer left Egypt and moved to Paris where he met singer Georges Brassens who introduced him to the world of music and presented him to Edith Piaf.
May 24, 2013 · JTA — Georges Moustaki, a French singer and songwriter known as “The Wandering Jew,” has died. Moustaki’s Paris-based production company said he had died early Thursday at his home in Nice...
May 25, 2013 · May 25, 2013. PARIS — Georges Moustaki, a singer and songwriter who wrote Édith Piaf’s hit song “Milord” and won wide popularity in France for his poetic lyrics and melancholy ballads, died on...
