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Georges Moustaki
Georges Moustaki was an Egyptian-French singer-songwriter of Greek-Jewish origin. He wrote about 300 songs for some of the most popular singers in France, including Édith Piaf, 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.
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culture · Musical artist · composer · singer-songwriter · singer · painter · screenwriter · recording artist · actor · musician · guitarist · also Georges Moustaki, Giuseppe Mustacchi, Joseph Mustacchi, Yussef Mustacchi, Moustaki
Born 3 May 1934 · Died 23 May 2013 · Q293985
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2026· 1 entry
2023· 5 entries
Published video “Georges Moustaki - Les eaux de Mars (Lyric Video)”.
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Released album “Raretés & inédits, Vol. 1”.
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Released album “Raretés & inédits, Vol. 2”.
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Published video “Georges Moustaki - Paris qui va (Maquette)”.
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Released album “L’album de sa vie”.
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2022· 2 entries
Published video “Georges Moustaki - Le Métèque (Audio Officiel)”.
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Italian singer-songwriter Nicola Di Bari released the album "Esenciales" ("Essentials") including an Italian-language version of "Ma liberté" entitled "La Mia Libterà"
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2021· 1 entry
Catalan singer-songwriter Cesk Freixas released the album "Memòria" ("Memory") including the Catalan-language version of "Ma liberté" entitled "Ma llibertat"
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2020· 1 entry
Galician band Barahúnda released the album "Onde vai o mar" ("Where does the sea go") including a Galician-language version of "Ma liberté" entitled "A miña liberdade"
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2019· 1 entry
Catalan singer-songwriter Marina Rossell released the album "Canta Moustaki y Canciones de la Resistencia" ("Sings Moustaki's Songs and Songs of the Resistance") with Spanish-language versions several of Moustaki's song
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2014· 1 entry
Released album “L’Intégrale des albums studio 1969-1984”.
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2013· 2 entries
Died 2013-05-23.
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“I regret not being able to sing in my bathroom. But singing in public, no. I”
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2012· 1 entry
Released album “Georges Moustaki - 4 albums originaux”.
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2009· 2 entries
Released album “Les Enfants du Pirée”.
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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
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2008· 2 entries
Released album “Solitaire”.
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After a 50-year career during which he performed on every continent, Moustaki recorded his last album, Solitaire
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2007· 1 entry
Released album “Les 50 plus belles chansons”.
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2006· 2 entries
Released album “Most Famous Hits: The Album”.
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Released album “Gold”.
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2005· 1 entry
Released album “Vagabond”.
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2004· 3 entries
Released album “Le Séducteur”.
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Released album “Le Voyageur”.
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Released album “Volume 2, Le Philosophe”.
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2003· 2 entries
Released album “L’Essentiel”.
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Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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2002· 1 entry
Released album “Tout Moustaki ou presque…”.
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2000· 2 entries
Released album “Un métèque en liberté”.
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Released album “Olympia 2000”.
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1996· 2 entries
Awarded Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (1996).
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Released album “Tout reste à dire”.
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1994· 1 entry
Released album “Ma Liberté”.
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1992· 1 entry
Released album “Méditerranéen”.
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1991· 1 entry
Released album “Le Métèque à Bahia”.
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1989· 2 entries
Released album “Chansons”.
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Released album “Ballades en balade”.
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1988· 1 entry
Released album “Moustaki au Déjazet”.
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1984· 1 entry
Released album “Espace et Temps”.
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1982· 1 entry
Released album “Moustaki & Flairck”.
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1981· 1 entry
: Livingstone, TV movie directed by Jean Chapot : as "Livingstone"
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1980· 2 entries
Released album “Liederbuch”.
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Released album “Grösste Erfolge”.
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1978· 1 entry
Released album “Olympia 1977”.
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1975· 2 entries
Released album “Prélude”.
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Released album “Live”.
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1973· 3 entries
Released album “Georges Moustaki”.
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Released album “Georges Moustaki in Concert - “Je suis un autre””.
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Released album “Déclaration”.
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1972· 3 entries
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 as "Stou pikramenou tin avli", the latter being a French v
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Released album “Moustaki”.
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Released album “En Castellano”.
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1971· 2 entries
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")
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Released album “Il y avait un jardin”.
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1970· 2 entries
Released ep “Chansons pour Andréas”.
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Released album “Bobino 70”.
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1969· 2 entries
Released album “Le Métèque”.
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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"
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1963· 1 entry
Released ep “Le Roi du village”.
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1960· 3 entries
Released ep “Eddie Salem, son orchestre et ses chanteurs grecs”.
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And number 24 in the British charts the same year
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Released ep “Eddie Salem, son orchestre et ses chanteurs arabes”.
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1934· 1 entry
Born 1934-05-03.
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