ART Posted 23 May, 2013 Share Posted 23 May, 2013 Really sad news, French singer Georges Moustaki has died 79 years. Georges is appreciated by those who love French music. He wrote over 300 songs including many for the likes of Edith Piaf, such as Milord before going on to be an artist in his own right. R.I.P. Georges English http://www.thenews.com.pk/article-102171-French-singer-Georges-Moustaki-dies-at-79--- French "]http://www.franceinfo.fr/musique/le-chanteur-georges-moustaki-79-ans-est-mort-aujourd-hui-a-nice-998039-2013-05-23 IL EST TROP TARD http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slhYI5Z9fmw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hamilton Saint Posted 23 May, 2013 Share Posted 23 May, 2013 Who? Georges Moustaki. You've never heard of him? Tant pis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ART Posted 23 May, 2013 Author Share Posted 23 May, 2013 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/23/georges-moustaki-singer-edith-piaf-dies Reuters The Guardian, Thursday 23 May 2013 18.50 BST French singer-songwriter Georges Moustaki dies following illness Georges Moustaki was introduced to Edith Piaf in the late 1950s and started to write songs for the Parisian star. Photograph: Manciet/Dalmas/Sipa/Rex Features French singer and songwriter Georges Moustaki, beloved in France for his collaborations with Edith Piaf and songs celebrating liberty, died on Thursday after a long illness. He was 79. The Greek-born singer grew up in Alexandria, Egypt, and arrived in Paris in 1951, where played guitar at nightclubs and met some of the period's best-known singers. He was introduced to Edith Piaf in the late 1950s and started to write songs for the Parisian star, the most famous being Milord – about a lower-class girl who falls in love with an upper-class British traveller. Developing a reputation as a singer in his own right in the mid-1960s, the hirsute and heavily bearded Moustaki achieved fame with songs such as the immigrant ballad Le Meteque, and Ma Liberté – a hymn to the 60s free-living spirit. A life-long advocate of left-wing causes, Moustaki ended his singing career in 2009, later telling newspaper La Croix thathe was suffering froman irreversible bronchial illness that made it impossible to carry on. The French culture minister, Aurelie Filippetti, hailed an "artist with convictions who conveyed humanist values ... and a great poet", while Twitter was full of tributes to a singer many said had defined their childhoods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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