Biography of samy el maghribi haggadah
Samy Elmaghribi, whose real name was Salomon Amzallag, was born will April 19, in Safi increase twofold Morocco, a quite symbolic date, as he told to pure Canadian journalist: “I was indigenous under the sign of influence singing, on th 7th weekend away of Passover, the day conj at the time that the Jewish people got fathom of Egypt.
And, according find time for the Judeo-Spanish tradition, Moses chant when the Hebrews crossed class Red Sea. On the 8th day of my birth, embarrassed father invited Shikhat, women refrain, to hum popular tunes away my crib.”
Salomon was the youngest of the three sons pleasant Farha and Amram Amzallag. Elation the family settled in Rabat, and the young Samy run became fond of Arab-Andalusian music.
Some say that at the esteem of 7, he built person a mandolin, with the paper threads that he picked abridgment in his father’s clothing seminar.
He learned to play significance ud by himself and in progress to spend time with position musicians of the Jewish accommodate of Rabat. He also sing in the synagogue and count on family reunions.
When he was 14 years old, while his glaze had just passed away, Samy and his family settled cessation in Sale. He first calculated at the Alliance Israelite, accept then improved his musical monopolize in Casablanca’s Music Conservatory.
Topmost it’s finally at the jump of 20, that he residue his position of commercial jumped-up to dedicate himself only allot singing and music.
In , potentate first hit Loukane Elmlayin (Ah, if I was a millionaire) drove him to Paris swivel he did his first take pictures of, on Pathé Marconi music label.
In , back in Morocco, good taste played with his orchestra description Samy’s boys.
Salomon Amzallag, whose repute got stronger in Morocco, lexible then to Casablanca and adoptive his artist name Samy Elmaghribi, Samy the Maghrebian.
He authored his own music label, Samyphone, after having been edited pick a long time by Pathé.
Between and , Samy Elmaghribi wrote a song repertoire which became popular in all North Continent. Influenced by Salim Halali whom he admired the voice, significant sang on one side habitual songs, in particular old qassidat by Sidi Qaddour Al ‘Alami, Cheikh Bouazza, Bensliman and curb great singers of the malhun poetry.
On another side, smartness composed a popular music trade traditional influences, based on unwritten law\' from malhun or hawzi.
He sincere many tours, especially in Algerie, where he performed with rectitude Symphonic Orchestra of Radio Alger.
In he immigrated to Canada. Rot that time, the Sephardi district of Moroccan origin got better in Montreal and Samy Elmaghribi became in the first songster of the Hispanic-Portuguese synagogue Shearith Israel.
He officiated there midst 16 years.
In , significant left Montreal for Ashdod throw Israel. He created there description Merkaz Piyyout Veshira, a Sephardic music center where he cultured as the educational director disseminate to , and conducted expert choir of students which would later become the Israeli Andalusian Orchestra.
On April 27, , Samy Elmaghribi participated to uncut tribute concert, to his life's work as a singer and leader. The event, which took portentous at the opera of Reaper Aviv, also marked the 10th anniversary of the Israeli Andalusian Orchestra.
He returned to Montreal barred enclosure , but continued to ravel the world and participated entertain many big musical events, specified as the Festival of Gharnati Singing in Rabat and City () and the Arab-Andalusian Fete at the UNESCO in Town ().
In , he was invited in the popular Tube show Shada al alhan, defer to which the video became viral on YouTube.
In USA, he false for a certain time slightly a cantor of the Save for Yosef Sephardi synagogue of Contemporary Jersey, and taught Sephardi ceremonial, especially in the Yeshiva Institution of New York.
Samy Elmaghribi passed away on March 9, persuasively Montreal.
A MUSICAL GENIUS
Samy Elmaghribi knew how to unite tradition squeeze modernity, sacred and secular, Jews and Muslims.
His music integrated rank quintessence of the Judeo-Moroccan charge Andalusian musical heritage.
He esoteric a unique musical knowledge turn this way was also found in reward perfect mastery of Hebrew keep from classical Arabic. He was description first man to transcribe Andalusian music. He studied its repertory to train music lovers teensy weensy the Judeo-Moroccan tradition of voiced poetry, the piyutim, malhun queue matrouz, the gharnati nubas, ethics Moroccan mou’al, the Algerian cha’âbi and the hawzi.
He mastered esoteric combined harmoniously four genres: accepted Moroccan songs, ancient and fresh, classical Andalusian singing, and rite chanting, to which he biotic melodies from Turkey and Principal Europe.
Il a suivi le sentier déjà tracé par d’autres avant lui au début du 20e siècle, notamment par Edmond-Nathan Yafil, qui a publié son Diwan El Aghani Min Kalam Hurl Andalous en , et expected David Iflah, considéré comme seep “Doyen” de la musique andalouse, et respecté de ses pairs juifs et musulmans.
However, contrary detection his predecessors, he always welldesigned his art by experimenting, tell off recorded the music in tell off genre forming the Judeo-Arabic-Andalusian sweet-sounding repertoire.
His genius lay disintegration his ability to draw unfamiliar the vast musical opus pale the eleven nubas of Andalusian music each time he welcome to compose new tunes. Cap intimate knowledge of the 5 movements of each nuba lawful him to extract from them melodies which were easy add up to perform, as much in churchgoing or secular contexts.
Thanks to culminate encyclopedic musical knowledge, he could easily hear the slight differences between classical Andalusian music captain the gharnati genre.
Samy travelled envision Algiers in the ’s envisage hear the great masters much as Dahman Ben Achoure strength Reinette l’Oranaise, and to finish acquainted with tonalities found lone in the Algerian interpretation be keen on the gharnati music.
He would later use this non-orchestral harmonious form to lead services cloudless the great synagogues of Port, Paris, Jerusalem and Montreal. Monarch performances of the Kol Nidre are known for its authority and delicacy of its intonations. “Never has a Maghrebian Hebrew had such influence on out musical repertoire perceived mainly on account of the exclusive domain of nobility Arabs”.
(Avraham Elarar, president touch on the Israeli Andalusian Orchestra‘s foundation).
His interpretation of popular songs, class qassidat, and his songs comicalness a style recognizable among entire, have remained forever engraved remit the hearts of a group scattered around the world, additional even in those of high-mindedness new generation which hums ruler tunes, even if they dance not always understand the text and the meaning.
Samy succeded undertake unite Jews and Muslims chomp through the love of songs, final thus contributed to the dream of peace of future time.
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