Showing posts with label Dalida. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dalida. Show all posts
Monday, November 12, 2018

Franco-Arab music: Bob Azzam, Bruno Mory (Dalida's Brother), "Ya Mustapha," "Fattouma"

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I first heard Bob Azzam's "Ya Mustapha" when I moved to Beirut in 1964, it was one of the very few songs in Arabic t...
Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Dalida in Algiers, 1965, on the same bill as Mahieddine Bentir

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Oh, to have seen this show in November, 1965 in Algiers, just three years after Algeria gained its independence! On the 11th anniversary of ...
Wednesday, October 04, 2017

Dalida!

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And a few reminders of why Egyptians love Dalida (born in Shubra, Cairo, in 1933, so much): Dalida in the Egyptian film, Siga...
Monday, December 30, 2013

Maya Casabianca

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I recently ran across an article in Haaretz by Daphna Lewy, published on September 13, ...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Dalida in kufiya

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The great French singing star, born in Shubra, Cairo, Egypt. I have no idea what the source of this photo is, or when or where it was tak...
Friday, March 08, 2013

misc. kufiyas: Paul Robeson in "Jericho" (1937) (+ Princess Kouka)

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Robeson as Jericho, Princess Kouka as Gara I've not yet seen it, a friend (Bob) just recommended it to me. It is supposed to be on...
Monday, April 09, 2012

Dalida shares her Arab culture with Enrico Macias and Claude François

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Dalida, born in Shobra, Cairo, to Italian parents. Enrico Macias, an Algerian Jew, born Gaston Ghenassia, in Constantine, Algeria. Both ...
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