Re: Enrico Macias

[Bill Barabash <billb978...>]

He wasn't that unknown here.  In the late 1960s or early 1970s he played to
a packed Carnegie Hall.  I was there, and I remember him rocking the house
with "El Perompompero".

-- Bill B.

>Macias is magnificent, haunting at times, funny also.  We discovered him
>back in the 70's while watching TV in a Quebec motel of all places  He is
>well known there, virtually unknown in the States. Everytime we visited
>Quebec we would try to pick up his latest.
>
>How does one procure this latest CD???
>
>
>Sylvia Schildt
>
>on 1/30/03 6:21 AM, JOAN RUNDO at joarundo (at) tin(dot)it wrote:
>
>
>Another link to Jewish musicians/singers of the Arab world is Enrico 
>Macias,
>née Gaston Ghrenassia (his dad played with Cheik Raymond, if I'm not
>mistaken)-when I first went to Paris in the late seventies I fell in love
>with his songs..."Soleil, soleil de mon pays perdu..." Ah!
>
>Eva
>
>The other day I read about a new CD that's just come out by Enrico Macias
>called Oranges amères (Bitter oranges), again on the theme of the Algeria 
>he
>left behind.


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