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Maurice El Mediouni, FrenchEl Medioni(Arabic-????????? ??????????????????, born on 18 October 1928 inOran,French Algeria) is a FrenchAlgerianpianist, composer and interpreter of Andalusian, rai, Sephardic and Arab music. He is one of the few living artists to have performed with artists such asLili Labassi,Line Monty,Lili Boniche,Samy el Maghribi, andReinette l'Oranaise. He is also a professional tailor and took up initially music as a hobby. Born in the Jewish quarter of Oran, in a family of musicians. His uncle was the celebratedMessaoud El Mediouni, ""Saoud l'Oranais"" who died at theSobibor concentration camp. He is sometimes regarded as the grandfather of Algerian pop music. Following the Algerian war of independence he moved to Paris, France, where he worked as a tailor as well as occasionally backing Jewish singers, and in 1967 to Marseilles where he opened a clothing factory and took a break from his musical career, which he resumed in the 1980s. He is currently based in France and Israel, and can be caught live performing solo or with other Arab-French and Jewish-French artists, such as Mahmoud Fadl, the Klezmatics, as well as playing alongside musicians who had originally accompanied him nearly half a century earlier in Algeria and France
