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Georges Moustaki was born Giuseppe Mustacchi in Alexandria, Egypt,on 3 May 1934. His parents, Sarah and Nessim Mustacchi,were Francophile, Greek Jews from the ancient Romaniote Jewish community. Originally from the Greek island of Corfu, they moved to Egypt, where Giuseppe was born and first learned French. They owned the Cité du Livre bookshop in the cosmopolitan city of Alexandria, where many ethnic communities lived together.
Moustaki's father spoke five languages and his mother spoke six. The young Giuseppe and his two older sisters spoke Italian at home and Arabic in the streets. Their parents placed Giuseppe and his sisters in a French school where they learned to speak French.
Georges Moustaki died on 23 May 2013 at a hospital in Nice, France, after a long battle with emphysema.
The French president, François Hollande, called Moustaki a "hugely talented artist whose popular and committed songs have marked generations of French people".French Culture Minister Aurélie Filippetti hailed Moustaki as an "artist with convictions who conveyed humanist values ... and a great poet". Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë remembered Moustaki as "a citizen of the world who was in love with liberty, a true rebel until his last days", who had given France "unforgettable compositions and lyrics". Juliette Gréco, one of France's biggest singers in the 1960s, grieved the loss of a "poet" and "unique person". "He was a fine, elegant man who was infinitely kind and talented,"she told RTL radio.
Moustaki's funeral was held on 27 May 2013. It was attended by his widow Annick Cozannec and their daughter Pia, the French Culture Minister Aurélie Filippetti and numerous personalities from the entertainment world – Guy Bedos, Véronique Genest, Maxime Le Forestier, Jacques Higelin, Brigitte Fontaine, Arthur H, Valérie Mairesse, Hervé Vilard, Irène Jacob, François Corbier, Cali, Sapho, Enrico Macias, François Morel, Costa Gavras.
Moustaki was buried according to Jewish rites in a family vault at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris a few meters from the grave of his former amour Édith Piaf.
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