✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is Georges Moustaki!

Georges Moustaki was a musician and songwriter in France who wrote many of the biggest French musical hits for artists such as Édith Piaf, Brigitte Fontaine, Françoise Hardy, Yves Montand, Barbara, and more.

Moustaki grew up in Aleandria as a Romaniote Jew. At age 17, he moved to France and worked as a door to door salesman by day and working nightclubs by night, and soonafter began working for a songwriter. He specifically wrote songs for Edith Piaf, who he then became romantically involved with as well.

Many of his songs were international hits, and he eventually began his own career, and as a polygot, he would sing in all the languages he knew, which were Arabic, Greek, French, Italian, English, Spanish and Portugese.

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