Henriette & Elie Zmirou

Henriette & Elie Zmirou weren’t professional performers — indeed, Elie Zmirou is at New York functioning being a translator on the US when both crossed pathways with manufacturer Tony Schwartz. He was focusing on a task relating to the music noticed in midtown Manhattan and was impressed more than enough with Henriette Zmirou’s unaffected performing that he documented them for Folkways, mainly doing music from her indigenous Normandy unaccompanied. The causing album, entitled French Folk Music, was eventually released by Folkways.