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Paul Bowles

Paul Bowles studied with Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, and Nadia Boulanger through the 1920s and early ’30s, even though living in European countries and North Africa. For another three years he wrote music for the brand new York theatre. In 1941 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to compose the opera …

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French Montana

A rapper who built an indie empire along with his Cocaine Town imprint, People from france Montana was created Karim Kharbouch in Morocco but immigrated to the U.S. while in his teenagers. He setup store in the Bronx and started launching his Cocaine Town series of Dvd videos in 2002, …

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Maurice Ohana

A composer of stunning originality, directed at rejecting institutions, cliques, and fashions, Ohana pursued a recognized career that’s as hard to characterize as his nationality. His dad had Andalusian traditions, but as the family members had resolved in Gibraltar, acquired British isles citizenship. Maurice was created in Morocco and raised …

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Roy Gomez

b. 27 Feb 1953, Casablanca, Morocco. Gomez shows up frequently in guitarist journals around the world – a testament to an long lasting skill and virtuoso technique which includes noticed him play on countless periods for an array of rock and roll, jazz and blues performers. He has so far …

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Alain Souchon

Broadly considered the godfather of contemporary French pop, singer/songwriter Alain Souchon captured the precarious masculinity of postmodern man with uncommon tenderness and whimsy. Frequently working in relationship with composer Laurent Voulzy, his music explored designs both personal and politics with poetic sophistication, firmly building its originator as the religious heir …

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Najat Aatabou

Born to a normal and conservative family members, Aatabou begun to be named a talented Berber and Arabic vocalist when she turned 17. The discharge of the bootleg recording offering her vocals caused the significant amounts of family members stress and disapproval, with the effect that Aatabu transferred from Khemisset …

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Sapho

Sapho was created in 1950 to Jewish parents within the predominantly Islamic nation of Morocco (Marrakesh, to be exact). When she was 16, her family members emigrated to France, although Sapho continuing her studies in a boarding college in Switzerland. By 18, she was living on her behalf very own …

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Emil Zrihan

Respectfully referred to as “the voice from the mocking bird” and “the Moroccan nightingale,” Emil Zrihan has taken the musical traditions of Morocco to Israel. Associated with oud, violin, kanoun, and darbouka, Zrihan provides utilized his multi-octave countertenor vocals to inject new lease of life into a wealthy combination of …

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