Rendering on music (4)

The article published on the website news.yahoo.com  on May 23, 2013 is headlined “Singer and Piaf songwriter Georges Moustaki dies at 79”. This article is reporting By Marine Pennetier and Elizabeth Pineau; Writing Nicholas Vinocur, editing by Paul Casciato.

The article reports at length about French singer and songwriter Georges Moustaki, he was beloved in France for his songs celebrating liberty and collaborations with Edith Piaf. Moustaki died on Thursday after a long illness. He was 79.

It’s an open secret that The Greek-born singer grew up in Alexandria, Egypt, and arrived in Paris in 1951, where he began to play guitar at nightclubs and met some of the period's best-known singers.

In resolute terms, the author of the article reports that he was introduced to Edith Piaf in the late 1950s and started to write songs for the Parisian star, the most famous of which was "Milord" about a lower-class girl who falls in love with an upper-class British traveler.

Analyzing the situation, it is necessary to note that developing a reputation as a singer in his own right in the mid-1960s, the hirsute and heavily bearded Moustaki achieved fame with songs including the immigrant ballad "Le Meteque" and "Ma Liberte", a hymn to the 1960s free-living spirit.

It’s important to single out that Moustaki, a life-long advocate of left-wing causes, ended his singing career in 2009, later telling newspaper La Croix that he was suffering from an irreversible bronchial illness that made it impossible to carry on.

The article draws the conclusion that French Culture Minister Aurelie Filippetti hailed an "artist with convictions who conveyed humanist values... and a great poet", and Twitter was flooded with tributes to a singer who many said had defined their childhoods.

Having known nothing about Moustaki, I’d say that it was interesting to learn some information about him and his private life. What a pity for the whole world to lose such a genius. I’m sure his status is well-deserved and he was an honoured worker of his profession.