Parlez Moi D'amour - Music

Sapho Is A French Singer Of Moroccan-Jewish Descent. Born In In Marrakesh As Danielle Ebguy In 1950 Sapho Emigrated To France When She Was 16. By 18 She Was Living On Her Own In Paris Taking Acting Lessons Playing Guitar And Singing On The Streets. A Short Time Later A Musician Friend Convinced Her To Audition For Famed Music School Le Petit Conservatoire De Mireille. Sapho Soon Abandoned Her Acting Studies In Favor Of Music. Her First LP Le Balayeur Du Rex Was Released In 1977 By RCA. After Spending A Year In New York Where She Worked As A French Reporter And Played In Different Clubs She Went To London To Record Her Second LP Janis 1980 . Sapho Released Three Albums Over The Next Three Years Before Taking A Brief Break To Concentrate On A Book Featuring Cartoons From The Brasserie La Coupole In Paris. Sapho Returned To Music In 1985 With Passions Passons Which Saw Her Leaving The Rock Sound Of Her Previous Albums To Embrace The Middle Eastern Sounds She Had Grown Up With Leading To A Series Of Concerts At Le Bataclan Paris . There She Began Performing Her Arrangements Of Songs Made Popular By The Great Egyptian Singer Umm Kulthum. The Next Few Years Saw Sapho Branching Out Further. Living For A While In Mexico She Released El Sol Y La Luna Which Features A Duet With The Argentinian Singer Jairo. She Published Two Novels Was Involved In Making A Film About The Children Of The Intifada And Performed In A Threepenny Opera All The While Still Performing And Recording Her Own Music. Starting In 1992 She Focused On The Music Of Umm Kulthum Releasing A Full Album Of That Material And Touring The World Even Performing In Jerusalem In 1994. Her Next Album Jardin Andalou 1996 Blended Rock With Arabic And Andalusian Elements. This Was Followed By Digital Sheikha A More Electonic-Based Album With Pat Jabbar And The Contribution Of Bill Laswell For The Swiss Label Barraka El Farnatshi. In 1999 La Route Nue Des Hirondelles Was Released Along With Her Third Novel. She Transformed La Route Nue Des Hirondelles Into A Stage Show Which She Toured For The Next Couple Of Years While Also Continuing With The Umm Kulthum Material. Returning To Composition Sapho Worked And Performed In Bagdad Jerusalem Nazareth And Gaza Before Recording Orients 2003 With A Classical Orchestra Made Of Jewish Muslim And Christian Musicians. In 2005 Accompanied On Stage By A Flamenco Guitarist She Focused On Material By Famous French Songwriter And Composer Léo Ferré. In 2006 The Album Sapho Chante Léo Ferré - Ferré Flamenco Followed Featuring A Song Translated In Darija Moroccan Arabic Dialect . Her Latest Album Universelle In French English And Darija Is A Kind Of Travel Through All Of Her Influences From Blues To Traditional Sounds. read less