L'oriental [Import]

Enrico Macias | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 23, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: EMI
• ASIN: B000059M8T
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #211,730 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful. Reminds me of 1965-69 Beirut, October 4, 2007

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h-squared "HH" (Illinois, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: L'oriental (Audio CD)

For those who lived in Beirut in the late 60s and early 70s, it brings back wonderful memories. The sound is very clear. This is the best of Enrico. Every song is terrific.

Enrico was an born in Algeria to Jewish parents and had to escape to France during the war of Independence. His music is an Andalusian-French-Spanish genre. It sounds Near-Eastern yet European. His first hit was in 1962, and he toured Lebanon and other Mediterranean countries with great success.

I recommend this CD without reservations.

5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful Sound & Songs, October 6, 2011

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MARIAM MOHAMAD ABOHAIDER - See all my reviews
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This review is from: L'oriental (Audio CD)

Gaston Ghrenassia, known by his stage name Enrico Macias, (born 11 December 1938 in Constantine, then in French Algeria) is an Algerian French Pied noir singer and musician. He is popular throughout the world and has travelled extensively for fifty years, from the early 1960s to the present.Of great popularity were his 1960s Oriental-influenced songs like "J'ai quitté mon pays", "Les filles de mon pays", "L'Orientale", "Entre l'orient et l'occident" and tribute songs like "Le violon de mon père" (to his father), and "Mon chanteur préferé" (a tribute to his father-in-law Cheikh. Enrico-maciass-voice-is-more-than-sufficient.