Messaoud El Mediouni
Messaoud El Medioni(25 November 1886 inOran- 23 March 1943), also known asSaoud l'Oranais,was an Algerian band leader and proprietor of the originalCafé Oran.He was the uncle of Algerian pianistMaurice El Mediouni.
Around 1938, the mother of a 13-year-old blind girl fromTiaret,Sultana Daoud, sent her to study with "Saoud l'Oranais" - this girl was later to become famous asReinette L'Oranaise,the most prominent of all Jewish Algerian singers.[1][2]
Medioni was arrested by the Germans inMarseillein January 1943 and sent toSobiborextermination camp, where he was murdered in the gas chambers on 23 March 1943.[3]
References
[edit]- ^John ShepherdContinuum encyclopedia of popular music of the worldVolumes 3-7 "From the 1940s until her emigration to Paris in 1961, the blind singer Reinette l'Oranaise was the acclaimed star of hawzi. Other musicians on this scene included the band leader Saoud el Medioni and his nephew the pianist Maurice el M..."
- ^Philip SweeneyThe Virgin directory of world music1991 "Reinette I'Oranaise was born Sultana Daoud in Tiaret, Algeria, in the early 1920s. Blind from the age of two, she was sent by her mother to study music with the Jewish master Saoud Medioni," Saoud l'Oranais, "in whose Oran cafe in the..."
- ^Hatikvah Music (selections #4 and #5)
