{"id":74666,"date":"2021-12-13T09:44:56","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T08:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iemj.org\/le-label-samyphone\/"},"modified":"2022-02-02T16:42:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T15:42:13","slug":"le-label-samyphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iemj.org\/en\/le-label-samyphone\/","title":{"rendered":"The music label Samyphone"},"content":{"rendered":"

An author, composer, and singer of music inspired by the Judeo-Moroccan and Andalusian heritage, Samy Elmaghribi<\/a>, whose real name was Salomon Amzallag, was born on April 19, 1922 in Safi in Morocco.<\/p>\n

In the 1950’s, after having recorded on Path\u00e9-Marconi music label in Paris, he returned to Morocco where he played with his band the Samy\u2019s boys<\/em>. His fame got bigger and he adopted his artist name Samy Elmaghribi (Samy the Maghrebian).<\/p>\n

Around 1955, he created in Casablanca his own music label, Samyphone<\/em><\/strong>. The records were manufactured at the time in France. In the beginning of the 1960’s, the Israeli music label Zakiphon took over the pressing and distribution of a part of Samyphone’s records in Israel. By the end of the 1960’s, Path\u00e9 reedited several Samyphone records for the French market.<\/p>\n

The video below features the greatest successes of Samy Elmaghribi, illustrated with concert excerpts, films and archive footage.<\/p>\n

Browse the list of records published by the music label Samyphone<\/a><\/p>\n

Read Samy Elmaghribi’s biography<\/a><\/p>\n

Listen to the playlist featuring Samy Elmaghribi’s best songs<\/a><\/p>\n