Biography of enrico macias

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.

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Early years

He was born to a Jewish family in Constantine, Algeria, and played the guitar from childhood. His father, Sylvain Ghrenassia (1914-2004), was a violinist in an orchestra that played primarily maalouf, Andalo-Arabic music.

Gaston started playing with the Cheikh Raymond Leyris Orchestra at 15.

He pursued a career as a school teacher, but continued practicing the guitar. In 1961, the Algerian War of Independence was raging, and the situation became untenable for the Jewish and European residents of Constantine.

Of immense effect on Gaston Ghrenassia was the assassination in 1961 of his father-in-law and musician Cheikh Raymond Leyris by the Nati