Biography

Born into a family of musicians, Marcel Botbol was born in 1945 in the cultural capital of Morocco, Fez. From his young age, he joined the orchestra of his father Jacob Botbol at the cultural home of al Batha with his older brother Haim. This artist proved spend his life in troubadour wandering from one city to another: Tanger Casablanca, Paris or Montreal, by taking as his only luggage a violin and artistic soul.

He played with former major Moroccan and Algerian teachers of Jewish and Muslim religion as the accordionist Ilyas Oujdi, clarinetist Maurice Ouzaglo, the qanunji Salim Azra, pianist David Ben Soussen, and the Tunisian qanunji Brahim Salah. After a long stay in France, Marcel Botbol amounts to Tanger where he creates Marcello's restaurant, one of the cultural meeting places of the city. Through the Jewish spiritual or piutims which are based on the Arab-Andalusian music, the legacy of Sephardic contained in the old songs jealously saved in Tangier and Tetouan, the air of Moroccan modern song, North African and Eastern, Marcel Botbol was the traveling companion of great artists as Samy Elmaghribi, Salim Hilali, Bouhadana Haim Melouk and many Algerian musicians, as Skandrani Abdelkader Chaou.
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