Marie Soussan Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Marie Soussan Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Meriem "Marie" Soussan (in Arabic: ماري سوسان, in French:

Marie Soussan, January 17, 1895, Alger - 1977, Marseille France ) was

a Jewish-Algerian actress and singer associated with the rise of the

Algerian theater from the early 1930s, and the first woman in an Arab

country to appear in the theater (until then men played women

roles).Along with Rachid Ksentini, she became a partner in one of the

most popular theater pairs during the interwar period. she also

recorded 20 78-rpm records.Born on January 17, 1895 in the lower

Casbah of Algiers. Her mother Louna Aboucaya was the maternal aunt of

impresario Edmond Nathan Yafil. Similar to so many artists of her

times, she practiced her musical skills at family events, where she

devoted herself to singing and the darbuka. Sometime after World War

I, she joined El Moutribia, the orchestra and theater troupe of her

famous cousin Yafil. Her stage debut would seem to have occurred in

1925 at the Casino d’Alger. Over the next fifteen years, she

sustained a busy career with El Moutribia, acting and touring

alongside her comic partner Rachid Ksentini. Together, the

Jewish-Muslim duo became center stage. Many of those acts were then

recorded to disc. Soussan, of course, was also a talented solo artist,

recording an array of genres, classical and popular, first with

Gramophone and then with Polyphon. All of this earned her early

membership in the Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de

musique (SACEM).She left Algeria in 1959 and embarked on a business

career in the southern France, before Algeria gained independence and

after a deterioration process in the situation of artists there and

Jewish artists in particular following World War II. She died in 1977,

and was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Marseille.
Marie Soussan Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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