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Do you know Marc Bellity?

Nummuliit - 6-1-2005 at 05:03 AM

Hi!

Does anybody knows french oud player Marc Bellity? I heard him some years ago in Estonia. He played oud and sang. It was very, very good... If anybody have some recording with him or his contact please contact me. I would like to ask from him about some tunes...

Margus
nummuliit@hot.ee

John Erlich - 6-2-2005 at 01:23 PM

Hi Margus,

Are you maybe thinking of Marc Loopuyt? See: http://www.oud.eclipse.co.uk/loopuyt.html

Best,
John

John Erlich - 6-2-2005 at 01:26 PM

P.S. I am 1/8 Estonian!

-John

Nummuliit - 6-3-2005 at 01:18 PM

That is very nice to hear. Have you ever been here - in Estonia?

margus

John Erlich - 6-5-2005 at 08:57 PM

Unfortuntely, I've never been anywhere near Estonia. My maternal great-grandfather was supposedly born in Tallinn, but migrated to Odessa in his youth. My grandfather was born in Odessa in 1906 and emigrated to the USA with his family in 1913. He told me that his mother was from Riga, Latvia. Mostly, though, I've travelled in the Eastern Mediterranean (Greece, Turkey, Israel, Egypt).

Maybe someday...

Best,
John