NoBorders Campos's video: Cheick Mwijo - A child in the sea

Check out this intersting blog by Chris Silver to heat more about Cheick Mwijo. http://jewishmorocco.blogspot.co.il/2011/01/meeting-legendary-cheikh-mwijo.html Cheikh Mwijo, (real name: Moshe Attias), had long occupied my imagination. Of all the Moroccan Jewish performers he was one of the most recognizable and perhaps the most flamboyant. The album artwork on his records was unmistakably him. There is the one where he gazes admiringly at a record, the one where he wears a fur coat and holds a cigarette in one hand and a violin in the other, another where there are four different images of Mwijo -- one in traditional Moroccan garb, one wearing a yarmulke and studying text, one in a suit and one by a video camera. Above all else, Mwijo's voice is distinct and that is what makes him stand out. Before arriving in Israel we (mostly Uri) worked on tracking down Mwijo so that we could interview him and record him. Most of the musicians of Mwijo's era have passed -- many in recent years (Samy Elmaghribi, Jo Amar, etc.) and that was part of the reason why this was so important.