Chico Bouchikhi
Jahloul "Chico" Bouchikhi (born 1954 in Arles) is a musician and a co-founder of the Gipsy Kings. He later left the Gipsy Kings and founded Chico and the Gypsies.[1]
Bouchikhi was born in Arles to a Moroccan father and an Algerian mother.[2] He is married to the daughter of José Reyes. His brother, Ahmed Bouchiki, was gunned down in by Mossad agents in the Norwegian town of Lillehammer in July 1973 in the so-called Lillehammer affair. Bouchikhi had been mistaken for Ali Hassan Salameh.[3]
He is also UNESCO's special envoy for peace,[4] and has held a major concert in Israel with his band, despite the assassination of his brother by the Mossad. He has also played before Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat during the Oslo Accords peace negotiations.[3]
[edit] Discography
- "Jahloul "Chico" Bouchikhi", discogs
[edit] References
- ^ "CHICO and The GYPSIES". esbb Agency. http://www.esbb.net/nuages-productions/site/menu-exe.php?found=cgen. Retrieved 2010-08-30.
- ^ Chico Bouchikhi website
- ^ a b "Chico Bouchikhi, le king des gypsies". Maroc-hebdo.press.ma. http://www.maroc-hebdo.press.ma/MHinternet/Archives_692/html_692/chico.html. Retrieved 2010-08-30.
- ^ "UNESCO Celebrity Advocates congratulate the Director-General on his re-election". http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=30585&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html. Retrieved 2010-08-30.
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