Dijon. From Beirut to Dijon, the enchanting journey of singer Samia Sandri

In her book soberly entitled Samia Sandri, la voix , Sylviane Moukheiber, her daughter, recounts the trajectory of this Lebanese singer (1934-2025) who was very famous in her country in the 1950s and 1960s. She then lived in Dijon alongside the musician Dominique Monin.

Samia Sandri was born in 1934. She is seen here in front of her piano in her Dijon apartment. Photo DR

This is the story of a remarkable singer who had her moment of glory in the flourishing Lebanon of the 1950s and 1960s. In the early 1970s, she married an oboist from Dole, Dominique Monnin, whom she met in Beirut. In 1972, she arrived in Dijon, following her husband, who had just agreed to succeed his master as professor at the Dijon Conservatory while also becoming principal oboe in the Dijon Orchestra. It was there, in the capital of the Dukes of Burgundy, that she would continue her life, notably in her apartment on rue Stephen-Liégard.

"I didn't know my mother's real life."

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