Born Patrick Benguigui in Tlemcen, Algeria, he left for France with his mother at three. One of France's best-selling singers and a film actor, he has spoken of himself as a Jew of Judeo-Algerian origin and returned to Algeria in 2023 for the first time in sixty years.
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