He was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria in 1946, into a Sephardic Jewish family.
After his university studies and a degree in political science, he began his career as an artist as a researcher, singer and performer of ethnic and popular music from various countries. In 1984 he began his journey towards theatre, first in collaboration with artists from the international scene, such as Bolek Polivka, Tadeusz Kantor, Franco Parenti, and then, gradually proposing himself as the creator, director, actor and leading actor of an absolutely peculiar “musical theatre”, in which previous experiences are grafted onto his vein of extraordinary entertainer, orator and comedian.
The underlying theme of his shows and his vast production of records and books is the composite and multifaceted tradition, the “cultural and real wandering” of the Jewish people, of which he feels himself to be the son and representative, that continuous immersion in different languages and sounds inherited from a culture that the dictatorships and totalitarian ideologies of the twentieth century would have liked to erase, and which is remembered for the future.
