The Unfinished Search for an Early Professional Arabic Singing Star in the United States: Syrian-American, Jewish Singer - Moses Cohen
The Unfinished Search for an Early Professional Arabic Singing Star in the United States: Syrian-American, Jewish Singer - Moses Cohen Moses E. Cohen. Photo property of the Sephardic Heritage Museum. New York, New York. We do not take the publication of this biography lightly since much of the evidence remains unclear and our senses may have easily misled us. No singular piece of documentation provides a combined birthdate, address, and occupation as a singer or musician and contains the name Moses or Mousa Cohen. For years, historians, ethnomusicologists, and record collectors have attempted to find the Syrian Jewish singer Moses Cohen also known as Mousa Cohen. Every so often, one of Cohen’s Columbia Records or Victor Talking Machine Company releases is found by a record collector. Sometimes the buyer holds onto the discs, fails to locate even the slightest information about Cohen, then either holds onto or sells the record exhausted by the faint prospect of ever uncovering Co...