DISAPPEARANCE – The young musician, discovered via social networks while he was playing on a piano at the Timone hospital, died Saturday morning in Paris, from a rare liver disease.
Mourad Tsimpou, a young piano prodigy known by the stage name Mourad, died Saturday at the age of 19 after a long illness, one of his managers told AFP.
He died Saturday morning at the Necker children’s hospital in Paris, from a rare liver disease from which he had suffered since childhood, explained Salim Lebghil, one of the two directors of 1392 Records.
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Mourad’s musical story began during yet another visit to the Marseille hospital of La Timone. Originally, like Zinedine Zidane, from the city of La Castellane in the northern districts of Marseille, he discovered a piano there, having never played it in his life. He was 14, listened to an impromptu by Chopin on the Internet and reproduced it by improvising. Mourad had “perfect pitch, he played without sheet music”explains Salim Lebghil. The scene is captured by another patient, who posts it on social networks, arousing incredible enthusiasm.
It was the start of a whirlwind career, two albums, a third in preparation. He collaborated with André Manoukian, the rap star Soprano and for example performed during the Top 14 rugby final in 2021 playing La Marseillaise. He will be buried in the Comoros where his family is from.
