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Leo Monosson returns ... with his true history !

The "after 80 years" career of Leo Monosson on YT is amazing. Still not long ago, that high tenor falsetto voice, having been recorded on numerous German records, seemed for the majority of listeners to be unknown and strange in its fashion. Only these more sophisticated collectors would try to consider if it was really him, singing in a fluent German and, at the same time, in so many other languages. Nevertheless, it seemed to be natural that such an artist slowly, by the fact of discovering again of his numerous recordings, would become a subject of interest, his life story and his fate included. That story, however, was calling for clarification, especially that for years it was wrapped in obscurity which gave in this instance a ground for fantasies and invented stories. The information having been hanging in internet for some years that Leo Monosson ended his life completely forgotten in some American shelter-hospice proves not to be true. Leo Monosson did not die poor, lonely or abandoned. Two years ago I received a nice and very interesting message from the grandson of the artist, being grateful for my YT presentations devoted to the memory of the singer and in the course of that contact I got informed how life of Mr Monosson really looked liked; I had also a chance of confronting it with photos that I was able to see. And in this way the idea of the present video appeared. Here below, I dare to cite a piece of the letter of the Leo Monosson's grandson that I had received. (...) " My grandfather comes from a rich family of jewellers from Moscow. He married my grandmother Charlotte Frank in Poland. After the marriage they travelled through Europe (when he started to sing) . During the Paris passage, my aunt was born in 1921 and my father in 1922. After that time the family went to Berlin and my father and my aunt learned in Berlin for a few years. In 1928, they came back to Warszawa where my grandmother died suddenly. My grandfather Leo at that time married again, with a German woman and went back two Paris with their 2 children . You ask about his language ? My grandfather knew perfectly (like mother tongue ) 11 different languages, including Japanese and Chinese (read, write and speak ) it was a phenomenon, but he had the "absolute ear", for this reason he was able to learn so many languages and so perfectly . My father had, too, this capacity and for myself I know 5 languages. Polish I learned from my wife (the little niece of my grandmother ). Almost all the Polish and Russian family disappeared during the World War 2 . Now only one guy stays near Warszawa. The sister of my father, my young brother in France and me in Israel. When my father was born in France, my grandfather Leo was so happy that when they went to register the child, they did not see that the officer made a mistake in the name and wrote Monosson as Monossohn, so my father , my young brother and me have the "h" - my aunt , my (deceded sister ) - not. In the beginning of the World War 2, my grandfather and his new wife took the last boat to New York and left the children in France . In America they lived in a big house in Ardsley (vicinity of New-York) and Leo Monosson started new occupation - as an international ( collection ) stamps trader. Only a few times they came to visit us in France and in 1954 when I went to him for one month in the USA. At present time I have only one photo of him with me (2:10 -- JP) taken in a little time before his disparition during a trip in Jamaica in 1967, where he got a heart stroke in the hotel elevator and died . Only a few records are still in the family. " (...) Born December 7, 1897, Moscow Died April 22, 1967, Jamaica The video includes the photos from the Monosson family collection (2:35 -- the last photo of the artist ever taken, with his wife Steffi) and sound of the record from JP's collection. Details of the music and recording on the record label, at the end of the video.