Enrico Macias, born Gaston Ghrenassia in Constantine, Algeria, has achieved international renown as a singer-songwriter.Entertaining audiences around the world for over 50 years, the artistry and the pain that drive Macias’ music lie buried in the homeland he was forced to flee. Macias, who has sold hundreds of thousands of records and performed in front of audiences of over a hundred thousand people played a concert in Egypt at the behest of Anwar Sadat, has been awarded France’s Légion d’honneur (1985), and was named “Singer of Peace” (1981) and “Ambassador at Large for Peace and the Protection of the Children of the World” (1997) by the United Nations.