Marcel Dadi

Quick Facts

Full Name	Marcel Dadi
Occupation	Guitarist
Date Of Birth	Aug 20, 1951(1951-08-20)
Age	73
Date Of Death	1996-07-17
Birthplace	Sousse
Country	Tunisia
Birth City	Sousse Governorate
Horoscope	Leo

Marcel Dadi Biography

Marcel Dadi is one of the most popular and richest Guitarist who was born on August 20, 1951 in Sousse, Sousse Governorate, Tunisia. French guitarist who played fingerpicking and was inducted into Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame.

Chet atkins had a huge influence on Dadi.

Marcel Dadi (20 August 1951 – 17 July 1996) was a Tunisian-born Jewish French virtuoso guitarist known for his finger-picking style which faithfully recreated the instrumental styles of American guitarists such as Chet Atkins, Merle Travis and Jerry Reed. He became a personal friend of country star Chet Atkins.

Dadi released several LPs and some instructional videos before his early death. His recordings featured a mix of compositions by his American heroes and original compositions of his own in a similar style. A feature of his early LPs was that they included a tablature booklet, allowing guitarists to learn the tunes for themselves. Dadi often recorded tunes dedicated to his friends, such as “Roger Chesterfield,” dedicated to Roger C. Field with whom he first went to Nashville in 1975 to visit Chet Atkins.

His family was Jewish, and he is buried in Israel.

Marcel Dadi Net Worth

Marcel Dadi is one of the richest Guitarist from Tunisia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Marcel Dadi 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was born in Tunisia, and grew up in France.

He was killed in a plane accident off the coast of the United States.

Marcel Dadi was born in Sousse, Tunisia on 20 August 1951. Dadi, along with his immediate family, moved to Paris, France in 1954. By 1961, he started playing guitar at age 10. He joined Andre Assouline, Joseph Illouz, and Maurice Levy to form a rock instrumental band by 1964. He was inspired by the music of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, He continued to expand his musical horizons by the fluences of guitarist, Bernard Photzer, who introduced him to the music of Elvis Presley and other 1950’s rockers. Photzer also taught him the rudiments of flatpicking. As a soloist with French singer- songwriter and guitarist, Hugues Aufray, Dadi began to develop his own approach to guitar flatpicking. Since 1972, he wrote instructional articles for a Folk Music Review, where he introduced his rigorous training method, which utilizes a fingering chart, in the March 1972 issue.

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Facts & Trivia

Marcel Ranked on the list of most popular Guitarist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Tunisia. Marcel Dadi celebrates birthday on August 20 of every year.