Salomone "Moni" Ovadia, also known as Moni Ovadia, was born on April 16, 1946,
in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, and is a Bulgarian-born Italian Jewish actor, musician,
singer, theatrical author, and activist. His family fled to Italy in 1949 due to
rising anti-Semitism. In Milan, Ovadia attended the local Jewish school and
later graduated in political science. He began his music career as a singer and
musician with the band Almanacco Popolare under Roberto Leydi. In 1972, he
founded the Gruppo Folk Internazionale, which evolved into the Ensemble Havadià
in 1978, focusing on traditional Ital...