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Mississippi-born Elmore Leonard was a blues musician known as "The King of the Slide Guitar". He played on various radio shows throughout the South and built up a following. In 1951, he recorded his first record, "Dust My Broom", for the small Trumpet Records label out of Jackson, MS. It became a "sleeper" hit, breaking through to the Top-10 charts and making him a star. Leonard recorded more than 100 songs over the next dozen years and helped to shape what eventually became known as the "Chicago Blues" sound of the postwar period. He was elected to the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in 1980.
He died of a heart attack in Chicago in 1963.- Gabriel Nahas was born in 1906 in Alexandria, Egypt from a Lebanese family who had settled in Egypt. He has two brothers, Charles and Edmond, and one sister Rose. He married Berthe Naoum in 1944 and had two children, Samir and Fouad. He is one of the major founders of the Studio Nahas in Cairo and the owner of Nahas Films, the production/distribution company, known throughout the arabic world. He died on the 24th May 1963. Two days later, the Egyptian governement nationalized the Studios Nahas. Between 1932 and 1963, he produced around sixty films among them the first Arabic color film, "Baba Aris".