Editing Marcel Dadi (section)

==Biography==
===Early life===
Marcel Dadi was born in [[Sousse]], [[Tunisia]] on 20 August 1951. Dadi, along with his immediate family, moved to [[Paris, France]] in 1954. In 1961, he started playing guitar at age 10. He had joined Andre Assouline, Joseph Illouz, and [[Maurice Levy (musician)|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 with the influence of a 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 [[France|French]] singer-songwriter and guitarist, [[Hugues Aufray]], Dadi began to develop his own approach to flatpicking.  From 1972, he wrote instructional articles for Folk Music Review, wherein he introduced his rigorous training method, which utilizes a fingering chart, in the March 1972 issue.

===Career===
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.

Marcel Dadi immigrated to [[Eilat]] ([[Israel]]) on the [[Red Sea]], in 1983, and lived there with his wife and young son for several years before moving back to France. In 1988, [[Eric Clapton]], his longtime family friend, came to Eilat to visit Marcel Dadi.