Moroccan-French opera singer (born 1981)
David Serero (born 22 April 1981) is a Moroccan-French baritone opera singer. He has played more than 1,500 concerts worldwide, and lead roles in opera, theater and musicals such as Cyrano "(Cyrano de Bergerac)", Shylock ("The Merchant of Venice"), Othello ("Othello"), Nabucco ("Nabucco"), Don Quixote ("Man of La Mancha"), Richard III ("Richard III"), Napoleon Bonaparte, Escamillo ("Carmen"), Enrico ("Lucia di Lammermoor"), Amonasro ("Aida"), the title roles of Don Giovanni and Rigoletto and starred in more than 100 films and TV series. He has toured in America, Europe, Middle East, Asia and Russia. In 2017, David Serero was honored in "Marquis Who's Who" for outstanding achievement in the entertainment world and for his contribution for the betterment of contemporary society. He is a member of the Recording Academy (Grammys) and the Television Academy of Arts &amp; Sciences (Emmys), for which he is both a voting member. In 2019, he is named one of the top most influential Moroccans by airline Royal Air Maroc, and received the 2019 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2020, he receives the Award for Diversity by the Unesco. He wins the 2020 BroadwayWorld Awards for Best Performer of the decade, Best Producer of a Musical of the decade, Best Producer of a Play of the decade. The Mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, awards him with the Certificate of Recognition for his contributions to the City of New York.
Early life and education.
Born in Paris to a Moroccan Jewish family from Fez, Serero studied jazz piano at the American School of Modern Music and at the Bill Evans Piano Academy in Paris. He graduated from both of these schools as a pianist and arranger. He lived in New York from 2001 to 2003, where he studied singing with teachers from Broadway and from the Metropolitan Opera and acting at the HB Studio where he played Stanley from "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams, Uncle Louie from "Lost in Yonkers" by Neil Simon and Marc Anthony from "Julius Caesar" by Shakespeare. Serero moved to St Petersburg, Russia, to study at the Rimsky-Korsakov Music Conservatory where he made his debut as Scarpia ("Tosca") and Germont ("La traviata"). Following these performances, he was invited by Valery Gergiev to be part of the Young Singers Academy of the Mariinsky Theater. In 2020, he receives the Award for Diversity by the UNESCO.
Career.
In 2006, Serero made his European debut in the role of Escamillo "(Carmen)" at the Brasov Opera and returned the following year to perform the Four Villains ("The Tales of Hoffmann"). Following these performances, he was named Ambassador of the City of Brasov. His American debut took place the next year, when he performed as Alfio "(Cavalliera rusticana)" and Canio ("Pagliacci)" in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. In 2008, he performed Dr Malatesta ("Don Pasquale") with the Centre Philharmonic Orchestra in Bordeaux, and returned to the Brasov Opera, where he received the Encouragement Prize from the Bizet Foundation for his performance of Zurga in "The Pearl Fishers". In 2009, he performed Enrico "(Lucia di Lammermoor)" and Escamillo in Florida, and in July, was selected to be part of the opera competition Operalia, founded by Plácido Domingo, at the Budapest Opera and Pecs Opera.
In 2010, he performed more than 50 performances of the lead roles from the operetta "La Périchole" and "La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein" in Paris. And also performed Zapata from the operetta "Le Chanteur de Mexico" in Nice. In June 2010, he performed a concert in front of the Eiffel Tower for more than 18 000 people. From September 2010 to June 2011, Serero performed at the Opera du Ranelagh in Paris, which included a concert with pianist Cyprien Katsaris. In April 2011, he sang at the Olympia in Paris. In June 2010, he performed three concerts in Vladikavkaz (Russia) with singers Zarina Maliti and Felix Tsarikati. In June 2011, he performed at the Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow with Iossif Kobzon. That same month, he played the part of the bodyguard in the movie Chinese Zodiac CZ12, directed by Jackie Chan. In July 2011, he performed the lead role of the first opera in Hebrew, "The Dybbuk", at the Kfar Blum Festival, Israel, and performed a concert at the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem for Israelis and Palestinians children. In September 2011, he performed a concert at the Synagogue of Nazareth in Paris for the European Day of Jewish Culture. In December 2011, he performed in Nouméa (New Caledonia) and in Saint Denis (Reunion Island).
In January 2012, he performed Valiente from operetta "Andalousia" in Lyon and in March, he performed the lead role of Don Quixote from the musical "Man of La Mancha" in Paris, Tokyo and Deauville. He received the award of best Actor/singer as Don Quixote from the Dale Wasserman Foundation in Los Angeles.
In April 2012, he performed his debut at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
In June 2012, he founded the first Paris Musical Film Festival with the City Hall of Paris.
In both July 2012 and 2013, he performed for the President of Israel, Shimon Peres, and performed a concert at the Felicja Blumenthal in Tel-Aviv.
In October 2012, he performed his West End debut at the Dominion Theatre in London.
In November 2012, he performed in Paris in the lead role of Happy Mac from Duke Ellington's only Broadway musical "Beggar's Holiday". Serero also sang the title role in the first cast album recording. 
In January 2013, Serero wrote, directed and produced the musical "You Are Not Alone", in which he starred with Jermaine Jackson. Serero also arranged and produced "I Wish You Love," Jackson's album of Jazz Standards. In this album they both recorded a duet on Autumn Leaves.
In April 2013 and 2014, he performed at the Royal College of Music in London for the Festival of Russian songs and was also a Jury member of the competition.
In May 2013, he released his solo debut album All I Care About is Love.
He also sang the French national anthem for French president, Nicolas Sarkozy.
In June 2013, he founded the 1st London Musical Film Festival at the Bush Hall.
In August 2013, he performed a concert series in Capri, Italy.
In September 2013, he performed in Singapore at the French Alliance. In November 2013, he performed at the Wembley Stadium in London and performed a concert in St Petersburg. This same month he performed his One Man Opera Show at the Theatre La Bruyere and a concert at the Grand Synagogue of Paris La Victoire.
In December 2013, he made his solo Broadway debut at the Bernstein Theatre with his One Man Musical Show.
2014.
In January 2014, he shared the cover of "Theatre &amp; Performance" magazine in London with Barbra Streisand; he released the album The Broadway Baritone, Volume 1, with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra in April of that year.
In April/May 2014, he performed a UK Tour in London at the Leicester Square Theatre, Birmingham, Liverpool and at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. During this tour, he was featured on London Buses. In that same month, he recorded the anthem for the Brazil World Soccer Cup.
He performed his One Man Musical Show at the Theatre du Gymnase in Paris for more than 100 performances from May to September 2014; in June, he was featured at the RASIA Festival in Moscow.
In July, he released the album and the video recording of You Are Not Alone, the Musical performed with Jermaine Jackson in 2013, and a documentary called "I Wish You Love, the Making Of" about the recording of Jackson's new album.
In the summer 2014, he recorded all the Napoleon's love letters to Josephine and performed a reading in Paris. He was also starring in the French films Eva &amp; Leon (Emilie Cherpitel) and Nous Trois ou Rien (Kheiron). In September, he released his new album The Crooner Baritone, The Frank Sinatra Classics. He is on the cover of A Nos Arts Magazine in France.
From October to December, he returns to Broadway with his One Man Musical Show at the Bernstein Theater and is selected in the final of the Duke Ellington Vocal Jazz Competition as part of the Duke Ellington Americana Jazz Festival in New York.
He released the single of his new musical Scarface, the musical that he wrote and produced to take place on Broadway by 2017. This musical is based on Al Capone's life and the eponym film made famous by Al Pacino.
From November 2014 to May 2016 he performed the part of Chef Bruno from musical TRUFFLES in New York. For Christmas, he performed his musical comedy "Xmas for Jews – A Comic Jewish Tragedy" at the Zanger Hall in New York.
He performed lead roles in several films in New York such as "The Kingdom of the Alley" (as Marco) and "Ring Ring" (as the burglar) by Stephen Skeel, "Super Paradise" (as Adam the Rabbi) by Nour Matimush, "Capicola" (as Ralphie) by Mark Aiello, "Laundry Day" (as Angelo the mobster) by Jake Peterson, "Ransom" (as Mr Butler) by Brendan Duffy, There will come soft rains (Alonse) by Danielle Boyd and Amarena (Benny's father) by Andrew Abballe.
In December, he performed a concert at the French Embassy of New York and at the American Sephardi Federation.
He performed "New York, New York" on the New Year's Eve TV show "Le 31 tout est permis avec Arthur" on TF1 in France.
2015.
In January 2015, he released the album "David Serero chante Luis Mariano JAZZ!". He arranged and produced this album, performed in French language, dedicated to Luis Mariano.
He appeared in New York 180 (as Alfredo the tailor) by Hongkai Sun, Day to Night (as Saleem) in the horror film directed by Ana Pasisanos and produced by Larry Fessenden, Paisanos in Paris (as Francois) by Ernie Zahn, Near it all by Woody Lewis, Crime Scene: Do Not Cross (as Detective Jack) by Katie Huang, Speedy (as Ali) by Ameer Kazmi, Make it work / How we do it (as the executive) by Nicholas Bruckman with Adrienne C Moore, Gangs of New York – Blood Feuds for Discovery Channel by Andrea de Brito, Alice in America (as the Lottery investigator), Tango Shalom (as the cantor) by Gabriel Bologna, Again (as James) by Omar Salgado, Overload (as Sal) by Mark Aiello, The Redemption (as the violent father) by Steve Carmona, Sorry Charlie (as Adileh's father) by Lawrence Sharp, Hooligans (as the deli owner) by Patrick Lizza, Suddenly Rich (as the real estate agent) for TLC TV, Whistleblowers (CIA Agent) for Spike TV.
In March 2015, he played the parts of Christopher Sly &amp; Vincentio from "The Taming of the Shrew" by Shakespeare at the New York Public Library.
In April 2015, he starred as the lead in the commercial between Sotheby's and eBay partnership in New York.
In May 2015, he played the parts of King Edward and Ratcliff in Richard III by Shakespeare in New York with the Oxford Shakespeare Company directed by Ron Destro, and in that same month he played the lead role of Marcel Proust in the play "Proust &amp; Joyce at the Hotel Majestic" at the French Consulate of New York.
In June 2015, he played Off-Broadway the lead role of Shylock from "The Merchant of Venice" by Shakespeare at the Center for Jewish History in New York to critical acclaim and is featured on Yahoo! Small Business for his expertise on Producing theater. He was the guest artist to perform at the New York Jewish Music Festival and performed the annual Gala at the National Arts Club of New York. He played the roles of Lewis the Dauphin and Robert Faulconbridge from "King John" by Shakespeare at the New York Public Library.
He releases the album Richard III, by Shakespeare, in French language adapted by Serero. In September, he performed for the New York Fashion Week and produces the debut album of Russian singer Zarina Maliti on his record label. He announces his new TV Series called "Napoleon in New York" for which he wrote and stars as Napoleon.
On September 26 and 27, he performed two open air concerts on Times Square for Best of France with the presence of French President François Hollande. He was also the Master of Ceremony of this event with the Moulin Rouge. On October, he released his new album Sephardi featuring Sephardi songs in Ladino language which he arranged and produced and a 100% vocal