Thanks, Jack, I'll keep an eye out for Simon Elbaz. I have two recordings of Fel Shara, neither one mentions him. One recording says nothing at all about the song. The other is by KlezRoym, and the liner notes say, "Fel Shara is a traditional Sephardic love song that effortlessly blends five different languages (Ladino, Italian, French, English and Arabic). The languages shift in mid-phrase, switching between English and French or Italian and Arabic from one word to the next. The song is a perfect example of how both the music and language of the Spanish Jews came to absorb, over the centuries, the musical traditions and languages of the different countries where they settled."