David Arugete (Hebrew: דריו מורנו; 3 April 1921 – 1 December 1968), commonly known under his stage name Darío Moreno, was a Turkish-Jewish polyglot singer, an accomplished composer, lyricist, and guitarist.

He started working as an errand boy in the law firm of the city's prominent lawyers and was eventually trained to become an office clerk.

After he started making money from his music, he moved to the better-off Jewish quarter of Karataş and lived in a house in a street leading to the historic Asansör, one of the city's landmark buildings (whose name means the "Elevator" since it carried people by elevator to the upper part of the quarter which was separated from the lower coastal area by a steep slope).

Darío Moreno died of a heart attack after an argument between him and a member of the gate staff at Atatürk Airport in İstanbul.

In Europe, the song became popular with the help of Bob Azzam (a Lebanese singer who was born in Egypt in 1925 and died in Monte Carlo in 2004), who released it in 1960 in France with lyrics consisting of at least 3 languages: "Chérie je t'aime, chéri je t'adore – come la salsa del pomodoro" (Darling, I love you, darling, I adore you – like tomato sauce).

During that era, a large cosmopolitan polyglot community, mainly Turks, Greeks, Jews, Armenians and Italians, lived in the Egyptian city.