Misha Demitro Tsiganoff better known as Mishka Ziganoff, sometimes also spelled as Tziganoff (Odesa, January 15, 1889 – New York City, February 1967) was an American musician born in the Russian Empire.
[1] Misha, son of Yanchie Demitro Tsiganoff and Vorgja Nickolama, was a Roma musician originally from Odesa, then part of the Russian Empire, who moved to New York at the beginning of the 20th-century, where he opened a restaurant.
Virtuoso accordionist, Mishka Ziganoff, despite being a Christian, was well versed in Yiddish and Klezmer music.
In 1919 he recorded a disc that contained the song "Koilen", whose melody, as reported by the research by the scholar Fausto Giovannardi, would be very similar and probably would have inspired a part of the melody of the famous Italian partisan song "Bella ciao".
Ziganoff is mentioned in the 1983 film Angelo My Love, written and directed by Robert Duvall.