[1] The Institut européen des musiques juives describes his work as combining "popular Moroccan songs, ancient and modern, classical Andalusian singing, and liturgical chanting, to which he integrated melodies from Turkey and Central Europe.
[1] He later perfected his technique by attending the "Conservatoire de Musique" in Casablanca and by following some of the most revered Algerian masters of Andalusian music.
Having access to the Moroccan palace, he was one of the most preferred singers of Mohammed V. In 1955 in Casablanca, Elmaghribi established his own record label, Samyphone.
[2][3] In the beginning of the 1960s, the Israeli record label Zakiphon,[4] which specialized in the music of Maghrebi Jews, pressed and distributed Samyphone albums in Israel.
From 1988 to 1994, Elmaghribi served there as music director and led a student choir that developed into the Israeli Andalusian Orchestra.