Yasmin Levy

Yasmin Levy

Yasmin Levy, born on December 231975 in Jerusalem, is an Israeli singer of Sephardic music. Her late father, Yitzhak Levy, was a pioneer researcher into the long and rich history of the Ladino music and culture of Spanish Jewry and its diaspora. With her distinctive and emotive style, Yasmin has brought a new interpretation to the medieval Ladino/Judeo-Spanish song by incorporating more "modern" sounds of Andalusian Flamenco, as well as traditional instruments like the oud, violin, cello, and piano. In her second album, "La Judería" (Sp: "The Jewish Quarter"), she also covered the popular songs "Gracias a la Vida" by Violeta Parra and "Nací en Alamó" from the film "Vengo", directed by Tony Gatlif, which in its original version won the 2001 César Award for Best Music Written for a Film.

Her debut album was "Romance & Yasmin" in 2000, which earned her a nomination as Best Newcomer for the fRoots / BBC Radio 3 World Music Awards 2005, followed in 2005 with her second album "La Juderia". In 2006 she was nominated again, then in the category "Culture Crossing". [Cite web
url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/worldmusic/a4wm2006/a4wm_yasmin.shtml
title = BBC - Radio 3 - Awards for World Music 2006 - Yasmin Levy
publisher = BBC
accessdate = 2008-04-19]

Yasmin's work earned her the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation Award for promoting cross-cultural dialogue between musicians from three cultures. [>Cite web
url = http://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/About/08EventMediaRelease_YasminLevy.aspx
title =2008 Event Media Release - Yasmin Levy
publisher = Sydney Opera House
accessdate = 2008-08-19] In her own words:

"I am proud to combine the two cultures of Ladino and flamenco, while mixing in Middle Eastern influences. I am embarking on a 500 years old musical journey, taking Ladino to Andalusia and mixing it with flamenco, the style that still bears the musical memories of the old Moorish and Jewish-Spanish world with the sound of the Arab world. In a way it is a ‘musical reconciliation’ of history." [Cite web
url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/worldmusic/a4wm2007/2007_yasmin_levy.shtml
title = BBC - Awards for World Music 2007 - Yasmin Levy
publisher = BBC
accessdate = 2008-08-19]

Yamin is currently on a world tour to promote her new album "Mano Suave", which was released in October 2007.

Discography

* 2000: "Romance & Yasmin"
* 2005: "La Judería"
* 2006: "Live at the Tower of David, Jerusalem"
* 2007: "Mano Suave"

ee also

* Natacha Atlas

External links

* [http://www.yasminlevy.net/ Official Homepage]
* [http://www.myspace.com/yasminlevy Official Myspace page]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20061016100712/http://www.fly.co.uk/fly/archives/africamiddle_east_features/yasmin_levy.html Interview with Yasmin Levy] , Fly magazine.
* [http://www.j-comm.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=408&Itemid=104 Video sample: La Alegría by Yasmin Levy]

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