Yasmin Levy
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Yasmin Levy in 2008
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| Background information | |
| Born |
December 23, 1975 Jerusalem |
| Origin | Jerusalem, Israel |
| Genres | Sephardic music, world, flamenco |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Labels | Adama |
| Website | yasminlevy |
Yasmin Levy (Hebrew: יסמין לוי; born December 23, 1975 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli-Spanish singer-songwriter of Judeo-Spanish music.
Levy is of Sephardic descent from the city of İzmir, Turkey. Her late father, Yitzhak Isaac Levy (1919–1977), was a composer and hazzan (cantor), as well as a pioneer researcher into the long and rich history of the Ladino music and culture of Spanish Jewry and its diaspora, being the editor of the Ladino language magazine Aki Yerushalayim.
With her distinctive and emotive style, Levy has brought a new interpretation to the medieval Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) song by incorporating more "modern" sounds of Andalusian flamenco and Persian, as well as combining instruments like the darbuka, oud, violin, cello, and piano.
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 (Spanish: The Jewish Quarter). In 2006, she was nominated again, then in the category "Culture Crossing".
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