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My Sweet Canary
''My Sweet Canary'' (greek language, Greek: Καναρίνι μου Γλυκό) is a France, French-Greece, Greek-Israeli-Germany, German documentary film from 2011 about the life of Jewish-Greek rebetiko singer Roza Eskenazi. Its director is the State of Israel, Israeli Roy Sher. In the movie, Martha Demeteri Lewis, Tomer Katz and Mehtap Demir, three young musicians, look for the most famous singers of rebetiko and especially with the intention of learning more about the music career of Roza Eskenazi, as they travel between London, Jerusalem, Corinth, Istanbul, Athens and Salonika. Music The music of the film is sung by the Israeli people, Israeli Yasmin Levy, the Greek people, Greeks Maria Koti, Martha D Lewis, Sotiris Papatragiannis and the Turkish people, Turkish Mehtap Demir. In the film also participate the Greek singer Haris Alexiou, the Israeli Tomer Katz, playing the oud and the bouzouki and the Turkish Mumin Sesler, playing the Kanun (instrument), kanun. The film was pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roza Eskenazi
Roza Eskenazi (mid-1890s – 2 December 1980, Greek: Ρόζα Εσκενάζυ) was a famous Jewish-Greek dancer and singer of ''rebetiko'', Greek folk music, Kanto and Turkish folk music born in Istanbul, whose recording and stage career extended from the late 1920s into the 1970s. Childhood Eskenazi was born Sarah Skinazi to an impoverished Sephardic Jewish family in Istanbul, in the Constantinople Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. Throughout her career she hid her real date of birth, and claimed to have been born in 1910. In fact, she was at least a decade older, and was likely born sometime between 1895 and 1897. Her father, Avram Skinazi, owned a storage facility. In addition to Roza, he and his wife Flora had another daughter and two sons, Nisim, the eldest, and Sami. Shortly after the turn of the century, the Skinazi family relocated to Thessaloniki, then still under Ottoman rule. The city was undergoing rapid economic expansion at the time, with its population growing by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
