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Roza Eskenazi

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Born in:Constantinopel,
Greece
Year of death:1980

Biography

(source: wikipedia)

Roza Eskenazi (mid-1890s – 2 December 1980, Greek: Ρόζα Εσκενάζυ) was a 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.
Eskenazi was born Sarah Skinazi to an impoverished Sephardic Jewish family in Istanbul, Jewish Women's Archive|website=jwa.org|access-date=2019-08-21}} in the Constantinople Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. Throughout her career she hid her real date of birth, and claimed to... more

Also known as

  • Rosa Eskenazi
  • Roza Eskenazy
  • Sarah Skinazi
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