Róza Eskenázi

Arguably the most well-known of most Greek singers, Róza Eskenázi was created in Istanbul on the turn from the 20th century. A Sephardic Jew whose music drew great motivation in the era’s Turkish vocalists, she transferred with her family members to Thrace as a kid, and in 1922 relocated to Athens, where she started performing in cafés for guidelines. Discovered with the renowned composer and documenting professional Panayotis Tundas, Eskenázi started growing her repertoire at his encouragement to add popular songs in the Greek mainland; as time passes her reputation begun to develop, and by the 1930s she was among the country’s most well-known performers, especially among the Greek diaspora. Her popularity rested on effective shows of rembetika music including “Teen Butcher,” “Small Mary” and “Among the Beauties of Athens,” and by the 1940s she was also documenting regularly in america. Eskenázi passed away in 1981.