Yasmin Levy

Yasmin Levy can be an Israeli vocalist who performs Ladino music with today’s twist, an infusion of flamenco specifically. Born on Dec 23, 1975, in Jerusalem, Levy learned all about Ladino music and lifestyle from her dad, Yitzhak Levy, a researcher of Ladino, the Judeo-Spanish vocabulary from the Sephardic Jewish neighborhoods that were powered from Spain in the past due 15th hundred years. Levy’s songs are usually sung in Ladino, and her music is normally made up of traditional musical instruments such as for example oud, violin, and cello; nevertheless, she also infuses her music with an increase of modern styles such as for example flamenco. Levy’s debut record, Love & Yasmin (2000), garnered some interest, particularly after getting reissued internationally in 2004 and getting her a nomination for Greatest Newcomer on the 2005 BBC Radio 3 Globe Music Honours. Her follow-up record, La Judería: Ladino Fits Flamenco (2005), can be more typical from the design that she’d carry forwards on following albums such as for example Live on the Tower of David, Jerusalem (2006) and Mano Suave (2008). These follow-up initiatives had been acclaimed, for example earning her additional BBC Radio 3 Globe Music Prize nominations, plus they also had been commercially effective on a global size, with Mano Suave, for example, charting in France and learning to be a Top Ten strike in Sweden. Levy’s following full-length was Sentir, released in Sept 2009.