Written and Performed by Ioan Gyuri Pascu. Starring Lucile Julaud, Catinca Mandita, Cosmin Stamatoiu & Cristian Dumitru from Tango Tangent (www.milonga.ro) Violin: Cristi Horia Video: DianaDi Album: Electromagnetic Love – 2013
Beth Hart (born January 24, 1972) is an American singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, California, United States.
She rose to fame with the release of her 1999 single "LA Song (Out of This Town)" from her second album Screamin' for My Supper. The single was a number one hit in New Zealand, as well as reaching top 5 on the US Adult Contemporary and number 7 on the Billboard Adult Top 40 Chart. The song also aired during Episode 17 of the 10th and final season of Beverly Hills, 90210.
Beth Hart also delivered music to the end-scene of the last episode of Californication season 6, with "My California", Subsequent albums namely Seesaw and Live In Amsterdam by Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa, achieved number 1 status on the Billboard Blues Album Chart.
Hart's release Bang Bang Boom Boom rose to number 3 on the Billboard Blues Album Chart, as well as the album Don't Explain by Hart and Bonamassa. The album Seesaw rose to number 8 on the Billboard Top Independent Album Chart. Hart has had two number 1 singles in Denmark "As Good As It Gets" and "Learning To Live", as well a platinum selling album, Leave The Light On.
Hart's first album with Bonamassa, Don't Explain, went gold in The Netherlands. In 2014 Hart was nominated for a Grammy Award for Seesaw and she was also nominated for a Blues Music Award in the category 'Best Contemporary Blues Female Artist'.
"I wrote 'Better Man' for my husband Scott," Hart says. "Scott is the greatest happiness I've ever known because I know in my guts that he really loves me. He's saved by soul, my insides, he took me in and loved me long enough for me to love myself. He made me fall in love with living. He's my husband. He's my home. He's a fucking miracle”.
In deschiderea unuia dintre concertele sale, Yasmin Levi explica publicului: "vin din Israel pentru a canta muzica Sephardy – cea a evreilor care locuiau in Spania inainte de anul 1492, anul in care au fost obligati sa paraseasca teritoriul iberic'.
Textul acestor cantece este in ladino – spaniola veche vorbita acum mai bine de cinci veacuri in care apar insa si influente din alte limbi.
In ultima perioada mai ales, ea adopta o maniera vocala aparte in reliefarea unor piese din traditia ladino (pastrata – se pare – astazi de circa 200 000 de vorbitori de pe intreg globul).
Preluand nu numai talentul muzical din familie ci si acumularile cercetarilor intreprinse de tatal sau in acest domeniu timp de decenii, beneficiind de "scoala' interpretarii vocale (caci ambii parinti au fost si cantareti), Yasmin Levy nu cauta acum atat autenticitatea pieselor tipice pentru cultura ladino (caci in mod traditional au o maniera de cant destul de particulara, cu un anume vibrato, cu o ornamentatie bogata) ci a "imprumutat' elemente caracteristice pentru stilul muzical Flamenco, preluand accentele sale temperamentale, uneori chiar si energia sa ritmica.
Varietatea imaginilor expresive ilustrate de muzica interpretata de Yasmin Levy atesta si influentele diferitelor genuri actuale sau zone culturale spre care artista si-a indreptat atentia, in dorinta evidenta de a aduce in prim plan mesajul sau de promovare a acestui univers ladino. (De exemplu, in mai 2011 s-a aflat pe scena salii Olympia din Paris, alaturi de Enrico Macias, oferind – in duet – muzica ladino!).
Cantareata si compozitoare, YASMIN LEVY, s-a format intr-o familie de cercetatori ai istoriei culturii ladino (muzica iudeo-spaniola).
Contributia sa originala se concretizeaza prin introducerea elementelor de flamenco, ori de provenienta persana, araba, greaca, slava, franceza in structurile clasice ale genului.
A debutat discografic in 2000, obtinand de la inceput recunoasteri in show-bizz. A fost promovata si de fundatia Anna Lindh pentru realizarile in maniera crossing, pe care artista o considera o "reconciliere muzicala a istoriei'.
Yasmin Levy (born on December 23, 1975 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli singer-songwriter of Judeo-Spanish music.
Levy is of Sephardic descent from the city of Izmir, 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".
On her second album, La Judería, she also covered the popular songs "Gracias a la Vida" by Violeta Parra and "Nací en Alamó" from the film Vengo, directed by Tony Gatlif, which in its original version won the 2001 César Award for Best Music Written for a Film (itself being a cover of "The Song of the Gypsies" (Greek: "Το Τραγούδι των Γύφτων"), written by Greek songwriter Dionysis Tsaknis in 1990).
Levy's work earned her the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation Award for promoting cross-cultural dialogue between musicians from three cultures. In her own words: “I am proud to combine the two cultures of Ladino and flamenco, while mixing in Middle Eastern influences. I am embarking on a 500 years old musical journey, taking Ladino to Andalusia and mixing it with flamenco, the style that still bears the musical memories of the old Moorish and Jewish-Spanish world with the sound of the Arab world. In a way it is a ‘musical reconciliation’ of history”.
Levy is a goodwill ambassador for the charity Children of Peace.
Discography
Yasmin Levy in concert in Warsaw, September 2008 (Mano Suave World Tour)
Full albums
2004: Romance & Yasmin
2005: La Judería
2006: Live at the Tower of David, Jerusalem
2007: Mano Suave
2009: Sentir
2012: Libertad (release date: October 2012)
2014: Tango (release date: October 2014)
Singles for movie soundtracks
2011: "Jaco", for My Sweet Canary (featuring the oud player Tomer Katz)
2011: "Una Pastora", for My Sweet Canary (featuring the qanun player Mumin Sesler)
Collaborations[edit]
2008: Tzur Mishelo Achalnu, for Avoda Ivrit 2, featuring Shlomo Bar.
2010: Tzur Mishelo Achalnu, for Kol HaNeshama, featuring Shlomo Bar.
2012: Yigdal, for Yehuda Halevi Pinat Ibn Gabirol - The Collection
