Yasmin Levy

As an Israeli singer-songwriter, she is best known for bring a modern flamenco-inspired spin to traditional Turkish music. She comes from a musical family: her father, Yitzhak Levy, was pioneer researcher into the history of the Ladino music and culture of Spanish Jewry and its diaspora. Also an activist, she has won awards for her efforts to open cross-cultural dialogue amongst musicians!

As an Israeli singer-songwriter, she is best known for bring a modern flamenco-inspired spin to traditional Turkish music. She comes from a musical family: her father, Yitzhak Levy, was pioneer researcher into the history of the Ladino music and culture of Spanish Jewry and its diaspora. Also an activist, she has won awards for her efforts to open cross-cultural dialogue amongst musicians!

Sephardic Singer - Celebrating The New Year! Yasmin Levy was born on December 23, 1975, in Baka, Jerusalem. She comes from a Sephardic Jewish background, and her parents were immigrants from Turkey. This diverse heritage has strongly influenced her music and artistic expression. shemspeed.bandcamp.com

As an Israeli singer-songwriter, she is best known for bring a modern flamenco-inspired spin to traditional Turkish music. She comes from a musical family: her father, Yitzhak Levy, was pioneer researcher into the history of the Ladino music and culture of Spanish Jewry and its diaspora. Also an activist, she has won awards for her efforts to open cross-cultural dialogue amongst musicians!

Yasmin Levy does not actually compose the melodies she writes. They "land" on her, she says, "like a gift from heaven. I can go to the grocery store to buy milk - and come back with milk and a melody." These melodies, which come to her infrequently and number perhaps five per year, generally surface along with a word or a phrase, always in Spanish. Around all these Levy builds her lyrics.

Israeli-Spanish singer and songwriter from Jerusalem that is revitalizing medieval Judeo song style with flamenco elements.

Yasmin Levy is an Israeli-Spanish singer-songwriter of Judeo-Spanish music. She is performing in Seattle November 11th @ SJCC Stroum Jewish Community Center

Yasmin Levy is an Israeli-Spanish singer-songwriter of Judeo-Spanish music.Yasmin Levy is performing in Seattle 11/11 @ SJCC Stroum Jewish Community Center

Tel Aviv. Yasmin Levy is an Israeli-Spanish singer-songwriter of Judeo-Spanish music. 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 instruments like the darbuka, oud, violin, cello, and piano. In Seattle at the Stroum Jewish Community Center Nov. 11