Birth name Mor Karbasi Labels Gibralter Origin Jerusalem, Israel Website www.morkarbasi.com | Occupation(s) Singer, songwriter Name Mor Karbasi Years active 2008–present Role Singer | |
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Born April 23, 1986 (age 37) ( 1986-04-23 ) Albums Daughter of the Spring, La Tsadika Genres World music, Sephardic music Similar People Dave Weckl, Yasmin Levy, Francoise Atlan, Ana Alcaide, Al Andaluz Project Profiles | ||
Mor karbasi la galana i la mar
Mor Karbasi (born April 23, 1986) is a singer-songwriter born in Jerusalem, and now based in Seville after five years in London.
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- Mor karbasi la galana i la mar
- Mor karbasi two songs looking for a new england 2 at cecil sharp house
- Musical career
- Discography
- Traditional influences
- References
One of her main projects is Ladino music, also known as Judezmo, Spanyolit, or Sephardic—the ancient language and music of the exiled Jews of Spain. She writes original material, as well as singing traditional songs. She has been compared to Mariza and Yasmin Levy, but has a strongly individual sound, whichever type of music she sings.
Karbasi's heritage is mixed Moroccan and Iranian, and according to her Moroccan Jewish grandfather, "the blood remembers," meaning that before this her ancestors came from Spain. Her connection to this culture is expressed passionately through her music.
Mor karbasi two songs looking for a new england 2 at cecil sharp house
Musical career
Karbasi's concert appearances include: Tours of Europe and USA, including appearances on London's Trafalgar Square open air stage (2006 and 2007), festival performances (Womad Festival 2007 Charlton Park, and Las Palmas-Canary Islands, Celtic Connections 2009). TV and Radio broadcasts on National French TV and BBC radio. Her first album, The Beauty and the Sea, was reviewed in The Guardian newspaper. The review called her "one of the great young divas of the global music scene."
She has also made guest appearances with groups having compatible styles, Koby Israelite, Baroque fusion 'Eclipse', Rai band Ludomix, the Pena Flamenco de Israel.
Discography
Traditional influences
Mor Karbasi collects and sings songs in Ladino, as well as European and Latin American folk, also Andalucian music sung in Hebrew with Arabic melodies and scales. The latter is called Piyyutim, and is a type of prayer traditionally only sung by men.