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ARTIST
ESKENAZI, ROZA
TITLE
Rembetissa
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
FANTOME PHONOGRAPHIQUE
CATALOG #
OME 1026LP
OME 1026LP
GENRE
WORLD
RELEASE DATE
8/14/2020
Roza Eskenazi
was a giant of rembetika, the urban Greek music of Ottoman origin associated with the poor underclass. Eskenazi's life was extraordinary: born
Sarah Spinazi
to a poor Sephardic Jewish family in Constantinople, probably in the mid-1890s, after an itinerant childhood, she began dancing at the Grand Hotel Theatre in Thessaloniki. She eloped with the wealthy
Yiannis Zardinidis
around 1913, with whom she bore a son, but after his untimely death in 1917, she placed the son in the care of an orphanage and moved to Athens, where she danced with Armenian cabaret artists. Eventually, the composer
Panagiotis Toundas
discovered her singing and arranged her first recordings for Columbia Records in 1929, which catapulted her to fame. Cutting over 500 songs in the 1930s, she became the leading exponent of the Smyrna school of rembetika. Running a nightclub in Athens during the German occupation of World War II, she hid resistance fighters and British spies and helped many Jewish families flee the country. She finally toured the USA in the 1950s, and though her career subsequently waned, a 1970s revival led to further work. The longevity of her output is such that her song "Misirlu" was included on the soundtrack of
Pulp Fiction
; the 21 gems collected here were recorded between 1931 and 1947.
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