Sephardic Songs
'Sephardic' (Hebrew for Spain) refers to the Jews who lived and flourished in the Iberian Peninsula for many centuries, until they were expelled along with the Muslims in 1492. Sephardic Jews took their language and musical traditions with them in to exile and absorbed other traditions from North Africa, the Eastern Mediterranean and countries in the Middle East where they settled. The lingua franca of Sephardic Jews was Judeo-Spanish which was based on mediaeval Castilian. The Ladino ballad repertoire was a very important song tradition transmitted through the female line.
Steve Homes
and Monica Acosta
Photo: Robert Ruttenberg
Yo en prizion
Monica Acosta - voice,
Stephen Homes - guitar
Ulises Diaz - percussion
Yo en la prizion, tu en las flores
Sufro de korason, kero ke yores.
Las paredes altas, no te alkanso,
Demando salvasion del mi Dio Santo.
Song's complete text click
English translation
I am in prison, you among flowers
My heart suffers; I want you to cry too.
High are the walls, I cant reach you
I demand my sacred God for salvation.
SING SEPHARDIC!
workshops series
MARCH 22-24 2010
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Sound samples James Bull - Sound Engineer
