Bracha zefira biography definition

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Biography

Born of Yemenite parents and orphaned early in life, at the age of six Zefira was taken in by a Sephardi widow. She heard her first Judeo-Spanish romances from the women of the Yemin Moshe neighborhood.

She later learned traditional Sephardic songs from both Alberto Hemsi and Yitzhak Navon. Zefira concertized extensively in the early s and several Israeli composers later arranged her song choices.

Bracha zefira biography definition

(Hirshberg, ; Zefira, ND.)

Zefira's extensive public performances introduced the wider Israeli public to Sephardic songs for the first time, and it was squarely in an art-song, "a la Franka" style. Her recordings were mastered from onward.

A handful of her Hebrew works were issued on 78, as well as a Hebrew setting of  the melody of Yendome, set to Hebrew words as Yesh Li Gan ("I have a garden".) Zefira's songs such as Hitrag'ut