RE: Julio Inglesias Jewish?

[Paul M. Gifford <PGIFFORD...>]

Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky <reyzl (at) flash(dot)net> wrote:
> 
> Assuming that he is really Jewish (as opposed to having a little Jewish 
> blood in him), what is interesting to me in all of this is that here we 
> have another Jew who aims for the best of the popular music of his country, 
> a la Striesand in America, Yves Montand in France, Emil Gorovitz in Russia 
> before emigrating to Israel (then America), I forget the name of the singer 
> in Egypt, and a whole slew of other Jews too numerous to mention who worked 
> very hard to become the chief exponents of their country's music.  This 
> goes for performers, composers, record producers, etc. 

To add to this list, there is Gica Petrescu, now about 80, who is 
Romania's best-known popular singer (folk music, tangos, a little bit 
of everything).  Dorel Livianu, another similar singer, recorded a lot 
there in the '30s and emigrated to Israel in the early '50s. A friend 
of mine who played a lot with Petrescu in the '70s told me this, 
although he probably changed his name to hide his origins. Maybe 
it wouldn't have been possible in Romania to have such a career with 
a Jewish name.

Paul Gifford

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