RE: Julio Inglesias Jewish?

[Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky <reyzl...>]

Oh, there are so, so many examples of this.   The same applies to other 
fields as well, for example, Romanian architecture (forgot his name) or 
Russian ballet (forgot her name too) or Russian classical musicians 
(Feltsman).  After I wrote what I wrote, I went downstairs and found a 
biography on Charles Aznavour playing on the Bravo cable station, but I 
missed the first half.  I can't remember the info I once knew about him and 
Edith Piaf, but wern't/aren't at least one of them Jewish too?  That 
documentary in fact, spoke about several great French performers who were 
the chief exponents of French music in the 20th century, including Jacque 
Brel (who was Jewish) and what in their backgrounds propelled their 
phenomenal ambitions to become who they became.   Aznavour credited severe 
poverty as the factor that propelled him, but as I say, I missed the whole 
beginning where full backgrounds of the stars were given.


Reyzl


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From:  Paul M. Gifford[SMTP:PGIFFORD (at) flint(dot)umich(dot)edu]
Sent:  Wednesday, July 07, 1999 1:32 PM
To:  World music from a Jewish slant
Subject:  RE: Julio Inglesias Jewish?

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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