ISTANBUL – Israeli singer and songwriter Yasmin Levy
said on Friday that she would go to Palestine for a concert if she was
invited.In an exclusive interview with AA, Levy said violence and deaths in the Middle East could no way be justified.
Levy said she would willingly go to Palestine for a concert if the Palestinians invited her.The Israeli musician is actually in Istanbul to give concerts in Turkey.Levy said she knew that wars would end one day, however things would not change so easily. She said there had been an ongoing dispute between her country and Palestine, and he could go to a concert in Palestine if she was invited.The musician said the lyrics of a song she would sing for the two countries would be, “I am extending my hand my brother, and you extend yours too, and we touch each other, we need this.”Levy said there would be a song in such lyrics in her new album, and she wished she could go to Palestine but regretted that politicians were making such a thing difficult.
An Israeli singer-songwriter of Judaeo-Spanish music, Yasmin Levy’s father was also a composer and cantor.With her distinctive and emotive style, Yasmin has brought a new interpretation to the medieval Ladino/Judeo-Spanish song by incorporating more “modern” sounds of Andalusian Flamenco and Persian, as well as combining instruments like the darbuka, oud, violin, cello, and piano.Yasmin’s work earned her the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation Award for promoting cross-cultural dialogue between musicians from three cultures.
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