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X was the queen of rembetika, the Greek blues, a genre that sprang up in the Aegean’s port towns in the 1920s. X was born Sarah Skinazi in Constantinople, probably in the 1890s. X recorded about 500 songs in the following decade, becoming one of several Greek artists and the first woman to be flown to the US to record for Columbia. She sang in Greek, Turkish, Armenian, Arabic, Yiddish, Ladino and Italian. Misirlou, one of her songs, would appear on the soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction. ID X.
X was the queen of rembetika, the Greek blues, a genre that sprang up in the Aegean’s port towns in the 1920s. X was born Sarah Skinazi in Constantinople, probably in the 1890s. X recorded about 500 songs in the following decade, becoming one of several Greek artists and the first woman to be flown to the US to record for Columbia. She sang in Greek, Turkish, Armenian, Arabic, Yiddish, Ladino and Italian. Misirlou, one of her songs, would appear on the soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction. ID X.
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