Sephardic music is an umbrella term used to refer to the music of the Sephardic Jewish community. Sephardic Jews have a diverse repertoire the origins of which center primarily around the Mediterranean basin. In the secular tradition, material is usually sung in dialects of Judeo-Spanish, though other languages including Hebrew, Turkish, Greek, and other local languages of the Sephardic diaspora are widely used. Sephardim maintain geographically unique liturgical and para-liturgical traditions.
Jordi Savall i Bernadet is a Spanish conductor, composer and viol player. He has been one of the major figures in the field of Western early music since the 1970s, largely responsible for popularizing the viol family of instruments in contemporary performance and recording. As a historian of early music his repertoire features everything from medieval, Renaissance and Baroque through to the Classical and Romantic periods. He has incorporated non-western musical traditions in his work; including African vernacular music for a documentary on slavery.
Maria del Mar Bonet i Verdaguer is a Spanish singer from the island of Majorca.
Susana Esther Baca de la Colina is a prominent Peruvian singer-songwriter, school teacher, folklorist, ethnomusicologist and three-time Latin Grammy Award winner. She has been a key figure in the revival of Afro-Peruvian music.
Juan del Encina was a composer, poet, priest, and playwright, often credited as the joint-father of Spanish drama, alongside Gil Vicente. His birth name was Juan de Fermoselle. He spelled his name Enzina, but this is not a significant difference; it is two spellings of the same sound, in a time when "correct spelling" as we know it barely existed.
Ovidi Montllor was a Valencian singer-songwriter and actor.
Estampie is a German music group, founded in 1985 by Sigrid Hausen, Michael Popp and Ernst Schwindl. The band plays primarily medieval music, with some modern influences from world and minimalist music.
Matilde Salvador Segarra was a Spanish composer and painter.
The Cancionero de Palacio, or Cancionero Musical de Palacio (CMP), also known as Cancionero de Barbieri, is a Spanish manuscript of Renaissance music. The works in it were compiled during a time span of around 40 years, from the mid-1470s until the beginning of the 16th century, approximately coinciding with the reign of the Catholic Monarchs.
Capella de Ministrers is an early music group formed in 1987 in Valencia, Spain by Carles Magraner. Valencian music is prominent in its repertoire.
Bartomeu Càrceres, Bartolomé Cárceres in castillian, was a Spanish composer, notably of ensaladas.
Samuel Gordon Armistead was an American ethnographer, linguist, folklorist, historian, literary critic and professor of Spanish. He is considered one of the most notable Hispanist scholars of the second half of the 20th and early 21st century.
Sarah Aroeste is an American singer and composer. Her music is often referred to as "feminist Ladino rock." She also writes books for children with Sephardic themes.
The Cancionero de Segovia or Cancionero Musical de Segovia (CMS), also known as Cancionero of the Segovia Cathedral, is a manuscript containing Renaissance music from the end of the 15th century and beginning of the 16th century. It contains a wide repertoire of works by mainly Spanish, French and Franco-Flemish composers. It is kept at the Segovia Cathedral Archives.
Teresa Rebull, née Teresa Soler i Pi (1919–2015), was a Catalan socialist activist, singer-songwriter and painter. The daughter of anarcho-syndicalists Gonçal Soler i Bernabeu and Balbina Pi i Sanllehy, she joined the POUM and worked as a nurse during the Spanish Civil War. She was actively involved in the May Days events and punished for that. She later escaped Spain, where she could face danger from both Stalinists and Francoists, for France. In France, she would join the Maquis after the Nazi invasion. After the war, she became a singer and was musically associated to Nova Cançó.
Alfred García Castillo is a Spanish singer-songwriter. He gained national recognition when he took part in series nine of the reality television talent competition Operación Triunfo, where he finished in fourth place, and also represented Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal, alongside Amaia Romero, with the song "Tu canción", finishing in twenty-third place.
Los Ángeles is the debut studio album by Spanish singer Rosalía, with production and arrangements by Raül Refree. It was released on 10 February 2017 by Universal Music Spain.
Per la bona gent is the fifth album by Spanish indie pop band Manel, and their first to be released on their label Ceràmiques Guzmán. It was released on 4 October 2019 and produced by Jake Aron. Music videos were filmed for "Per la bona gent" and "Boy Band". The band toured in support of the album from November 2019. The album debuted at number one on the Spanish albums chart.
Dora Juárez Kiczkovsky is a Mexican singer and filmmaker of Argentinian Jewish origin.
Sofía Noel, birth name Sophie Heyman, (1915–2011) was a Belgian-born Spanish soprano and ethnomusicologist who specialized in Sephardic music. After leaving Belgium to escape Nazi persecution, she settled in Barcelona where she worked with the composer Fernando Obradors. Shortly before his death in 1943, she sang to the accompaniment of the pianist Ricardo Viñes. In addition to singing and promoting Sephardic music, Noel also recorded Spanish songs from the Middle Ages, including those related to the country's Jewish and Arabic heritage.
