Ρόζα Εσκενάζυ {Roza Eskenazi} (d.1980) was a Turkish-born Greek singer, one of the foremost early recording artists and performers of rembetika. Eskenazi was born Sarah Skinazi to a Sephardic Jewish family in Constantinople. Her date of birth is unknown; although she claims - in her autobiography - to have been born in 1910, researchers have offered dates between 1883 and 1900. Eskenazi moved with her family to Thessaloniki when she was about seven years old. She never attended school, but learnt to read and write from a neighbour. She also learnt to speak Greek, having been brou…
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