@article{2017,title={ABOUT LOVE AND SEPARATION: ROZA ESKENAZI THE “SWEET CANARY” OF AN URBAN SONGS},abstractNode={This paper aims to give a description about the striking life story and singer-dancer career of so called “sweet canary” Roza Eskenazi, the queen of rebetico songs of love and separation, the popular genre at the end of the 19th – beginning of 20th century Greece. Sara Skinazi (later Roza Eskenazi), born in Sepharadic Jew family, (where Sepharads are one of the important ethnic minorities of the Ottoman empire), later she gains wide popularly interpreting spesific songs in various languages of the empire, such as Turkish, Greek, Armenian and Ladino. With her impressive and unique performance style, later named “Smyrnaki rebetico”, she plays leading role at the urban entertainment life of her time. Eskenazi who also performed an important recordings with U.S.A. based companies such as Colombia Records, continued her almost lifelong performance career influencing and encouraging many young musicians, inspite of hard to pass war years. This paper aims to give a short look to some different and simply unusual sides of a portrait of one spectacular female-singer-dancer, described as an extraordinary master-interpreter of rebetico genre.},author={Sibel PAŞAOĞLU},year={2017},journal={The Journal of Social Sciences}}