Roza Eskenazi
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Born in Istanbul (date uncertain - some time in the 1890s) to a Jewish family, Roza Eskenazi came to Greece as a young girl and made a name in rebetika music with her coquettish voice. In her teens she found work with an Armenian dance troupe, dancing and singing in Armenian, Turkish and Greek. She made her first record in 1929. In the 1950s she toured extensively the United States with much success becoming a favourite of many a Greek-American at that time. Roza died on December 2, 1980 and lies in an unmarked grave at the village of Stomio on the Gulf of Corinth.
Some of her well-known hits
- Enas mangas ston tekke mou
- Nea meraklou
- Palamakia-palamakia