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- Sembrar Plantas/ Growing Plants (Podemos Hacerlo! / We Can Do It!) (English and Spanish Edition)
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There is a number of artists with the name Fortuna: 1) A Jewish-Brazilian singer and composer, Fortuna has a solid background in music, dance and theatrical arts. For several years she performed with different artists in Brazil and abroad, singing Brazilian popular music. A gifted composer, she created a whole repertoire of songs with poet Paulo Leminski. It was during a tour in Israel in 1991 that she heard Sephardic music for the first time. This fortunate encounter would be a turning point
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Brazil
- Place of birth
- São Paulo
- Occupation
- composer
- Languages spoken
- Portuguese
- Native language
- Portuguese
- Official website
- fortunaoficial.com
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- date of birth
- 1958-00-00
- start of work period
- 1980-00-00
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Article · Português
Fortuna, nome artístico de Fortunée Joyce Safdié, (São Paulo, 1958), é uma cantora e compositora brasileira, de origem judaica. Pesquisa o cancioneiro sefardita desde 1992. Fortuna gravou sete CDs e um DVD até 2009 e vendeu quase 100 mil cópias. Realizou diversos trabalhos com o Coro de Monges Beneditinos do Convento de São Bento em São Paulo e com o Coro do Guri, composto por crianças e adolescentes da cidade de São Paulo. Fortuna canta principalmente em hebraico e ladino, idioma utilizado pelos judeus sefarditas que habitaram a Península Ibérica até o século XV quando foram expulsos pelos Reis Católicos e se dispersaram por vários países do Mediterrâneo.
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