Ahouva Ozeri – I Ran To The Sea

Ahouva Ozeri – I Ran To The Sea (1976)

In traditional Mizrahi households, a music career was equated with prostitution, and many families forbade their daughters from performing. Ahouva Ozeri, a Yemenite-Ethiopian Israeli singer who became popular in the 1970s, mastered an Indian string instrument called bulbul tarang and helped pave the way for women in Mizrahi music. 

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