• Erez Zobary dives into her Yemenite heritage with R&B soul

  • Dec 30 2024
  • Length: 35 mins
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Erez Zobary dives into her Yemenite heritage with R&B soul

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  • Erez Zobary spent a long time downplaying her Jewish identity in her music career. Her earlier work—a blend of R&B, pop, soul and jazz—dealt with issues relevant to her audience of largely twentysomethings: love lives, quarter-life crises, feeling stuck and aimless. It may not be surprising, then, that a woman whose songs so often looked inward would eventually turn to her heritage. As she tells Culturally Jewish, The CJN's arts and culture podcast, her songs began feeling increasingly disconnected from who she really was, and she wanted to try something drastically different.

    The result is Erez, her new album, which dives deep into her Yemenite family history—specifically her grandmother's escape from Yemen to Israel as part of Operation Magic Carpet. Zobary joins the show to explain her process and backstory, and to share how she feels releasing an album with Middle Eastern musical flourishes, covered in Hebrew writing, just one year after Oct. 7.

    Credits

    • Hosts: Ilana Zackon and David Sklar
    • Producer: Michael Fraiman
    • Music: Sarah Segal-Lazar

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