Effective period / Period of releases: 1959

Gloria Levy grew up in New York City in a trilingual household -- Spanish, French and English were spoken simultaneously and interchangeably.
In time-honored tradition, she learned Sephardic folk songs from her mother who was born in Alexandria, Egypt. Her father comes from Izmir (Smyrna) in Turkey, where her family lived from many generations, after been expelled from Spain following the Alhambra Decree in 1492.