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Victoria Hazan

Discography of Sephardic (and other) Recordings

Artist	Title	Label / Number
Hazan, Victoria	El Cante por la Victoria	Metropolitan 3005A
Hazan, Victoria	Lagrimas Verterei	Metropolitan 3004A
Hazan, Victoria	Me Kemi Y Me Enflami	Metropolitan 3001A
Hazan, Victoria	Mis Penserios Gazel	Metropolitan 3002B
Hazan, Victoria	No Ay Luz, Sabah Gazel	Metropolitan 3005B
Hazan, Victoria	No Riygas con mi	Metropolitan 3001B
Hazan, Victoria	Seda Amaria Son	Metropolitan 3004B
Hazan, Victoria	Todas mis esperansas	Metropolitan 3003B
Hazan, Victoria	Un anio Ay	Metropolitan 3002A
Hazan, Victoria	Un dia Yo Bizi	Metropolitan 3003A

Turkish

Hazan, Victoria	Araraim Seni Her Guni	Kaliphon 710
Hazan, Victoria	Rast Neva Gazel	Kaliphon 710
Hazan, Victoria	Yureimde Bou Agi	Kaliphon 711
Hazan, Victoria	Yardan haber Gelmadi	Kaliphon 711
Hazan, Victoria	Hayal Deresy	Kaliphon 712
Hazan, Victoria	Gionul Arasinda	Kaliphon 712
Hazan, Victoria	Hüzam Gazel	Metropolitan 2001
Hazan, Victoria	Martinim Omüzümda	Metropolitan 2001
Hazan, Victoria	Garip Hicaz	Metropolitan 2002
Hazan, Victoria	Gordum Ben Seni	Metropolitan 2002
Hazan, Victoria	Değirmenci	Metropolitan 2004
Hazan, Victoria	Bahçe duvarin açdi	Metropolitan 2004

Greek

Hazan, Victoria	Omorfo Mou Hariklaki	Metropolitan 156
Hazan, Victoria	Na se hara hasapaki	Metropolitan 156

All recorded and released in New York, N.Y.

Sra. Hazan's entire recorded repertory (10 songs in Ladino; 12 in Turkish, and 2 in Greek) were re-released on Todas mis esperansas, reviewed here: http://www.mustrad.org.uk/reviews/schw_haz.htm. One song also appears on the CD Es Razon de Alabar.

For more information, see also this record label page: Metropolitan.

Biography

Born April 15, 1896 in Salihli, Northeast of Izmir (Smyrna), the third child of Moshe and Rivka Ninio. As befits her married name, Hazan was born into a family of cantors. She moved to Izmir around 1915 and to New York City around 1920. She married Israel Hazan ca. 1925. Sometime after Israel's death ca. 1936, she married Joe Rosa.

She was the President of the United Sisterhood Benevolent Society (in the Bronx?). She concertized at her synagogue, singing and playing the 'oud. She sang in Turkish, Greek, Ladino, Armenian, French and Hebrew. The liner notes to Todas Mis Esperansas relate that she initially declined when fans requested she record, saying her husband "made a good living." Eventually she relented and with her husband's consent, entered the recording studio. She produced commercial recordings in Turkish, Greek and Ladino in the early 1940s for the Kaliphon and Metropolitan label.

She died on November 21, 1995, in New York City and is buried in Cincinnati, OH.

Sources:

Maurice Ninio, Carol Freeman and Joseph Hodara. Todas mis esperansas liner notes by Michael Schlesinger.

Photos

Engagement photo with Israel Hazan. Source: Maurice Ninio.

Source: Maurice Ninio.

Sra. Hazan is fourth from the right, partially obscured by her husband, Israel. Photo of the United Sisterhood Benevolent Society. Source: http://home.hawaii.rr.com/hodara/historyLH/Victoria.html

Ca. 1975. Courtesy of Mr. Maurice Ninio, pictured at the right.

While living at the Sephardic Home in Brooklyn, NY. Source: Maurice Ninio.

Photo by the author.

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