Fortunee Safdié Joyce (born c. 1958), known professionally as Fortuna, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter of

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background, and a researcher of the

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tradition since 1992. Fortuna was born in

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, Brazil. She has been studying the Sephardic repertoire since 1992. Fortuna has recorded seven CDs and one DVD since then. She has worked on a number of occasions with the Choir of the Monastery of the Monks of

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in São Paulo, and with the Guri Choir, composed of children and adolescents in the city. Fortuna sings mainly in

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and

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, a language used by

Sephardi Jews Sephardic Jews, also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the historic Jewish communities of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and their descendant ...

who inhabited the Iberian Peninsula until the fifteenth century, at which time they were expelled by the Catholic Monarchs and scattered through several countries of the Mediterranean basin.

Discography

* ''15 Years Collection'' (''Coletânea 15 anos'') * ''At Ruth's House'' (''Na casa da Ruth'' – CD and DVD) * ''New World'' (''Novo Mundo'') – 2005 * ''Meeting'' (''Encontros'') – 2003 * ''Caelestia'' (CD and DVD) – 2001 * ''Mazal'' – 2000 * ''Mediterranean'' (''Meditarrâneo'') – 1998 * ''Songs'' (''Cantigas'') – 1998 * ''The First Time'' (''La Prima Vez'') – 1998Discografia Fortuna
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* 1958 births Brazilian Sephardi Jews Hebrew-language singers Judaeo-Spanish-language singers Singers from São Paulo 20th-century Sephardi Jews Living people 20th-century Brazilian women singers 20th-century Brazilian singers 21st-century Brazilian women singers 21st-century Brazilian singers {{Brazil-singer-stub