''My Sweet Canary'' (

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: Καναρίνι μου Γλυκό) is a

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from 2011 about the life of Jewish-Greek

rebetiko Rebetiko (, ), plural rebetika ( ), occasionally transliterated as rembetiko or rebetico, is a term used to designate previously disparate kinds of urban Greek music which in the 1930s went through a process of musical syncretism and develope ...

singer

Roza Eskenazi Roza Eskenazi (mid-1890s – 2 December 1980, Greek: Ρόζα Εσκενάζυ) was a Jewish-Greek dancer and singer of ''rebetiko'', Greek folk music, Kanto and Turkish folk music born in Istanbul, whose recording and stage career extended fro ...

. Its director is the Israeli Roy Sher. In the movie, Martha Demeteri Lewis, Tomer Katz and

Mehtap Demir Mehtap Demir (born 1978 in Ardahan) is a singer of Anatolian folk music from Turkey. Biography Demir was born in 1978 in Ardahan,rebetiko Rebetiko (, ), plural rebetika ( ), occasionally transliterated as rembetiko or rebetico, is a term used to designate previously disparate kinds of urban Greek music which in the 1930s went through a process of musical syncretism and develope ...

and especially with the intention of learning more about the music career of

, as they travel between

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and

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Music

The music of the film is sung by the Israeli

Yasmin Levy Yasmin Levy (; born 23 December 1975) is a singer and songwriter of Judeo-Spanish music. Biography Yasmin Levy was born on 23 December 1975. She is of Sephardic Jewish descent. Her parents were immigrants to Israel from Turkey. Her father, ...

, the

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Maria Koti, Martha D Lewis, Sotiris Papatragiannis and the

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Mehtap Demir Mehtap Demir (born 1978 in Ardahan) is a singer of Anatolian folk music from Turkey. Biography Demir was born in 1978 in Ardahan,Haris Alexiou Haris Alexiou (, ; born 27 December 1950 in Thebes, Greece as Hariklia Roupaka, , ) is a Greek singer whose career has spanned over 5 decades. She is one of the most popular singers in Greece. She has worked with important Greek songwriters and c ...

, the Israeli Tomer Katz, playing the

oud The oud ( ; , ) is a Middle Eastern short-neck lute-type, pear-shaped, fretless stringed instrument (a chordophone in the Hornbostel–Sachs classification of instruments), usually with 11 strings grouped in six courses, but some models have ...

and the

bouzouki The bouzouki (, also ; ; alt. pl. ''bouzoukia'', , from Greek , from Turkish ) is a musical instrument popular in West Asia (Syria, Iraq), Europe and Balkans (Greece, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey). It is a member of the long-necked lute fam ...

and the Turkish Mumin Sesler, playing the kanun. The film was presented in the

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