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La Mano Ajena is a Santiago-based Chilean band known for its exuberant fusion of klezmer, Balkan, Gypsy, and Latin American rhythms. Often described as “klezmer a la chilena,” their music blends Eastern European Jewish musical traditions with cumbia, tango, rumba, and theatrical performance. Singing in multiple languages including Yiddish, Hebrew, and Spanish, the group brings klezmer and Balkan sounds to Chilean stages.
María Brea is a Venezuelan-American soprano whose work bridges Latin American and Jewish musical traditions with operatic power and emotional depth. Her debut album, Alba: Beyond Borders, explores Latin American and Jewish song, reflecting her commitment to music as a living archive of migration, memory, and belonging.
Born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, Elysheva Arleen Ramirez is a singer of Ladino (or Judeo-Spanish) music and a Cultural Studies researcher, specializing in Sephardic linguistics and heritage in the Latin-American Caribbean. She has Taíno and Jewish Sephardic heritage, and is the founder of the BorikenSpharad Ladino Music Project, an academic research project exploring the intersection of her Jewish identity and her artistry.
Sherele is a quartet based in Guadalajara, Mexico, which brings together musicians from France, Mexico and Argentina. Playing a traditional Klezmer repertoire along with original pieces, Sherele's soulful music blends traditional Klezmer with jazz, Central and South American folklore and rhythms, and rock. Their CD, "Oy Mame Shein, Pickles Chiles and Jrein" (2008) represents their fusion of sonic and musical styles.
Jorge Drexler is a Uruguayan singer-songwriter whose music weaves together Latin American folk, poetic lyricism, and reflections on identity and belonging. Raised Jewish in Montevideo to a German Jewish father who fled Nazi persecution and a Catholic mother of Iberian ancestry, Drexler’s work is deeply shaped by themes of migration, memory, and cultural hybridity.
Mariana Lev is a Buenos Aires–born singer, producer, and cultural organizer whose work spans music, dance, media, and community building. Raised in a Jewish family with deep artistic roots, she began her musical journey with Hebrew songs before expanding into Latin music, Caribbean rhythms, and performance across Argentina and the United States. Her work reflects a lifelong commitment to artistic expression, migration stories, and the power of culture to connect communities.
Lala Tamar is a Brazilian-Moroccan-Israeli singer and songwriter whose music revives and reimagines Haketia, a North African Judeo-Spanish dialect once spoken by Sephardic Jews. Drawing on her Brazilian, Moroccan, and Israeli roots, she blends Andalusian, North African, and Latin musical traditions into a contemporary global sound. Performing internationally and currently based in Morocco, Lala Tamar is the first modern artist to release an album entirely in Haketia.
Cantor Gastón Bogomolni is an Argentine-born cantor, educator, and performer whose work fuses Jewish liturgical music with Latin American rhythms and spirit. He is known for his soulful, energetic performances with projects such as Malachei Mambo, Ta’am Latino, and the Jewish Argen-Tenors, bringing Latin-Jewish soundscapes to stages, synagogues, and festivals. Bogomolni is also the co-editor of Ruach Hadarom, the first anthology of congregational synagogue melodies from Latin America.
Alex Blue is a queer Jewish-Mexican folk singer-songwriter with a diverse range of influences spanning from Fleetwood Mac and Joni Mitchell to Shawn Colvin, Patty Griffin, and Gaby Moreno. Her unique blend of folk songwriting and pop-inspired melodies carries echoes of nostalgia intertwined with contemporary storytelling. As a neurodivergent artist, she brings a unique perspective to her songwriting, exploring her inner world as a landscape of its own.
Orquesta Kef is an Argentina-based Jewish party band known for energizing celebrations with joyful, dance-driven music. Specializing in Jewish festive repertoire for weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs, and communal events, the band blends traditional melodies with contemporary sounds.
Fortuna is a Brazilian singer-songwriter of Jewish origin and a World Music researcher, whose music bridges across multiple religions and cultures from around the world. Since 2020, she has performed the chazanut (liturgical music) for several Jewish religious entities, such as the CJB (Brazilian Jewish Congregation – along with Rabbis Nilton Bonder and Dario Bialer), Bethel (Rabbi Uri Lam), and Kahal Tzur Israel – the first synagogue in the Americas, in Recife, Pernambuco.
Gabriela Trebitsch is a Chilean singer-songwriter, living in Israel since 2019. She was raised in a musical family where her love for world music was born, initially singing music in Hebrew and Ladino, and later also dabbling in Bossanova (Portuguese) and other genres in English and Spanish. Since she arrived in Israel, her focus has been Latin music, where she has begun recording her first album that includes original songs like "Flor en Abril" and some Israeli songs in a Latin version ("Es Así" and "Jurar"), including different musical styles (salsa, bachata, bolero, Bossanova, and others).
Mariachi Jerusalem is the world’s only Jewish mariachi band, founded in 2018 in Israel by Venezuelan musician Yojanan Peretz. Grounded in authentic Mexican mariachi tradition, the ensemble blends mariachi sound with Israeli and Jewish musical influences. Made up of young Jewish musicians who immigrated to Israel alongside local talent, the band performs across Israel and represents the country at international mariachi festivals.
Benjamin Lapidus is an American Jew with family connections to Cuba, Mexico, and Argentina. A Grammy-nominated musician and professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, he is also the author of Origins of Cuban Music and Dance: Changüí and El hombre y su música: Lilí Martínez Griñán, along with numerous book chapters and scholarly articles. As a recording artist, he has released nine albums and has appeared on more than 50 additional recordings, both Jewish and non-Jewish, under his own name and with his band, Sonido Isleño.
Yugs is a Chilean-American artist and producer from born in Denver, Colorado, whose music blends rock guitars, Latin grooves, dreamy synths, and introspective lyricism. Born Yonatan Naftali Kaufmann Gottlieb, he is the son of a mother born in Santiago, Chile and a father born in Havana, Cuba—both children of Holocaust survivors who fled Germany and Poland. Yugs has performed across Latin America, creating music rooted in his Latin and Jewish identity and shaped by his family’s history, with a focus on shared humanity.
Hip Hop Hoodíos (from the Spanish judíos, meaning Jews) are a bilingual Latino-Jewish hip-hop and alternative band founded in Brooklyn in 2001. Now bi-coastal, the group—led by Josh Norek and Abraham Vélez—fuses Jewish and Latin sounds with hip-hop and experimental music. Their work has appeared on MTV Tr3s and in major TV shows, films, and video games, including Only Murders in the Building, and they’ve collaborated with Grammy-winning artists from Ozomatli and The Klezmatics.
Mateo Sujatovich is the leader of Conociendo Rusia, an Argentinian contemporary music group blending classic Argentine songwriting with modern sounds. He also composed No se borra, a song commissioned by the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA) to commemorate the 1994 bombing and honor its victims. Sujatovich is the son of renowned keyboardist Leo Sujatovich of rock-jazz band Spinetta Jade, and the brother of singer-songwriter Luna Sujatovich, whose work explores her family's Buenos Aires, Jewish, and Italian roots.
A Caribbean-influenced demo version of the Jewish prayer Sim Shalom blending Hebrew liturgical tradition with Son-Caribe musical style.
Gabe Saporta is a Uruguayan-born, New York–based musician best known as the founder and frontman of the electropop band Cobra Starship. Born in Montevideo to a Jewish family whose ancestors fled Europe during World War II, Saporta brings a Latin-Jewish diasporic background to his work in pop, punk, and electronic music. Prior to Cobra Starship, he was the lead singer and bassist of the punk band Midtown, and later expanded his impact behind the scenes through artist management and music advocacy.
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