Sarah Aroeste
Sarah Aroeste started attending music school at age 12. Sarah spent the next 10 years (including her 4 years at Yale University) training as a classical singer. During that time she won several competitions and sang in various international venues, most notably Tanglewood Music Festival and the Israel Vocal Arts Institute. While singing in Israel in 1997, Sarah met Nico Castel, the world-renowned diction coach of the Metropolitan Opera, and one of the world’s leading experts on Ladino, a form of Castillian Spanish and the language of Sarah’s Sephardic family. Sarah started studying Ladino music and culture with Castel, and upon her return to America she began incorporating Ladino into her concerts. In time, Sarah realized that very few people in America were familiar with Ladino and Sephardic music, so she founded her own music production company, Aroeste Music LLC, to expose this geography of music and make it more accessible to a new and wider audience. Combining the various influences that have shaped her, Sarah has created a musical style that mixes traditional Mediterranean Sephardic music with contemporary sensibilities such as rock, funk, jazz and blues. In 2001 Aroeste launched the Sarah Aroeste Band, the world’s first (and as yet only) Ladino Rock band.
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