Francoise Atlan

French singer Francoise Atlan celebrates the Sephardic culture of Spain in poetry words and song. Atlan was born into a Sephardic Jewish family in France and is one of the best performers of Sephardic romance. She possesses a quality of voice that brings great authenticity to the music.Granada was the last bastion of the Sephardic – literally the Jews of Spain – culture in Spain in 1492.

Atlan will talk about the history of the Sephardic tradition and the expulsion of Sephardic Jews from Spain. She will perform traditional Sephardic works in the Jewish-Spanish and Jewish-Moroccan languages of Ladino Judezmo and Haketia. Atlan's Jewish roots led her to develop a passion for traditional music particularly from the Mediterranean basin. She has carried out extensive research into the subject and has performed to acclaim across the world including in London New York Morocco and Spain.