Name a musician associated with diaspora to global music. Explain your answer

What will be an ideal response?



  • Ofra Haza is a Yemeni Jew who grew up in Israel performing in community theater and whose music has become known throughout the world (global music).

  • She combines her local musical style (diaspora) with some of the features of Western pop music – e.g., the Yemeni tradition of using a brass tray and tin can as percussion instruments to accompany religious songs of Yemeni Jews. Her songs may be presented in a strong, metered pop style accompanied by Western music ensembles.

  • Her style of music may be classified as "World Beat or "EthnoPop," or under the more ambiguous term of "World Music."

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