Turkey sends Sephardic Jew to Eurovision in Baku

[Syt]

http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2012/01/13/3091175/friday-five-brangelina-yes-we-can-bonomo-sheldon-adelson-jack-lew-anastassia-michaeli

Can Bonomo Sings Turkey

Can Bonomo, a 24-year-old Jewish recording artist from Izmir, Turkey, was selected to represent his country at Eurovision. The fan site EuroVisionary describes the 24-year-old singer/songwriter's style as "Istanbulian music that works with tunes from Alaturca to international indie style," with the Shins, Wax Poetic, the Kinks, the Libertines and the Beatles as influences. Whoa! Not sure what that produces, but Bonomo, whether he knows it or not, picks up on a lovely Turkish Jewish tradition of mixing musical styles. Sephardic Jewish singers in Ladino were famed among Turks of all persuasions in the 1920s and 1930s, rendering their foreparents' winsome tales of love lost to jazzy arrangements in Istanbul's cafes. There's also a political element to Bonomo's selection by the state-owned Turkish Radio and Television Corp. Turkish diplomats love to remind Journalists Who Cover the Middle East that their country always has been a haven for the Jews -- and that's not going to change, however bad things get with Israel.

Example of his music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LJdx0e_hpo

Yay Luftwaffe:

[Josquius]

OK then.
Nice jacket.

[The Brain]

Jew shipped East. Film at 11.