Join us for an online musical journey guided by international Jewish music sensation Fortuna, who will sing songs in Yiddish, Ladino, Hebrew, & Portuguese!

Fortuna is a critically acclaimed Brazilian Jewish singer-songwriter whose work draws on her Middle Eastern Judaic and Arabic roots to explore Sephardic journeys from Spain and Portugal. Over a 30-year career, Fortuna has bridged cultures and languages through eight independent albums, including La Prima Vez, Cantigas, and Mediterrâneo—winner of the 10th Sharp Music Award for Best Foreign-Language Album. Her album Novos Mares (2016) traces the journey of Jews from Aleppo, including the tribute “Branca Dias” to Anusim. She showcased Ladino music at the 2019 MIMO Festival in Portugal. She has performed at the São Bento Monastery with the Benedictine Monks Choir, at Kahal Tzur Israel in Recife, in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and she hosted Todos os Cantos, a 12-year world-music radio program. In June 2025, the American Sephardi Federation awarded her the Pomegranate Lifetime Achievement Award for Preservation of Sephardic Culture. Fortuna was back in NYC on 11 January to headline the ASF’s Salud i Beraha: The 9th Annual NY Ladino Day.