Recognized as a leading musical folklorist and a master singer and guitarist, Gerard Edery has at his command a remarkable range of ethnic folk styles and traditions from around the world. He sings in fifteen languages and speaks four fluently. Not only does he regularly uncover and preserve songs, stories and melodies from Europe, the Middle East, South America and ancient Persia, he energizes these repertoires by interpreting them for contemporary audiences and by collaborating with some of the world's most highly acclaimed virtuoso musicians.
One of the world's foremost experts in the wide-ranging music of the Sephardic Diaspora, he received the Sephardic Musical Heritage Award in 1997 and a Meet the Composer grant his for original compositions.
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