Consuelo Luz Arostegui
Consuelo Luz Arostegui is a Chilean singer. She performs and records as "Consuelo Luz" is known for her Ladino and Sephardic music.
Early life
Consuelo Luz Arostegui was born in Chile. She is the daughter of a Sephardic Chilean mother and a Cuban father of Basque descent. Although raised Catholic, Arostegui was made aware of her Jewish ancestry at an early age. Her parents were diplomats, which had her growing up in many countries, including Greece, the Philippines, Spain, Italy and Peru.
Education
Arostegui studied Spanish through the Overseas Cambridge University in Lima, Peru and later studied literature and music at the New School for Social Research in New York. Further studies included drama at the Stella Adler Theater Studio.
Career
In 1974, she moved her family to New Mexico where she met Rabbi Chavah Carp in Taos, who presented her with a collection of ancient Ladino prayers with text and music with a request that she learn them and sing them at community festivals and services. This sparked Arostegui's interest in Ladino music and inspired her first Sephardic CD, Dezeo, in 2000. Since then Arostegui has performed internationally and produced and released many more recordings and this has led her to explore more deeply her Sephardic Jewish heritage.
Podcasts:
Consuelo Luz
ALBUMS
- Dezeo released: 2005
Dezeo
Released 2005- Ki Mitsion/Que de Tsion - From Out of Zion
- Ahot Ketana/Hermana Pequena - Little Sister
- Los Bilbilicos - The Nightingales
- Rahamana/Ah Dio Piadozo - Oh Merciful God
- Shema Koli/Oye mi Boz - Lord, Hear my Voice
- Lekha Eli Teshukati/A Ti Mi Dio Mi Dezeo - To You My God My Desire
- Yo M'Enamori d'un Aire - I Fell in Love With the Charms
- Las Estreyas - The Stars
- Tsur Mishelo Akhalnu/Criador Mio - Creator Who Sustains Us
- Nakdishakh/Santificartehemos - We Make You Holy
- Una Noche al Lunar - One Moonlit Night
