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Neta Elkayam is a multidisciplinary artist and singer of North-African Jewish roots, leading ensembles across Morocco, Europe, Jerusalem, and New Orleans. She blends Andalusian, chaabi, and Amazigh traditions with pop, electronic music, and jazz, and often appears as a guest orchestral soloist. Rooted in deep archival and vinyl research and close collaboration with musical director Amit Hai Cohen, her work keeps a clear, self-driven voice that reaches back to ancestral memory through music and unwritten history. Her visual practice spans installations, performance art, and paintings that map memory, migration, and women’s narratives. She has appeared on leading stages worldwide, including Festival des Andalousies Atlantiques (Essaouira), the Marrakech International Film Festival, the Krakow Jewish Festival, Festival Sefarad de Montréal, the Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris), and New Morning (Paris). Recognitions include the ACUM Music Prize (2017), the Sami Michael Award for Social Equality (2019), the Moroccan Salam Contemporary Arts Forum Prize (2021), the American Sephardi Federation’s Pomegranate Award (2022), and the Trophée Marocains du Monde. On screen, she appears in Kamal Hachkar’s In Your Eyes I See My Country and Keren Yedaya’s Mami (Ophir Best Actress nominee). She teaches at Xavier University in New Orleans.

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