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Brazilian Musician Seu Jorge Performs 15 Iconic Bowie Songs in Portuguese to Mark the 10th Anniversary of Bowie’s Passing

Brazilian Musician Seu Jorge Performs 15 Iconic Bowie Songs in Portuguese to Mark the 10th Anniversary of Bowie’s Passing

Published by José Betancourt

In 2004, the Brazil­ian musi­cian Seu Jorge record­ed a series of Por­tuguese cov­ers of David Bowie songs for Wes Anderson’s film The Life Aquat­ic with Steve Zis­sou. The next year, he released a full album of 13 Bowie clas­sics, and in 2016–2017, he even took the songs on tour. Now, in 2026, to mark the 10th anniver­sary of Bowie’s pass­ing, Jorge returns with the per­for­mance above. Set against a beau­ti­ful Brazil­ian coast­line, he sings some of Bowie’s most beloved tracks, all while in char­ac­ter as Pelé dos San­tos, the role he played in Anderson’s film. See the full track list below and enjoy. Lady Star­dustRock ’n’ Roll Sui­cideQueen BitchOh! You Pret­ty ThingsSuf­fragette CityChangesRebel RebelQuick­sandFive YearsTeam Zis­souZig­gy Star­dustSpace Odd­i­tyWhen I Live My DreamLife on Mars?Star­man Relat­ed Con­tent  David Bowie’s 100 Must Read Books Every Wes Ander­son Movie, Explained by Wes Ander­son Why Do Wes Ander­son Movies Look Like That? The Art Col­lec­tion of David Bowie: An Intro­duc­tion Source link

For some Jewish women, ‘passing’ as Christian during the Holocaust could mean survival – but left scars all the same

For some Jewish women, ‘passing’ as Christian during the Holocaust could mean survival – but left scars all the same

Published by Sam Flores

(The Conversation) — Travel case in hand, dressed in fashionable clothing and wearing a practiced, coquettish smile, Hela Schüpper Rufeisen sat aboard the train to Warsaw, Poland. No one on board would have suspected that beneath the coat of the young woman were strapped assorted handguns and several cartridge clips. Schüpper Rufeisen, who was Jewish, relied on this dissonance between appearance and reality to ferry items into, out of and between the Warsaw and Krakow ghettos. Her carefully cultivated “Aryan” image and false papers listing her as Catholic made it possible to cross borders and survive encounters that would otherwise have ended in death. Hela Schüpper Rufeisen before the war. Eli Dotan/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA During the Holocaust, trying to “pass” as non-Jewish was often more feasible for women than men. Some Jewish women, like Schüpper Rufeisen, took the risk in order to join resistance efforts against the Nazis and their collaborators. Most Jews who tried to pass, however, did so simply to remain alive in a system designed to murder them. Passing took many …