Cross-Generational Song: Galeet Dardashti Duets Her Grandfather

In this video, Persian American anthropologist and musician Galeet Dardashti introduces her album Monajat, where she duets recordings of her late grandfather, Younes Dardashti, a famous singer from Iran. Together, grandfather and granddaughter sing Hebrew and Persian Selichot, a collection of prayers about repentance recited before the Jewish new year, Rosh Hashanah. A Sephardic practice is to recite Selichot every day from the first of the month of Elul through Yom Kippur, often in pre-dawn services. Galeet’s rendition includes old and new musical influences from Middle Eastern, jazz, and rock traditions.