Roza Eskenazi sang songs and lived life with passion, fire and love. This is the story of three young musicians from Greece, Turkey and Israel that embark on an exciting musical journey, to reveal the story of the first and most famous Greek Rebetiko singer for the first time.

From Istanbul to Thessaloniki and Athens, through her life and music, this film introduces a world that has once existed, and its traces today.

She was the most famous singer of the 30s’ in Greece and Turkey, the Diva of Rebetiko. With her posters displayed in every Gramophone store, her bohemian looks would drive even the toughest men crazy.

In a colorful and full of life cinematic and musical journey, the film ‘My Sweet Canary’, follows three young musicians from Israel, Turkey and Greece, on a journey motivated by the influence of Roza Eskenazi’s life, as an artist and as a woman, an influence that drew each one of them, for his own reasons, to play her musicin his native country today.

Tomer Katz, an Israeli Oud and bouzouki player; Martha D Lewis, a British born Greek-Cypriot singer/composer and Mehtap Demir, a Turkish singer and musician, will lead us throughout Roza’s life story over the 20th century, a story that intertwines with their musical journey throughout today’s exotic Rebetiko scenes of Turkey and Greece, playing and meeting with local musicians and giving new interpretations to Roza’s borderless songs revived today in bars and dance floors in Athens, Istanbul, Thessaloniki and around the world.