Pink Martini Ari Shapiro Ocho kandelikas, Live from Portland 2015

PINK MARTINI S 2020 VIRTUAL NEW YEAR S SHOW: December 31, 2020 ON SALE NOW Visit for more details From the December 2015 recording sessions for the syndicated NPR holiday special Joy to the World: A Holiday Spectacular at OPB Studios in Portland, Pink Martini performs Ocho kandelikas ( Eight little candles ), a counting song for Hanukkah. Featuring Pink Martini s lead vocalist China Forbes, colead vocalist Storm Large, regular guest vocalist NPR s Ari Shapiro, and Cantor Ida Rae Cahana, Ocho kandelikas is an upbeat gem from the band s seminal holiday album Joy to the The song was written by Flory Jagoda in the rarely heard language of Ladino, a JudeoSpanish language mixing elements of Old Spanish, Hebrew, Turkish, and other languages common to the Iberian Peninsula in the 16th century. LYRICS: