Amalia Bakas

Amalia Bakas (an haife ta Mazaltov [Mally] Matsa 1897-1979) mawaƙiya ce kuma mai wasan kwaikwayo a Amurka a cikin karni na 20. Ta shiga cikin "Halin Eighth Avenue" a Birnin New York da kuma al'ummomin Girka a kusa da Amurka. 

Ayyukanta sun kunshi mafi yawan waƙoƙin gargajiya waɗanda ta kara da nata salon da kalmomi. Ba kamar sauran mawaƙa na lokacin ba, waƙoƙinta galibi game da soyayya ne. Ta kuma rubuta waƙoƙi biyu, "Elenitsa Mou" bayan an yi mata baftisma da kuma "Diamontoula Mou" ga 'yarta.

Ba a san komai game da Bakas ba kafin lokacin da ta kasance a Amurka. An haife ta ne a Ioannina a cikin Janina Vilayet na Daular Ottoman a cikin al'ummar Yahudawa ta Romaniote . Al'ummar Romaniote sun mamaye maza kuma ba a rubuta haihuwar mata ba wanda zai iya haifar da rashin bayani game da rayuwar Amalia ta farko.

A shekara ta 1912, lokacin da Bakas ke da shekaru 15, ta yi tafiya zuwa Amurka a kan jirgin ruwa na Kaiser Franz Josef I. An tsare ta a Tsibirin Ellis, ba tare da biyan kuɗin $ 50 ba har sai an yi kiran waya ga dangi, wanda ya biya ta kuɗin. A shekara ta 1913, ta auri Jack Saretta, kuma daga Ioannina kuma suna zaune a titin Rivington a Lower East Side a New York, NY. Ta yi aiki a wani masana'anta a matsayin mai sutura kuma ma'auratan suna da 'ya'ya mata biyu, Diamond da Ester Cleonike .

A cikin shekarun 1920, Bakas ya fara yin wasan kwaikwayo a cikin cafe-amans da wuraren shakatawa na Turkiyya a farkon shekarun 1920 suna ɗaukar sunan mataki Amalia . An yi rikodin ta na farko tare da Kamfanin Rubuce-rubucen M.G. Parsekian a Hoboken, New Jersey kuma ya kunshi waƙoƙin Turkiyya 8. Daga baya a Birnin Chicago ta rubuta waƙoƙin Girkanci da Turkiyya 6 tare da Kamfanin Rubuce-rubucen Girkanci. Bakas ya kuma rubuta tare da Marika Papagika, wani shahararren mawaƙin Girka na lokacin. Bakas na ɗaya daga cikin sanannun abokan Papagika kuma Papagika za ta kula da 'yarta Diamond.[1]

'Yarta Diamond sau da yawa tana yin wasa tare da mahaifiyarta ta hanyar raira waƙa ko ta hanyar bin ta a kan doumbek. Kamar yadda rayuwar mai wasan kwaikwayo ba mace ce ta al'ummar Romaniote ta jagoranci ba, mijin Bakas ya sake ta kuma ya tura wata 'yarta Ester zuwa zama a Girka. A shekara ta 1926 ta tuba zuwa Cocin Orthodox na Girka don auren Gus Bakas . Amalia da Gus sun yi aiki a kasuwancin gidan cin abinci tare da Bakas har yanzu suna yin wasan kwaikwayo a cafe-amans a kan 8th Avenue a Birnin New York.