Chava Alberstein is undoubtedly Israel’s most accomplished singer, having released dozens of recordings since the late 1960s, many of them now gold or platinum. Chava…
Artist Profiles: Chava Alberstein
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Artist Profiles: David Broza
For many years, singer-songwriter David Broza has been steadily gaining reputation throughout the world. A superstar in his homeland of Israel, he is a modern…
Artist Profiles: Essev Bar
Essev Bar is one of Israel’s leading world music bands. The band’s music is a meeting point of musical genres and instruments from different cultures:…
Artist Profiles: Filfel Gourgy
Filfel Gourgy was born at the beginning of the 1930s in Baghdad, Iraq, and died in 1983 in the courtyard of his home in Israel.In…
Artist Profiles: Emil Zrihan
Emil Zrihan, cantor of the synagogue in Ashkelon kept the Judeo-Andalusian and folk traditions of his mother country Morocco alive in his heart. Following the…
Artist Profiles: Habrera Hativit
Habrera Hativeet, formed in 1977, played music that has evolved from Sephardic, African and Eastern roots. It was the first group to play Israeli world…
Artist Profiles: Kol – Tof Duo
Kol Tof Trio was formed by three musicians. Three instruments, three native lands, three languages, all gathered in Jerusalem to play the music of Morocco…
Artist Profiles: Lior Elmaleh
Lior Elmaleh, who has been the Israeli Andalusian Orchestra’s resident soloist for a number of years, is one of the leading representatives of the new…
Artist Profiles: Lubna Salame
Lubna Salame was born in Haifa and now lives in Kfar Yassif. She is a resident singer with the Nazareth Orchestra. As a child, she…
Artist Profiles: Muhammad Abu Ajaj
Oud player and composer Muhammad Abu Ajaj was born in 1955 in Kseife. It was from his father’s radio, in the tent that he was…