First we have Tamir Grindburg, some have hailed this 18 year old as the new Otis Redding.
Listen to Tamir Grinberg singing “Georgia” and you might think it’s Otis Redding or Ray Charles. But despite his exceptional voice that delivers blues and jazz like the most famous names in the music industry, Tamir is only 18 years old.
You have to see this Tel Aviv teen to believe your ears. Could fame be far behind?
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Cello is Israeli musician’s ticket to success.
Taking his cello into nature.
It’s not often that you get to play music with your childhood singing idols, but 32-year-old cellist Yoed Nir has recorded with two of them: the iconic Israeli songsters Arik Einstein and Shlomo Artzi.
The Israeli-born musician’s string work is featured on some 450 albums recorded by many well-known artists in different genres, such as Judy Collins, Regina Spektor, Rufus Wainwright, Diane Birch, Sonya Kitchell, Shawn Colvin and Yael Naim
The teacher got him hooked
Yoed Nir grew up in Ganei Tikvah, a suburb of Petah Tikvah that won the five-star prize in the Beautiful Town Competition held by the Council for a Beautiful Israel for 10 consecutive years.
- Nir on Late Show with Conan O’Brien.
Through David Sela, his cello professor there, he met his future wife, Anat, a classical pianist and singer-songwriter. “She’s working on her first solo album of really beautiful music that we are producing with another friend, Ziv Shalev, to be released next year in Israel,” Nir says.
After graduating, he began performing throughout Israel and Europe, most notably with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in 2007. Later that year, he and Anat moved to Manhattan, where they sometimes give recitals as a duo.
He’s done solo appearances, most recently at the Rose Theatre in New York’s Lincoln Center, and has performed in the Beacon Theatre, Radio City Music Hall, Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall and Merkin Concert Hall in Manhattan; the Kodak Theatre, Greek Theatre and El-Rey Theatre in Los Angeles; and San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall.
For the full interview go to Israel21c
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David Broza – Citizen of the world!
David Broza. Photo by Ilan Besor
‘I’m trying to get to places where there’s not a chance Israeli music will ever be played,’ says the singer-songwriter and peace activist.
Veteran Israeli performer David Broza figured that if you can buy a Picasso on the Internet, you can also finance an album on the Internet.
So he took the highly unconventional route of producing his first Israeli album in nine years, “Safa Shlishit” (“Third Language”), entirely via the site Kickstarter. Released last summer, his 28th CD became one of the top five music projects ever kick-started online.
“I am a very down-to-earth singer-songwriter and not a techie, yet I went for the highest technology to do this project and I succeeded,” says Broza, 56, “despite the fact that it’s an album in Hebrew by an older artist, so it’s against all odds. It just shows you that you need to have a focus.”
That focus only sharpened when, fresh out of the Israeli army, he turned into an accidental overnight sensation with “Yihye Tov” (“It Will be Good”), written with poet Yonatan Geffen on the eve of the 1977 peace negotiations with Egypt.
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