Boaz Sharabi

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Boaz Sharabi, 2018

Boaz Sharabi ( Hebrew בעז שרעבי; born May 28, 1947 in Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli songwriter , composer, and songwriter . His music combines influences from oriental culture with soul and pop .

biography

Boaz Sharabi was born in Tel Aviv in 1947 in what was then the Mandate Palestine . He grew up in a musical family with ten children. His parents were Yemeni Jews . Two of his brothers are singers and composers, his twin sister Ada is said to have died while giving birth. However, Boaz believes that, like hundreds of Israeli toddlers of Yemeni descent, she was taken from her parents in 1948–1954.

Boaz Sharabi began playing the drum at the age of ten and was a drummer in various rock groups for several years from 1965 . There has been a longstanding artistic collaboration with the songwriter and poet Ehud Manor and the composer Matti Caspi . For the film Beyond the Walls by Uri Barbash , which was released in 1984 and continued with a sequel in 1992 , he wrote the score and was also one of the actors. On Shoshana Damari's comeback in the 1980s, he sang a duet with her . His albums also contain recitations of poems by the Yemeni poet Shalom Shabazi (1619–1720).

Sharabi has participated in numerous music competitions and was the winner of the Viña del Mar Song Festival in 1977 . The film portrait Boaz about the life of Sharabi was shown at the Docaviv Festival in Tel Aviv in 2017 .

Sharabi was married three times. He divorced his first wife Liora, whom he married in the 1970s, after a few years. His second wife, Helen, was a drug addict and committed suicide in 1991. He married his third wife, Pnina Zadok, in 2002. He has a son with her and they divorced in 2006. Sharabi lives in Caesarea .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hundreds of Yemenite Children Were Abducted in State's Early Years, Says Israeli Cabinet Minister Haaretz , July 31, 2016
  2. ↑ We crowned you the Queen of Song The Jerusalem Post , February 17, 2006
  3. ↑ Reference to Docaviv

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personal data
SURNAME Sharabi, Boaz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES בעז שרעבי (Hebrew)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli songwriter, composer, and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Tel Aviv , Mandate Palestine