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Yael Naim (born February 6, 1978 in Paris ; French spelling also Yael Naïm or Yaël Naïm ; Hebrew יעל נעים= yaʿel naʿīm) is a French - Israeli singer and songwriter.
biography
Naim was born in France to Tunisian- Jewish parents. At the age of four, she and her family moved to the Israeli city of Ramat Hasharon near Tel Aviv , where she grew up. During the first years of school she became interested in the piano and learned to play the piano. At the age of twelve she discovered the music of the Beatles and began to compose her own songs. Later she also learned to play the guitar.
At 18, Yael Naim met musicians from Wynton Marsalis in a Tel Aviv jazz club and performed with them several times. During her two years of military service in the Israeli army , she was a soloist in the orchestra of the Israeli Air Force . She then toured Israel as a musician with the band The Anti Collision .
When she took part in a charity concert in Paris in 2000 , she was discovered and signed by the record company EMI . Her debut album In A Man's Womb was released a year later. But although she gained additional notoriety among French audiences through a role in the hit musical Les dix commandements (The Ten Commandments) by Pascal Obispo , which she played for two and a half years, the album flopped and threw it back for now.
From 2004 she sang in another musical, Spartacus le gladiateur (Spartacus the Gladiator). She also began working with percussionist and producer David Donatien . Over two years she continued to develop her style and worked on her second album, named after her, which was released in 2007 by Tôt ou tard / Warner . She then sings in English as well as in Hebrew and French. This time, Naim received critical acclaim, and her version of Britney Spears' song Toxic in particular attracted attention. The album entered the French charts at number 11 in October and also made it into the album charts in Belgium and Switzerland.
In early 2008, one of the album songs, New Soul , found use in advertising for a new model of Apple notebook , the Apple MacBook Air . Due to the frequent repetition in the TV commercials, the song became so popular that it entered the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 and many other charts around the world in early February .
Yael Naim is married to David Donatien.
Awards
- 2008: Winner of the Victoires de la Musique in the category "L'album de Musiques du Monde de l'année"
- 2011: Winner of the Victoires de la Musique in the Artiste féminine de l'année category
- 2016: Winner of the Victoires de la Musique in the Artiste féminine de l'année category
Discography
Albums
- 2001: In a Man's Womb
- 2007: Yael Naim
- 2010: She Was a Boy (with David Donatien )
- 2015: Older
- 2020: Nightsongs
Singles
- 2007: Toxic
- 2008: New Soul
- 2008: Too Long
- 2010: Go to the River
- 2015: Dream in My Head
swell
- ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH FR UK US
- ↑ Awards for music sales: CH
- ↑ Sophie Albers Ben Chamo: Music for the midlife crisis. In: www.juedische-allgemeine.de. April 5, 2020, accessed April 13, 2020 .
Web links
- Website by Yael Naim
- Yael Naim at laut.de
- Biography French / English
- Yael Naim in the Internet Movie Database (English)
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| SURNAME | Naim, Yael |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Naïm, Yaël (French spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli singer-songwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 6, 1978 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris , France |