I’ve had a nice exchange about Israeli music in the comments section of my Boaz Muada post. One of commentators, Eva Broman, just provided a great list of some of her favorite Israeli singers. Take it away, Eva…

Here is, with some delay, a few Israeli artists that I enjoy. Most of them come from a Sephardi/Mizrahi background, but their music ranges from Israeli pop/rock to more ethnic sounds.

Boaz Sharabi-a Yemenite pop/rock and ethnic singer with many wonderful songs. Here is a classic one, performed together with David Broza:

Boaz Sharabi & David Broza – Latet

Avner Gadassi, a Yemenite singer who made his debut in the 70’s:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84LW75oCRxk

Boaz

Mauda won “Kochav Nolad” with a version of his song “Menagen veshar”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61AS00u3Kt0

Margalit Tzanani…the old school “malka” of Israeli female Mizrahi singers. She has got a strange, bluesy sound. Here she sings her big hit “Az ma”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjuAiklmv4s

Check out her “Chomot cheimar”, again performed by Boaz Mauda.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p1vODCIvj8

“Hamelech” Zohar Argov in a classic performance. With “Haperach Begani” he won the Oriental Song Festival in 1982:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UBLsSoEjaY

And his heir to the throne, Eyal Golan singing a somewhat “rockified” version of that song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAxWboeF_9U

Thanks Eva. These are some great voices here. I particularly like Sharibi & Broza performance.

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