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Asaf Avidan (born 1980) is an Israeli singer-songwriter and musician. He is also the creative force and front-man of folk/rock band Asaf Avidan & the Mojos. Avidan’s voice is perhaps his most known attribute. It has drawn comparisons worldwide to Janis Joplin, Robert Plant and Jeff Buckley and has garnered quotes such as “a new Messiah” by Rolling Stone Mexico, as well as “a hoarse angel”, a “force of nature” and “the lovechild of Dylan & Joplin”.
Avidan was born in Jerusalem, Israel in 1980. His parents were diplomats for the Israeli Foreign Office, and he spent four years of his childhood in Jamaica. After the mandatory army service in Israel, Avidan studied animation at Jerusalem’s Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design. His final project short film,“Find Love Now”, won its category at the Haifa Film Festival that year. After his studies, Avidan moved to Tel Aviv and worked as an animator, until a breakup with his long-time girlfriend shook his world and made him move back to Jerusalem, quit his job and turn full time to his up-till-then hobby – m
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Asaf Avidan (born March 23, 1980) is an Israeli singer-songwriter. From 2006 to 2011, he was part of the group Asaf Avidan & the Mojos, independently releasing three studio albums. In 2012, Avidan started a solo career
His vocal - sounding very much like the legendary Janis Joplin - is unmatched; and he sings primarily in English. "A genius… A new Messiah" (Rolling Stone Mexico) and "The most interesting voice in the Israeli music scene" are some of the accolades he has received.
Born in Jerusalem, Israel, to diplomats for the Israeli Foreign Office, Avidan spent four years of his childhood in Jamaica and also grew up in New York. In 2006, after breaking up with his long-time girlfriend, he moved back to Jerusalem desiring to pursue a music career. From 2006–2011 he featured in Asaf Avidan & the Mojos.
In 2012, Avidan released the single "Different Pulses", followed by the premiere of his debut solo studio album of the same name. The singer's follow-up record Gold Shadow (2015) was similarly successful in Europe, reaching Gold st
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A prodigal son returns: Asaf Avidan continues to prove his talent with riveting one-man show
Although he sings in English, Avidan spoke to the packed theater in Hebrew, telling the audience at the outset that he did not consider his music “escapism.”
By LIAM FORBERG, STEVE LINDEAsked what it’s like to come back to Israel eight months after October 7, multi-talented Jerusalem-born singer-songwriter Asaf Avidan said he was struck by how the war had become part of normal life here.
“There is a strangeness coming here,” Avidan, who now lives in southwest France and is in the midst of an international tour, told The Jerusalem Post after a powerful two-hour solo performance at The Jerusalem Theater on Monday evening.
“Being an Israeli far away from Israel, I read the news like 10 times a day. I guess if I came like half a year ago, it would have been very different, but now there’s this thing that everybody has adapted to live in this reality, and somehow it seems normal. That’s the first thing that hit me – how life goes on, which is incredible but insane and hor
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