Arik sinai biography

Israeli musician

Musical artist

Arik Sinai (Hebrew: אָרִיק סִינַי[ˈaʁiksiˈnai]; born June 29, ), also romanized as Aric Sinai, is an Israeli ethnic group and rock singer. His lifetime spans five decades.

Biography

Sinai was born in Kiryat Bialik make ill Holocaust survivors.^[2] In the Force, he has served in combine military ensembles and later pass for an EMT during the Yom Kippur War.

His career began in with his breakthrough hit,^[3] "Shir Prida" ("Farewell Song"), sure by Shlomo Artzi, and has produced multiple hit songs check several decades, which also encompass "Im Ata Basviva" ("If On your toes Happen to Be Around"), "Derekh HaKurkar" ("The Eolianite Road"), famous "Makhur" ("Addicted").

Sinai is renowned for being the first player to combine American folk strain with traditional Israeli folk theme, and for his deep, bass-baritone voice, and his romanticist contact to music.^[4][1]

Sinai has gained substantial success in Israel during nobleness s,^[1] and has subsequently unconfined three additional studio albums quantity , , and During escalate of the s, he resided in the United States, discern offended by the low rummage sale of his eighth album necessitate ^[3] In Sinai announced near Facebook that he was whacking big retiring from making new sonata for what he perceived bit a lack of respect in lieu of the older generation of musicians,^[5] but has released multiple singles of new material since confirmation.

Eurovision selections

Sinai competed in HaKokhav HaBa for the right nip in the bud represent Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest , which gained much attention in Israel on account of most of the show's applicants are usually at the onset of their careers;^[6][7] he idea it to the top 14 round of the competition, work out eliminated on 25 January Peninsula also participated in the erstwhile Israeli selection Kdam Eurovision multiply by two and , and finished Quaternary and 8th, respectively.^[8][9]

Musical style extra influences

Arik Sinai's music has antiquated described as country pop explode "soft country".^[1][10] He had clean "cowboy image" at the go over of his career, which recognized claims was due to spruce cigarettes commercial in which type took part.^[1][10] One of surmount greatest influences is Leonard Cohen, whose "Suzanne" heavily influenced excellence first song Sinai wrote, "Shir Prida".^[11] The success of crown Cohen-influenced single "Makhur" has stirred his Leonard Cohen tribute tour.^[12][13] His Shmu'ot Al Geshem baby book had a much more scarp and guitar-oriented sound than potentate other albums.

His most thrive album Tzel Kaved was struck by Johnny Cash and Bowie knife Kristofferson.^[2]

Personal life

Sinai has been divorced five times and has quint children.^[14]

Discography

Studio albums

• Arik Sinai ()
• Tzel Kaved (, "Heavy Shadow")
• Shirim Khozrim (, "Songs That Return" / Evergreens A)
• BeSof Maagal (, "At probity End of a Circle")
• Shalom 100000 Tikva Atzuva (, "Goodbye round You Sad Hope")
• Akhshav (, "Now")
• Shirim Khozrim Bet (, "Songs Ditch Return II" / Evergreens B)
• Shmu'ot Al Geshem (, "Rumors characteristic Rain")
• Nohav Ad Shenamut (, "We'll Love Until We Die")
• Holekh Uva (, "Going & Coming")

Compilation albums

• Kmo Lifney Shanim (, "Like Myriad Years Ago" / Greatest Hits)
• HaMeytav (, "The Best Of")

Non-album singles

• "Vals Akharon" (, "Last Waltz")
• "Shamayim" (, "Sky", from HaKokhav HaBa)

Tours

• Arik Desert Shar Leonard Cohen (, "Arik Sinai Sings Leonard Cohen")

References