LIFE STORY

I was born and raised in Tel Aviv, Israel, a second generation to immigrants from Yemen. At a very early age I showed a strong tendency for creativity, spending a great deal of time painting and copying scenes that I saw in the movies.    

My parents encouraged me to take art classes at the Tel Aviv Museum and a year later I enrolled in V.I.Z.O High School for the Arts.

I got my first guitar at the age of twelve. Many of my friends and I were drawn to the spirit of the 60s and spent hours playing and singing the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Pink Floyd and others from that era.

In the 80s I moved to New York to complete my art studies and I joined the Art Student League Academy majoring in classical drawing, painting, sculpting and etching. At the same time I discovered my love for Spanish culture and music and started taking flamenco guitar lessons at the A.I.G (American Institute for Guitar).  During the same period I was introduced to the poets Nathan Zach and Allen Ginsburg which opened a wide window into the world of poetry.

At the beginning of the 90s I made my first trip to Spain to broaden my knowledge of Spanish music. At the end of the decade I met three other musicians and together we create a musical group named Diwan. Together we recorded a fusion album based on the traditional music of Yemenite Jews.

As the new millennium started I moved to Seville, Spain and began an art project called “WOMBS”; I ended up spending almost a decade in Seville.  In 2006 I participated in the recordings of the GLOBUS project in Los Angeles and during the summer of the same year I performed at the Wembley Arena, London with the same project.

As an extension of the “WOMBS” project I created and recorded the album Jewellery of Love&Death.

At 2023. My first poetry book – "Words Don’t Die In Their Sleep" has been published