Birth name Ariel Zilber Name Ariel Zilber Role Singer-songwriter | Years active 1967-present Children Roy Zilber Website Official Site | |
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Occupation(s) Singer-songwriterComposerMusician Labels CBS RecordsHataklitHamon Productions Albums Live, Politically Correct, Ariel Zilber and the Brosh Band Spouse Meira Zilber (m. ?–1976), Shoshana Zilber Similar People Meir Ariel, Shalom Hanoch, Ehud Banai, Yehudit Ravitz, Gidi Gov | ||
Instruments Vocals, Piano, trumpet | ||
Israel music history songwriter composer singer ariel zilber seventies song
Ariel Zilber (Hebrew: אריאל זילבר; born September 23, 1943) is an Israeli singer-songwriter and composer.
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- Israel music history songwriter composer singer ariel zilber seventies song
- ariel zilber
- Biography
- Music career
- Awards and recognition
- Albums
- References
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Biography
Ariel Zilber was born in Tel Aviv. His mother, Bracha Zefira was a singer and his father, Ben Ami Zilber, played the violin in the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra. He attended the Hadassim boarding school on Kibbutz Gan Shmuel until the age of fifteen. After losing a foot in a gun accident, he returned to Tel Aviv and began studying the trumpet.He spent several years in England and France building up a career, but eventually returned to Tel Aviv.
Later in life, Zilber became a religious Jew and a follower of the Lubavicher rebbe. He was a resident of Alei Sinai, but now lives with his wife on Moshav Gitit.
Music career
In the 1970s, he established the innovative rock band Tamuz, with Shalom Hanoch, and later headed the group Brosh. His songs "Rutzi, Shmulik Koreh Lach" ("Run, Shmulik Is Calling You"), "Ani Shochev Li Al Hagav" ("Lying on My Back"), "Ten Li Koach" ("Give Me Strength"), "Milliard Sinim" ("A Billion Chinese") and others were known for their amusing, somewhat bizarre lyrics.
In the 1980s, he launched a solo career. His music spans various genres, from rock, pop, hip-hop and Arab music to Ethiopian-inspired music. His album "Ha'atalef Vehatarnigol" ("The Bat and the Rooster") included four Hasidic melodies composed by Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburgh.According to Zilber, the title song is taken from a Talmudic analogy in which a rooster crows excitedly as a new day dawns while the bat lives in darkness.
Awards and recognition
In 2014 Zilber won an ACUM award for his contribution to music. Initially, he was to be granted the lifetime achievement award but due to his political views, the prize was downgraded to an award for his musical accomplishments.