Birth name Avi Benedi Labels Payner Music Record label Payner | Years active 2001 – present | |
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Born April 2, 1980 (age 36)
Israel ( 1980-04-02 ) Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter
musician Instruments Vocals
Guitar
Drums
piano Genres Pop-folk, Pop music, Disco Associated acts Galena, Anelia, Emilia, Maria, Ani Hoang Similar Galena, Anelia, Emilia, Maria, Nelina | ||
Avi benedi alex ekel em yerevan official video
Avi Benedi (Hebrew: אבי בנדי, born April 2, 1980) is an Israeli singer and songwriter. He has released two albums: Avi Benedi & Diamond Band in 2001 (in Austria) and We Met Late (Встретились поздно) in 2012 (in Russia).
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Avi benedi backstage with the musicians singing za teb lyubov life on the set
Personal life
Avi Benedi was born in Israel on 2 April 1980. When he was four years old, his family moved to live in Vienna, Austria. His parents have Russian roots. His father, Eduard Babadost, is a famous tenor in Austria, and his grandfather is a folk artist in Tajikistan. Avi Benedi has two brothers: one is a jewellery and fashion designer, and the other is the talented young director, Lior Babadost.
Avi speaks and sings in a number of languages: Hebrew, English, German, Russian, Bulgarian, Persian, Bukhori, Slovakian and Romanian.
Career beginning: 1999–2013
Avi Benedi has graduated from the College of Photography and Film Arts in Vienna. From 1999 until 2008, he worked as operator-in-charge at Austrian TV channel ATV, but that did not prevent him from continuing to follow his dream.
In the meantime, he began writing his own music and working professionally with his band, which was called Diamond Band. Together, they became very popular and, in the period 2003-2006, performed many concerts across the world. In Israel, Avi Benedi and the Diamond Band had their breakthrough hit with the song Live Like In A Movie, which was at the top of the music charts for four weeks.
In 2006, Avi Benedi launched his solo career in Russia, where he moved to live for several years working together with Philipp Kirkorov for several projects.
Payner Music: 2014–present
Since the beginning of 2014, Avi Benedi has been working together with Bulgarian record label Payner. As a singer and composer, Avi Benedi became famous in Bulgaria for his two collaborations with Emilia: Кой ще му каже (Boi Tegali Li) and Balkania.
After the success of his two duets with Emilia, Avi Benedi gained popularity in Bulgaria and has been a special guest at concerts broadcast by TV channel Planeta and of many TV shows. His duets with Emilia also led to his involvement in the Planeta Summer 2014 national tour. In February 2015, Who Will Tell Him won the Best Duet of 2014 prize at Planeta’s Annual Music Awards.
On 29 October 2014, Avi Benedi officially launched his first solo project written as a gift to Bulgaria: Боже, пази (God Help Them). It was dedicated to the human tragedy resulting from the catastrophic floods in Bulgaria in 2014.
In 2015 he released 2 more solo songs За теб, Любов (For you, Love), written by him and the poet Doni Vasileva, and Хубав е Живота (Life is Beautiful) with Anelia performing the back vocals. In the end of the he announced his new song Истинска Жена (True Woman) together with Maria and Gumzata. Avi wrote the Hebrew part of the song and the Bulgarian part was written by Marieta Angelova. Official video was released on 15 February 2016.
In May 2016 Avi released a new song featuring the young Armenian star Alex. The name of the song is Ekel em Yerevan. In June 2016г. were promoted 3 songs, by Avi Benedi music and arranged. For Serbia, Andreana Cekic presented 300 svatova, and her colleague Jelena Paunovic - the song Zeni Me. For Israel, rapper Subliminal presented Tzeva Lahaim, which became total hit in just few days.
Avi began 2017 with releasing a new single, Войната в мен (The war within me) on 4 January writen by Anastasiya Mavrodieva and video directed by Lior Babadost.