Avihu Medina
Avihu Medina (born August 19, 1948, in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli composer, arranger, songwriter, and singer of Mizrahi music.
Avihu Medina
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- Name
- Avihu Medina
- Born
- 19 September 1948
- Birthplace
- Tel Aviv, Israel
- Occupation
- Composer, arranger, songwriter, and singer
- Nationality
- Israel
- Fields
- mizrahi
- Honours
- Worthy of the City of Petah Tikva
- Languages
- Hebrew
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Avihu Medina (born August 19, 1948, in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli composer, arranger, songwriter, and singer of Mizrahi music.
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• Name — Avihu Medina • Native Name — אביהו מדינה • Born — 19 September 1948 • Birthplace — Tel Aviv, Israel • Genre — Mizrahi music • Occupation — Composer, arranger, songwriter, and singer • Website — http: www.hebrewsongs.com/artists-avihumedina.htm
Biography
Biography
Medina was born in Tel Aviv. He was the third son of Aaron and Leah Medina. His mother's family immigrated from Yemen in 1906 and she was born in Jerusalem, and his father immigrated from Yemen in 1939 when it was under the British Mandate. He is Jewish, and his father was a cantor. As a teenager he lived on Kibbutz Kissufim. He served as a tank commander in the Israel Defense Forces. In the 1980s he established a diamond polishing business. Avihu is a resident of Petah Tikva.
Music career
Music career
Avihu has composed more than 401 Mizrachi music songs. Through 2007, he had released nine albums. He is considered by some to be the best-known Mizrahi singer, and has composed many of Zohar Argov's songs.
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In 2015 Medina was honored as one of the torchbearers in the national Israeli Independence Day ceremony.
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- 1.Amy Horowitz. Mediterranean Israeli Music and the Politics of the Aesthetic. 2010. 978-0814334652.
- 2.Rebecca L. Stein, Ted Swedenburg. Palestine, Israel, and the politics of popular culture. 2005. 0822386879.
- 3.אביהו מדינה.
- 4.Zohar Argov's flower that launched a million cassettes, Haaretz
- 5.Motti Regev, Edwin Seroussi. Popular music and national culture in Israel. 2004. 9780520936881.
- 6.Fred Skolnik, Michael Berenbaum. Encyclopaedia Judaica. 2007. 9780028659411.
- 7.Anton La Guardia. War without end: Israelis, Palestinians, and the struggle for a promised land. Macmillan. 242. 2003.
- 8.Knesset Speaker Edelstein to Independence Day torch lighters: 'You serve as proof that we are a start-up nation'. The Knesset. 2015-04-20.
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