Avihu Medina
Background information
BornAugust 19, 1948
Tel Aviv, Israel
GenresMediterranean Israeli music
Occupation(s)Composer, arranger, songwriter, and singer
Websitewww.hebrewsongs.com/artists-avihumedina.htm

Avihu Medina (Hebrew: אביהו מדינה; born August 19, 1948, in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli composer, arranger, songwriter, and singer of Mediterranean Israeli music.[1][2]

Medina was born in Tel Aviv. He was the third son of Aaron and Leah Medina.[3] 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.[1] He is Jewish, and his father was a cantor.[1]

As a teenager he lived on Kibbutz Kissufim.[4] He served as a tank commander in the Israel Defense Forces.[3] In the 1980s he established a diamond polishing business.[4]

Avihu is a resident of Petah Tikva.[3]

Music career

Avihu has composed more than 401 Mizrachi music songs.[5] Through 2007, he had released nine albums.[6] He is considered by some to be the best-known Oriental singer, and has composed many of Zohar Argov's songs.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c Amy Horowitz (2010). Mediterranean Israeli Music and the Politics of the Aesthetic. ISBN 978-0814334652. Retrieved July 20, 2011.
  2. ^ Rebecca L. Stein, Ted Swedenburg (2005). Palestine, Israel, and the politics of popular culture. ISBN 0822386879. Retrieved July 20, 2011.
  3. ^ a b c "אביהו מדינה". Archived from the original on January 18, 2012. Retrieved July 20, 2011.
  4. ^ a b Zohar Argov's flower that launched a million cassettes, Haaretz
  5. ^ Motti Regev, Edwin Seroussi (2004). Popular music and national culture in Israel. ISBN 9780520936881. Retrieved July 20, 2011.
  6. ^ Fred Skolnik, Michael Berenbaum (2007). Encyclopaedia Judaica. ISBN 9780028659411. Retrieved July 20, 2011.
  7. ^ Anton La Guardia (2003). War without end: Israelis, Palestinians, and the struggle for a promised land. Macmillan. p. 242. Retrieved July 20, 2011. Avihu Medina.

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