חיים משה is tagged as: חיים משה {Haim Moshe; sometimes Chaim Moshe on recordings} (b. 1955) is an Israeli singer whose musical style has crossed over from Yemenite and Mediterranean “ethnic” music to include mainstream Israeli and western pop elements. He has helped Mizrahi music achieve wide popularity both in Israel and in Arab countries. Moshe was born on the 20th September 1955 in Ramat HaSharon, Israel. His parents were Yemenite Jews who immigrated to Israel after World War II; as Mizrahi, or Eastern, Jews they had a culture and background that was distinct from the Ashkenazi (European) Jews who played the major role in establishing the modern state and culture of Israel. As a child he learned to sing not only Israeli and Jewish religious music in the synagogue, but also Greek, Turkish, and Arabic songs, which he performed for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs. As a young man, Moshe worked in a print shop, and he served in the Israeli military in the mid 1970s. Moshe began his professional music career as a member of the band Sounds of the Vineyard (artist]צלילי הכרם) along with Daklon and Moshe Ben-Mosh, playing in clubs and at weddings. Their music was distributed by the brothers Asher and Meir Reuveni, who had started informally selling cassette-tape recordings of... Read More About חיים משה Biography...  Send חיים משה ringtones to your cell
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