Haim Moshe

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Israeli musical artist

title: "Haim Moshe" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1956-births", "living-people", "20th-century-israeli-male-singers", "21st-century-israeli-male-singers", "israeli-people-of-yemeni-jewish-descent", "people-from-ramat-hasharon", "musicians-from-tel-aviv"] description: "Israeli musical artist" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haim_Moshe" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Israeli musical artist ::

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Field	Value
name	Haim Moshe
image	Haim Moshe.JPG
caption	Haim Moshe at the Independence Day concert in Eilat on 6 May 2003
native_name	חיים משה
native_name_lang	he
birth_date
birth_place	Ramat HaSharon, Israel
origin	HaTikvah, Tel Aviv, Israel
instrument	Vocals
genre	Mizrahi, Arabic
occupation	Singer
years_active	1975present
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Biography

Haim Moshe was born in 1955 in Ramat HaSharon, Israel. His parents were Yemenite Jews who immigrated to Israel after World War II. 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. |last=Regev |first=Motti |author2=Edwin Seroussi |title=Popular Music and National Culture in Israel |page=215 |year=2004 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=0-520-23652-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kAxLAn6sOb4C |accessdate=26 August 2008

Musical career

Moshe began his professional music career as a member of the band "Sounds of the Vineyard" (, Tzliley Ha-Kerem) 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 wedding performances by Daklon and others. This Mediterranean or Oriental style, which had been neglected by the established Israeli music industry, became known as "cassette tape music" or "central bus station music" (after the stalls in the Tel Aviv Central Bus Station where many of the tapes were sold). Many of the songs were taken from Greek and Turkish pop, with the words translated or entirely rewritten in Hebrew by specialist lyricists, and the music reworked into Yemeni style. Mediterranean music grew in popularity after 1980 and eventually became a profitable business for the Reuveni brothers. |last=Agassi |first=Tirzah |title=Bus Station Blues |date=3 May 1991 |work=The Jerusalem Post

From the mid-1980s, Moshe began to incorporate more "Shirei Eretz Yisrael" into his repertoire. These "songs of the Land of Israel" formed a corpus of standard Israeli songs, many with patriotic themes, developed to promote an Israeli national identity. This helped Moshe achieve greater mainstream popularity in Israel, but also attracted criticism that he was abandoning his Mizrahi musical and cultural roots in a process of "Ashkenazification." :"My friends say to me: 'Haim, you're exaggerating. You're running out on us. You will soon be an Ashkenazi. Just when we have found a good singer in our style, you turn to another style.' They want me with them, to keep the style for them, to keep up the standards. So that musica mizrahit will receive the honour it deserves. My roots are black, real black… I am and will always be Haim Moshe with the Yemenite accent, the jargon and the admiration for the Oriental culture." |last=Halper |first=Jeff |author2=Edwin Seroussi |author3=Pamela Squires-Kidron |title=Musica mizrakhit: Ethnicity and Class Culture in Israel |journal=Popular Music |volume=8 |issue=2 |date=May 1989 |pages=131–141 |jstor=853463|doi=10.1017/S0261143000003329

Over the following decades, he released a string of hit albums, among them "Ten LaZman Lalekhet" (Let Time Pass),. |last=Goldberg |first=Andy |work=The Jerusalem Post |date=26 January 1989 |title=Oriental Duo to Tour His performance of the song "Pictures in an Album," composed by Ze'ev Nehama and Tamir Kaliski, was the 1999 Golden Feather Awards Song of the Year. |last=Kaye |first=Helen |title=Eyal Golan gets Album of the Year |work=The Jerusalem Post |date=31 January 1999 |page=8 His most recent album is "Karov LaLev (Close to the Heart)," released in 2008.

Cultural influence

Haim Moshe's music became popular not only with Israelis, but also with Arabs in surrounding countries. He began to receive fan mail from young people in Syria and throughout the region, and it was even rumored that during the 1982 Lebanon War, the Israeli and Syrian armies were both listening to his "Linda." |last=Petreanu |first=Dan |work=The Jerusalem Post |title=The Thursday Interview: Haim Moshe. A musician, not a political crusader. |date=2 February 1989 He became a positive symbol of Israel within the Arab world, |last=Lynfield |first=Ben |title=Peace, Rattle and Roll |work=The Jerusalem Post |date=31 March 1989 and of Mizrahi culture within Israel. He has been "a bridge between East and West in Israel", predicting that "In another twenty years this music will be known as the real Israeli music – not eastern or western but the authentic sound."

Discography

Moshe has released 35 albums, not including collections. Some of the best known are:

Ahavat Hayay, 1983 (Love of My Life, )
Hakolot shel Piraeus, 1990 (Voices of Piraeus, )
Etmol, 1995 (Yesterday, )
Hatmonot SheBa'albom, 1998 (Pictures in an Album, )
Od Shana Chalfa, 2000 (Another Year Has Passed, )
Emtza Hachayim, 2001 (In the Middle of Life, )

Grenade attack

On 8 February 2010, an explosive device was thrown at his Ramat Hasharon home. There were no reports of injuries or damage.{{cite news |last=Hartman |first=Ben |title=Who's targeting Haim Moshe? |work=The Jerusalem Post |date=10 February 2010 |url=https://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=168292 |accessdate=27 May 2010

References

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