Assaf Amdursky ( he, אסף אמדורסקי; born January 30, 1971) is an Israeli singer, songwriter and music producer.

Music career

Amdursky began his career in Israel with the band "Taarovet Escot", which also included Amir "Jango" Rusianu and Yirmi Kaplan. Together they released one album in 199

The band soon broke up, and all of its members pursued solo careers. His first eponymous solo album was released in 1994. He wrote and composed most of the songs on it. In it he played guitar, keyboards, percussion, bass, harmonica, and trumpet, and collaborated with Karni Postel, Vered Klepter, Jonnie , as well as his bandmates from Taarovet Escot. It yielded the hits ''Yekirati'' (''My Darling")''and ''Ahava Khadasha'' (''New Love''). The album was re-mastered and re-released with bonus tracks in 2008. His second album, also eponymous, was released in 1996. On it he experimented with more keyboard-oriented arrangements and longer tracks. The songs ''Hashamayim Hakkhulim'' (''The Blue Sky'') and ''Hu He'emin La'' (''He Believed Her'') became hits. In 1999 Amdursky published his album ''Menoim Shketim'' (''Silent Engines'') with the hit songs ''15 minutes'' and ''Khalom Kehe'', which featured a recorded monologue of the late musician

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. The album went gold. It also included a duo with

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in the closing song ''Ahava...'' (''Love...''). During the mid-1990s, Amdursky moved to the United States to pursue a DJ and

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production career. He teamed up with

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to produce a remix for their debut single "You Got My Love" on Sub Culture Records.With production partner Omri Anghel, he formed "Hard Attack." The duo released their first single on the Jellybean Recordings Label, "Set Me Free", which immediately climbed its way up to the top-20 ''

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'' Dance Music chart. From 1999 to 2002, Amdursky released a number of remixes and original tracks as a producer, in collaboration with Israeli producer Haim Laroz. Back in Israel, Amdursky released a live album in 2000, which documents a live show with a new electronic version to his earlier songs. In 2000 he was awarded the Israeli ''Singer of the Year'' award (the

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), and the ''Album of the Year'' award for ''Silent Engines'

In 2005, he produced ''Kadima Akhora'' (''Forth and Back'') – a double cover album, which interprets 1980s Israeli songs with a touch of

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. Amdursky's self-released studio album ''Harei At'' (''Thou Art''), released in 2008, also went gol

It combined 11 new rock, pop, and

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style songs, all dealing with love and partnership

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, and collaborations with guest singers

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and

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. Amdursky also worked as the music producer on the movies

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(2003), Ahava Columbianit (2004), and Lost Islands (2008

For the latter he received the

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. In 2019, he performed as part of the "Menashe Forests" festival alongside Ella Ronen, Abigail Kovari, and others.Recommendations for Menashe Forest Festival
Time Out, 2019

Personal life

Amdursky's father, Benny Amdursky (1931–1994), was a great Israeli singer and producer. Amdursky was married for 12 years to singer-songwriter

Michal Amdursky Michal Amdursky ( he, מיכל אמדורסקי; born in 1975) is an Israeli dancer and singer. Biography Michal Amdursky was married to Assaf Amdursky, with whom she has two children. She is one of the pioneers of the Israeli Dance Music genre. ...

, who came out with a solo album after her divorce from Amdursky. The divorce is the subject of some of the songs on her album, in which she sings of emerging finally from her ex-husband's shado

References

External links

Assaf Amdursky; CD Baby
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