Daklon (born Joseph Levy; 6 April 1944) is an Israeli singer. He was born in
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...
's
Kerem Hateimanim
Kerem HaTeimanim ( he, כֶּרֶם הַתֵּימָנִים, lit. "Vineyard of the Yemenites") is a neighborhood in the center of Tel Aviv, Israel. The neighborhood is adjacent to the Carmel Market.
History
Kerem HaTeimanim was established ...
neighborhood, the son of Jewish immigrants from the Shar'ab region in
Yemen
Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...
.
Daklon explains the source of his nickname: "In those days everyone in the Kerem had a nickname. Your given name was a form of identification . As a kid I was quite short and skinny, (Hebrew: דק, ''dak''; ''daq''), and so, they called me ''Daklon''." He started his musical career as an 11-year-old when his teacher sent him to do a piece for a religious music radio show.
Career
At the end of the 1950s Daklon's professional career took off. He was first inspired to take his music to the professional level by the famous Moroccan-born Israeli singer,
Joe Amar
Yosef "Jo" Amar ( he, יוסף (ג'ו) עמר, ar, يوسف (جو) عمار) (1 June 1930 – 26 June 2009
nyt ...
. Daklon had also translated famous Greek and Hindi songs into Hebrew in the 1960s, at the beginning of his career. Since the 1960s, he has been performing with
Haim Moshe
Haim Moshe ( he, חיים משה, , sometimes Chaim Moshe on recordings),
born 20 September 1955 is an Israeli singer whose musical style has crossed over from Yemenite and Mediterranean "ethnic" music to include mainstream Israeli and western po ...
and
Avihu Medina
Avihu Medina ( he, אביהו מדינה, born August 19, 1948 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli composer, arranger, songwriter, and singer of Mediterranean Israeli music.
Medina was born in Tel Aviv. He was the third son of Aaron and Leah Medina. His mo ...
. He has produced more than 35 albums to date.
Daklon music draws on Jewish, Middle-Eastern and Yemenite Jewish poetry, psalms, Bible, and ancient Jewish hymns.
See also
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Music of Israel
The music of Israel is a combination of Jewish and non-Jewish music traditions that have come together over the course of a century to create a distinctive musical culture. For almost 150 years, musicians have sought original stylistic elements ...
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Culture of Israel
The roots of the culture of Israel developed long before modern Israel's independence in 1948, and traces back to ancient Israel ( 1000 BCE). It reflects Jewish culture, Jewish history in the diaspora, the ideology of the Zionist movement that de ...
References
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1944 births
Living people
20th-century Israeli male singers
Israeli people of Yemeni-Jewish descent
Jewish Israeli musicians
Jewish singers
21st-century Israeli male singers