Haim Uliel (; born 22 December 1956) is an Israeli singer and musician. Uliel is part of a movement that blends traditional Moroccan music with contemporary rock.
Uliel was born in
Sderot
Sderot (, , ; , sometimes Romanized as "Sederot") is a western Negev city and former development town in the Southern District (Israel), Southern District of Israel. In , it had a population of .
Sderot is located less than a mile from Gaza St ...
and was the leader of the band
Sfatayim.
Ulliel is regarded as the central figure in the fusion of Moroccan music with contemporary rock that emerged from Sderot in the nineties.
[War Without End: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Struggle for a Promised Land
By Anton La Guardia, Macmillan, 2003, p. 249]
In 2000, Uliel released his debut album
Sanduk La'ajiv (Maghrebi Arabic for "magic box").
References
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1956 births
Living people
21st-century Israeli male singers
Israeli people of Moroccan-Jewish descent
Israeli pop singers
People from Sderot