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Artist
Danny Sanderson
12+ albums
israelihebrewIsraelIsraeli Rock
about
Sanderson was born in Kfar Blum in Israel, grew up in Haifa and Savion and at the age of 10 moved with his family to the United States where he lived until he was 18. Sanderson was drawn early in life to music, and played in several rock bands, mainly influenced by mid-60s American pop and rock. At the age of 18 he was conscripted to the Israel Defense Force and played guitar with the Nahal military singing band. Sanderson was mainly noted at the time as a phenomenal guitar player, but soon also gained reputation as a composer and arranger. In 1972, after a short and unsuccessful bout in London, Sanderson returned to Israel and founded, along with friends Alon Oleartchik, Ephraim Shamir, Gidi Gov, Meir Feningstein and later on Yoni Rechter and Yizkhak Klepter, a new band called Kaveret (Hebrew: כוורת, bee hive). The original idea for the band, formulated by Oleartchik and Sanderson, was to create a pop-rock operatic show, centered around the fictional figure "Poogy" which Feningstein and Sanderson created. The operatic show did not work, but when separated into individual songs became an instant hit in Israel, catapulting Kaveret into the position of the most successful pop-rock band in Israel then and since. Sanderson was the dominant force in Kaveret. He wrote the music, alone or with other Kaveret members, to all the songs in Kaveret's first two albums (except one, which was a cover of an old Israeli song), as well as the lyrics which set a witty and humorous line for t
