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Artist
Gabi Shoshan
12+ albums
Israeli RockhebrewIsrael Male Singers70s
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Gabi Shoshan an Israeli singer and musician. He was born in 1950 in Casablanca, Morocco, and immigrated to Israel in 1955 From an early age, Shoshan was attracted to pop music and especially to Cliff Richard and "The Shadows", whose film "The Young Ones" influenced him in choosing the musical direction.In 1965 he joined the band "The Goldfingers" along with singer and guitarist Nissim Seroussi. In 1968, Shoshan moved to the band "The Chocolate", which included Zvika Pick and Shuki Levy, with whom he sang in the soundtrack of the movie "Lupo" and in the musical "Hair" (in the musical Shoshan played Berger, one of the plot's protagonists). In 1971 he joined the band "Apocalypse", of which he was a member until its dissolution a year After leaving "Chocolate", Shoshan starred in "Policeman Azoulay" and "Casablanca", recorded the songs "Silent Moment" and "I Do Not Know" as a lead singer and participated in the musical "I Am Nobody Knows". There he met Kobi Oshret and began working with him on his first solo album - "Black-Eyed Boy", which was released in 1973. As a result of Shoshan's dilemma between integrating into Hebrew music and continuing to focus on pop music, half of the album was in Hebrew and half in English. His second album, "Songs We Loved", was entirely in Hebrew. It included the classics written by Naomi Shemer "A Night at Achziv Beach", "Sometimes Stupid" and original songs such as "Little Girl". In 1975 he traveled to the United States and stayed there for abou
