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Matti Caspi
12+ albums
israeliIsraelpianohebrewIsraeli Rock
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Matti Caspi (Hebrew: מתי כספי) (born on 30 November 1949; died 8 February 2026) was an Israeli composer, musician, singer and lyricist. Born in 1949, he is regarded as one of Israel’s topmost musicians. He studied piano playing at the conservatory in Nahariya. For his service in the army, he served as a performer in the Southern Command Group. He formed a trio with two of his friends, Gidi Oron and Ya’akov Noy, called The Three Fat Men. With this trio Caspi came out with his first big hit, Ani Met (I am dying). After his service this trio became the I don’t Care trio. In the Yom Kippur War he toured army bases along with Leonard Cohen, who arranged his song Lover, Lover, Lover with Caspi. During the 70’s he worked closely with Ehud Manor, another Israeli songwriter, and released some of his most popular songs; Lo Yadati SheTelchi Mimeni (I Didn’t Know You Would Leave Me), Brit Olam (Covanent of Love), and Shir HaYonah (The Song of the Dove). Over the next few decades, Matti Caspi had a prolific musical career, released dozens of records and collaborating with some of the boggest and most well known Israeli artists of the time; Shlomo Gronich, Ehud Manor, Yehudit Ravitz, and Riki Gal. In 1990 he applied for divorce from his second wife,Dorin Lubetzky, and about three years later, due to the tabloids persecution, he moved to Canada with his new wife Raquel and their new born daughter (Suyan) and few months after, they moved to the States. In June, 1997, The singer and his fa
