Daklon
Sign in to saveDaklon () (born Yosef Levy; ; 6 April 1944) is an Israeli singer. He was born in Tel Aviv's Kerem Hateimanim neighborhood, the son of Jewish immigrants from the Shar'ab region in Yemen. 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 () 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.
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Daklon (born Yosef Levy, April 6, 1944) is an [tav]Israeli singer and a trailblazer of Mizrahi music, a genre that fuses Middle Eastern, North African, and Mediterranean sounds. Born in Tel Aviv’s Kerem Hateimanim neighborhood to Jewish immigrants from Yemen, he began performing at age 11 and launched his professional career in the late 1950s. Daklon’s music draws on Yemenite Jewish traditions, biblical poetry, psalms, and ancient Jewish hymns, as well as popular Greek and Hindi melodies, which
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- יוסף לוי
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Daklon () (born Yosef Levy; ; 6 April 1944) is an Israeli singer. He was born in Tel Aviv's Kerem Hateimanim neighborhood, the son of Jewish immigrants from the Shar'ab region in Yemen. 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 () 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. 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 and Avihu Medina. 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.