Shye Ben Tzur

Surviving in both India and Israel, Shye Ben Tzur can be an Israeli vocalist and musician who composes qawwalis in Hebrew, Urdu, and Hindi, merging Sufi devotional music with Traditional western elements. Blessed in NEW YORK, Ben Tzur became thinking about Indian music after viewing Indian classical music artists Hariprasad Chaurasia and Zakir Hussain perform in Jerusalem. He journeyed to India and began monitoring Indian traditional music, and finally begun to compose qawwali music in his indigenous language, Hebrew. He frequently collaborates with Rajasthan folk music artists, and spent some time working with famous music artists such as for example Indian vocalist Shubha Mudgal, Spanish guitarist Fernando Perez, Israeli percussionist Zohar Fresco, yet others. A committed film enthusiast, he provides created and directed music movies and short movies, and constructed music for visible mass media. Also a poet, Ben Tzur’s initial assortment of poetry, Souls Expressions, was released in Israel in 1999. His debut record, Heeyam, was documented in India, Israel, and america of America, and premiered in 2003. Ben Tzur performed at Jahan-e-Khusrau, an annual Sufi music celebration that occurs in New Delhi, in 2004. His second record, Shoshan, premiered this year 2010. Even more stylistically different than his debut, the album received acclaim from many Indian and globe music magazines. In 2015, Ben Tzur documented music on the Mehrangarh Fort in the condition of Rajasthan, India, along with United kingdom guitarist/composer Jonny Greenwood (of Radiohead), manufacturer Nigel Godrich, and several Indian music artists dubbed the Rajasthan Express. The documenting program was filmed by movie director Paul Thomas Anderson and released being a film entitled Junun, and an record from the same name premiered by Nonesuch.