Artist's albums
Shacharut
2000 · album
Azazme
1999 · album
Samar
1996 · album
Al Ol
1994 · album
Andy Teirstein: Restless Nation
2022 · album
My Old Love
2021 · album
לובו בלוז
2021 · single
נתתי לך הכל
2021 · single
Death Don't Have No Mercy
2021 · single
סולו עראק 2019
2019 · single
Lullabies from Exile
2014 · album
Said Kal Regel
2014 · single
Songs from the Desert
2013 · album
And You Love
2011 · album
Inshalla Shalom
2005 · album
One
2003 · album
Asmar
2002 · album
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Biography
Iraqi-Israeli musician Yair Dalal was a prolific composer, violinist, and oud player dedicated to building bridges of music between the different cultures his heritage bound him to. Dalal was born in 1955 to Iraqi-born parents who had recently immigrated to Israel. He was raised in Israel on a kibbutz, and grew up studying violin in the Western mode. In 1982, a performance with Bedouin musicians in the Sinai led Dalal to look into his own heritage for musical inspiration. Dalal developed a synthesis of Arabic and Jewish sounds, and used his music to campaign for peace between the two cultures. The '90s saw numerous releases from Dalal, both as a soloist and with the Al Ol Ensemble. He continued to expand his musical language, drawing on the music of the desert and mixing its strings and melodies with instrumentation and influences from Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Dalal was also tireless peace advocate. In 1994, he performed in Oslo at a celebration to honor the first anniversary of the peace accords with a chorus of Palestinian, Israeli, and Norwegian children. The performance illustrated Dalal's commitment not only to the universal power of music, but to its ability to unite cultures and communities in strife. In 2002, he was nominated by the BBC World Service for a BBC Radio 3 World Music Award. While he did not take the award home, the nomination validated Dalal's work as both a musician and an advocate for peace. ~ Johnny Loftus, Rovi