Arik Einstein (born January 3, 1939) is a singer, songwriter and an Israeli actor. He was a member of the Nahal bands Green Onion, Yarkon Trio, Tall Windows and A Bunch of Coop. His collaboration with Shalom Hanoch and Churchills band produced the first rock albums in Israel.

Among his famous songs, they also wrote the words: "Me and You", "Why should I take to heart", "Slow Down", "sitting on the fence", "like being at home", "my mother" and "Get a baby", "what about me", "Fragile", "time", "San Francisco on the water", "post-war song" and more.

Yoav Kutner described him: "Arik Einstein is more than the greatest Israeli singer. Einstein is the land of Israel Hamitit"tz

Biography

Einstein was born as a lion, raised and educated in Tel Aviv. Single year and stage actor Deborah "tent" Jacob Einstein. His parents lived on Gordon Street class "sub-tenants." He attended elementary school in UD Gordon (whose name was then the education in the north). In his youth he was a member of the "young guard" and the youth champion in high jump and repelling the shot. He was also a basketball player Hapoel Tel Aviv "and due to the high technical ability called" Aryan ".

For his military service, his father encouraged him to try out for the troupe, despite the lion's aspiration was to be a sports trainer (DS), but because of myopia was not accepted for this position, we look at the Nahal troupe (to Chaim Topol and Uri Zohar) and was accepted. The band participated in the program "Live" and 'flying off the handle. " Among the big hits they performed in the framework of the Nahal troupe "Ya Moon" and the spirit of autumn. "

In 1959 he left the army and joined the satirical theater "Sambatyon" and the band spring onions, which was also shared by: Uri Zohar, Chaim Topol, Ilana Rubina, Yoram Gaon, Zaharira Harifai and others. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.