Avihu Medina

Avihu Medina
Background information
Born (1948-09-19) September 19, 1948 (age 76)
Tel Aviv, Israel
GenresMediterranean Israeli music
Occupation(s)Composer, arranger, songwriter, and singer
Websitewww.hebrewsongs.com/artists-avihumedina.htm

Avihu Medina (Hebrew: אביהו מדינה; born August 19, 1948, in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli composer, arranger, songwriter, and singer of Mediterranean Israeli music.[1][2]

Medina was born in Tel Aviv. He was the third son of Aaron and Leah Medina.[3] His mother's family immigrated from Yemen in 1906 and she was born in Jerusalem, and his father immigrated from Yemen in 1939 when it was under the British Mandate.[1] He is Jewish, and his father was a cantor.[1]

As a teenager he lived on Kibbutz Kissufim.[4] He served as a tank commander in the Israel Defense Forces.[3] In the 1980s he established a diamond polishing business.[4]

Avihu is a resident of Petah Tikva.[3]

  1. ^ a b c Amy Horowitz (2010). Mediterranean Israeli Music and the Politics of the Aesthetic. ISBN 978-0814334652. Retrieved July 20, 2011.
  2. ^ Rebecca L. Stein, Ted Swedenburg (2005). Palestine, Israel, and the politics of popular culture. ISBN 0822386879. Retrieved July 20, 2011.
  3. ^ a b c "אביהו מדינה". Archived from the original on January 18, 2012. Retrieved July 20, 2011.
  4. ^ a b Zohar Argov's flower that launched a million cassettes, Haaretz