David D'Or Biography

Double Platinum
Begova Mishtane
David and Eti
Platinum

David and Shlomo (Double Platinum)
Voice of love (Taiwan)
David and the Philharmonic
David D'or
Gold
Baneshama
Shirat Rabim
Like the wind
 

Platinum for Shirat-Rabim - 2009

Autographing Disk in Taiwan 2008

David D'or's unique counter-tenor voice is known throughout the world and led him to perform in the presence of the King of Thailand and the Pope at the Vatican among many others around the world, but an international career at the opera world, including a very tempting offer from the Metropolitan opera in New York, did not appeal to him. He decided instead to go in search of his roots.

Born in Israel (where he is a very well known star), coming from a family of Libyan Jewish cantors with ancient sources in Spanish Andalusia, his root-searching led him to discover and uncover a unique treasure which led back to the chanting at the Holy Temple. David discovered that his great-grandfather was one of the most important Rabbis in Libya, originating from a family of Jews who were expelled from Spain during the inquisition.

He approached Rabbis from the Libyan community in search of the source of the beautiful prayer songs he heard as a child in his home and in synagogue. Their belief is that those magical holy songs were orally passed from father to son and are related back to the prayer songs which were sung by the Levites at the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. Nowadays the songs are used by the Libyan Jewish community in the prayers of Yom Kippur and the Holy Days.

David has collected these holy songs, ancient chants, Yemenite Jewish songs of prayer, Sabbath songs such as "Lecha Dodi" ( with a melody that he had discovered in an ancient synagogue), and with his band of young virtuoso musicians from different origins (North Africa, Middle East, Balkan) he has created a new show, full of emotion and energy.

A lively "melting pot" of sounds, rhythms and colors, using traditional instruments such as the Gumbush (Turkish Banjo-like instrument), accordion, Duduk, clarinet, violin, various middle-eastern percussions… and even a Shofar, the traditional ram's horn which is blown in Jewish holy days in the synagogue and known "to open the sky for prayers and wishes".

Currently David is working on his new international album which will capture the magic of this new live show already taking the world by storm and generating overwhelming reviews around the globe.

 The new album will feature a selection of Jewish prayers and chants in a celebration of emotion and energy.

2008 - David D'Or published his new CD: 'SHIRAT RABIM' - which became a Gold Record in just 3 weeks.

2008 - David performs in all Womad concerts and wins 'Favorite of the audience'...  In 2007 David was invited to perform at the WOMAD Festival with Peter Gabriel in London, and Singapore and received exciting reviews from the BBC, and the entire international media. David also performed in Taiwan and Singapore for audience of thousands of cheering fans. 2007 performed also in Belgrade, Poland, China, Bangkok, Italy and more. and published a new Live concert album.

Among the international orchestras D'Or performed with are: The Israeli Philharmonic, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Rome Philharmonic and the Budapest Philharmonic. Among the conductors he has collaborated with are: Zubin Mehta, Sergio Comissiona, Gary Bertini and many other Israeli conductors including Rafi Kadishzon, Eli Yafe and Yaron Gotfrid.