A-WA

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A-WA
A-WA performing in 2015
A-WA performing in 2015
Background information
OriginShaharut, Israel
Genres
Years active2015-
Labels
  • Tôt ou tard
  • BMG
Members
  • Liron Haim
  • Tagel Haim<
  • Tair Haim
Websitea-wamusic.com

A-WA (

Arabic for Yes) is an Israeli band made up of the three sisters Tair, Liron, and Tagel Haim. Their single "Habib Galbi" (Love of My Heart) became a global hit, with its Yemenite traditional music mixed with hip hop and electronic music.[1]

Personal lives

The Haim sisters grew up in the

Sana'a and were brought to Israel during Operation Magic Carpet
.

The Haim sisters spent most of their holidays with their paternal grandparents, singing piyyutim,[3] traditional liturgical poems in Hebrew and Aramaic, as well as traditional Yemenite songs in Arabic sung by women. Their parents also played a variety of music genres in their house, with their father playing guitar, bouzouki, and darbuka.[4] At school, the sister took voice, piano, theater, and dance lessons.[5]

Tair has a BA in music from Levinsky College of Education in Tel Aviv, while Liron is an architect, and Tagel is a graphic designer and illustrator. They also have two younger sisters, Shir and Tzlil, and a brother, Evyatar, who is a sound technician and was involved in the production of the album Habib Galbi.[6]

Musical career

A-WA first formed in 2011, after the trio finished college,[7] and they began uploading music to YouTube.[8]

A-WA in 2016

The trio was discovered by

Yemenite dialect of Judeo-Arabic. He showed the demo to a few elder Yemenite women, who mistook the sisters for actual singers from Yemen.[2] The music video, released in early March,[8] went viral in the Muslim world,[9] especially in Yemen.[10][11] The three officially released the single in April 2015,[5] and it became the first song in Arabic to hit number 1 on the Israeli pop charts.[12][13] They toured in Europe after the single's release.[5] The trio debuted the other songs from their debut album during performances in September 2015.[5] The record itself was released in 2016.[5]

A-WA's second studio album, Bayti Fi Rasi, was released in 2019. It is inspired by their great-grandmother Rachel's experiences when immigrating to Israel from Yemen as a single mother and subsequent life in a transition camp.[14][15][16] The trio directed a music video for one of the album's songs, "Hana Mash Hu Al Yaman".[14] That same year, the group was invited to perform at the torch-lighting ceremony on Israel's independence day.[14] In September 2019, A-WA was invited to play a Tiny Desk Concert at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C.[16][17] Throughout the end of the year, they toured in Europe and the United States.[4]

In early 2020, Tair released a solo single, titled "Mitbashelet Leat".[18]

Musical style

During their childhood, the three sisters listened to many different kinds of music, including

hip hop, reggae, and progressive rock, but their major source of inspiration has been the traditional Yemenite songs heard at their paternal grandparents' home.[19] Their music follows the same trend as did Ofra Haza, their main inspiration,[20] decades ago,[2] mixing in this case traditional Yemenite folk music with electronic tunes, reggae, and hip hop, which they call "yemenite folk n' beat".[21]

The trio also cites psychedelic rock, including Deep Purple and Pink Floyd, as influential in their music.[20]

Discography

  • Habib Galbi (2016)
  • Bayti Fi Rasi (2019)

See also

References

  1. ^ "The Israeli Sisters Whose Music Video Is Sweeping Across the Arab World". Archived from the original on 6 April 2018. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
  2. ^ a b c "A-Wa's Unlikely Journey from Rural Israel to Global Fame". The Forward. 6 August 2015. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
  3. ^ Steinberg, Jessica. "The hip-hop groove of the Yemenite tune". www.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
  4. ^ a b Paltrowitz, Darren (17 June 2019). "A-WA's Liron Haim, Tagel Haim and Tair Haim on Making Music that's Diverse". Jewish Journal. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
  5. ^ a b c d e Davis, Barry (6 September 2015). "Digging them roots". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
  6. ^ Arad, Dafna (3 April 2015). "The Other Haim Song-sisters Are Yemenite – and Just as Viral". Haaretz. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
  7. ^ "Touring Tel Aviv with the Feminist and Fashionable A-WA Sisters". Vogue. 14 September 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
  8. ^ a b Press, Viva Sarah (30 March 2015). "Israel's Haim sisters conquer Arab music world". ISRAEL21c. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
  9. ^ Artsy, Avishay (5 June 2015). "Israel says A-WA — "Yes!" — to singing Yemeni sisters". The World. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
  10. ISSN 0190-8286
    . Retrieved 29 April 2023.
  11. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 29 April 2023.
  12. ^ Dwek, Joel (18 July 2020). "Israel: Habib Galbi – A-WA". 200worldalbums.com. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
  13. ^ "Meet A-WA, the Israeli Sister Trio Merging Yemenite Folk Songs and Electronic Beats". www.vice.com. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
  14. ^ a b c Burack, Emily (29 May 2019). "A-WA, a Band of Yemenite Jewish Sisters, Wants You to Feel at Home – Hey Alma". www.heyalma.com. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
  15. ^ Ahronheim, Anna (18 July 2019). "The sounds of Yemen: 3 years after first album, the Haim girls are back". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
  16. ^ a b Shapiro, Ari; Lonsdorf, Kat (3 September 2019). "The Sisters of A-WA 'Want to Bring Something New' to Yemen's Musical Traditions". NPR. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
  17. ^ Boilen, Bob (3 September 2015). "A-WA: Tiny Desk Concert". NPR. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
  18. ^ Goldman, Hannah Aliza (21 May 2020). "Tair Haim's New Single Is a Powerful Ode to Mizrahi Women". Hey Alma. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
  19. ^ "A-WA's desert groove goes down a storm at South by Southwest festival". thestar.com. 19 March 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
  20. ^ a b Gehr, Richard (7 July 2016). "A-Wa: The Israeli Trio Making Yemenite Tradition Global". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
  21. ^ "A-Wa : trois soeurs entre folk yéménite et rythmes électroniques". Konbini – Musique, cinéma, sport, food, news : le meilleur de la pop culture (in French). 26 June 2015. Retrieved 29 April 2023.

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