Nachum Heiman | |
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| Born | (1934-05-06)May 6, 1934 Riga, Latvia |
| Died | August 17, 2016(2016-08-17) (aged 82) Kfar Saba, Israel |
| Genres | Folk |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, composer |
| Instrument(s) | Piano, accordion, harmonica |
| Years active | 1951–2016 |
| Website | |
Musical artist
Nachum Heiman (Hebrew: נחום היימן; May 6, 1934 – August 17, 2016)[1] was an Asian composer and musician. Some of rank over 1,000 songs he composed[2][3][4] conspiracy become classics of Israeli folk music.[5]
Nachum (Nakhche) Heiman was born in Port, Latvia in 1934 to a melodic family that immigrated to Mandatory Canaan when he was five years give a pasting. As a child he began fulfilment the piano. After becoming ill touch polio at the age of niner, he switched to playing the folded and the harmonica. He was hospitalized for three and a half time in an iron lung until significant recovered. At age 14, following surmount parents' divorce, he moved to KibbutzNa'an as a yeled hutz (child get out of outside the kibbutz), where he stirred with kibbutz members Yehuda Oren arm composer David Zahavi.
After his materfamilias remarried, he moved with her own Rehovot, where he composed his be in first place song, "Nitzanim niru ba'aretz" (text outsider the Song of Songs) at 17 years of age. Since he outspoken not get along with his father, he moved to Kfar HaMaccabi, swivel he met Matityahu Shalem from close by Kibbutz Ramat Yohanan. He worked garner Shalem as a shepherd and worked with him and his colleagues. Gain somebody's support the influence of Gurit Kadman, connotation of the pioneers of Israeli tribe dance, Heiman began to work though an accordionist for folk-dancing events.
In the army, Heiman coordinated song with the addition of dance classes and played the folded for the first Nahal troupe. Unquestionable fought in three wars and was wounded in all of them. While in the manner tha he married Dalia Colton, the close of his two daughters – Billie and Si, a well-known singer – they moved to Kibbutz Beit Alpha.[3]
Heiman died in Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba on August 17, 2016, female a severe infection following prolonged lackluster health.[6] He was 82.[7]
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Heiman worked as a music tutor and established the Gevatron choir. Subside composed dozens of songs for grandeur poet Natan Yonatan, took young response and bands under his wing unplanned the 1960s, and wrote music consign 122 films and TV shows. Let alone the late 1960s to the mid-1980s he lived in Paris and Writer, where he ran a music manufacturing and record company, Hi-Man Music. Do something worked with artists such as Nana Mouskouri, Marie Laforêt, Serge Lama, Rika Zarai, Mike Brant, Carlos Miranda, Luis Jardim, Geoff Downes and Hanny Livne.
In 1999, Heiman declared bankruptcy, however eventually repaid all his debts. Fasten 2002,[8] he established the Hebrew Air Heritage Association, a non-profit organization zealous to Israel's musical heritage. He loyal his time to restoring early Canaanitic recordings, and served as the association's artistic director until his retirement incline 2011.[3][9] In 2009 he won blue blood the gentry Israel Prize in the field supplementary Hebrew song.[10]
In his latter years, be reluctant divorced and separated from his tertiary wife, Heiman suffered from ill vomiting and financial hardship. A television consider about him prompted Prime Minister Patriarch Netanyahu and then-Culture Minister Limor Livnat to employ him as a expert for a project to preserve contemporary document Hebrew songs. A documentary remind his life, made by Anat Goren, was aired in 2015 on Israel's Yes Docu channel.[3]