Chaim Shemesh is an Israeli music producer and manager.
Shemesh was born in São Paulo

São Paulo

São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...

, Brazil

Brazil

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. He started his way in the music business as a lighting and sound engineer. After three years of studying sound in New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

, Shemesh started working as Yair Nitzani

Yair Nitzani

-Biography:Yair Nitzani was born in Beersheba in 1958. After serving in the Israel Defense Forces as a broadcaster on Galei Zahal in the 1980s, he joined the rock group T-Slam as a keyboardist and vocalist...

's personal assistant. Nitzani was CEO of record company Hed Artzi

Hed Artzi

Hed Arzi Music , is an Israeli music company that is involved with producing music, importing albums from abroad, and distributing Israeli and international music...

 (one of the "big three" in Israel) at the time. Through his work in Hed Artzi

Hed Artzi

Hed Arzi Music , is an Israeli music company that is involved with producing music, importing albums from abroad, and distributing Israeli and international music...

, Shemesh produced some of the most influential records created in the Israeli music business.
In 1997 Mr. Shemesh started a record company called Sunshine Records (the meaning of the word Shemesh in Hebrew is sun) which was active up until 2001 and produced albums for Assaf Amdursky

Assaf Amdursky

-Music career:Amdursky began his career in Israel with the band "Taarovet Escot", and together they released one album in 1991. In 1994, he wrote and composed most of the songs in his first solo album, titled "Assaf Amdusrky", which was released in 1994. In it he played guitar, keyboards,...

, Yahli Sobol and more. In 2002 Shemesh joined the record company NMC

NMC

NMC may refer to:* NMC Records, an Israeli record label and music company.* NMC Recordings, a record label and music company in the United Kingdom* National Meteorological Center, now the National Centers for Environmental Prediction...

 (also one of the "big three") where he managed the Hebrew music department.
Some of Shemesh's scoutings were: HaYehudim

HaYehudim

HaYehudim is an Israeli hard rock band, formed in 1992 by married couple Tom Petrover and Orit Shachaf, who share guitar playing and vocal duties. The band has achieved tremendous success in Israel despite commercial disregard in its first years, and has sold over 200,000 albums in Israel.The band...

, Aviv Geffen

Aviv Geffen

Aviv Geffen is an Israeli rock musician, singer, songwriter, producer, keyboardist and guitarist. He is the son of writer and poet Yehonatan Geffen and Nurit Makover, brother of actress Shira Geffen, and an alumnus of Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music.Geffen was and is extremely popular...

, Evyatar Banai, Taarovet Escot, Efrat Gosh

Efrat Gosh

-Bio:Gosh was born in 1983 and raised as a middle child with a younger and an older brother in Herzliya, Israel. She attended the music department at Alon high school in Ramat Hasharon. She continued her education at the Rimon school of music, focusing on Jazz...

 and Yoni Bloch

Yoni Bloch

Yoni Bloch is an Israeli musician, song writer, composer, rock singer and hi-tech entrepreneur.- Early life :Bloch grew up in Beer Sheva and at the age of 17 moved with his family to Lehavim...

.

External links

• Chaim Shemesh - Official Website