Yael Kraus is an Israeli singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 from Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...

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Biography

Kraus studied traditional Bulgarian singing and classical modern music with avant-garde

Downtown music

Downtown music is a subdivision of American music, closely related to experimental music. The scene the term describes began in 1960, when Yoko Ono—one of the Fluxus artists, at that time still seven years away from meeting John Lennon—opened her loft at 112 Chambers Street to be used...

 virtuoso Fred Frith

Fred Frith

Fred Frith is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer and improvisor.Probably best known for his guitar work, Frith first came to attention as one of the founding members of the English avant-rock group Henry Cow. Frith was also a member of Art Bears, Massacre and Skeleton Crew...

. She's a frequent collaborator with Roy Yarkoni and 6 other musicians under the art rock

Art rock

Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1960s, with influences from art, avant-garde, and classical music. The first usage of the term, according to Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, was in 1968. Influenced by the work of The Beatles, most notably their Sgt...

 act Panic Ensemble performing for the Israel Festival

Israel Festival

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 and several European live shows. She collaborated with many Israeli musicians, such as 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,...

, 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...

, Ivri Lider

Ivri Lider

Ivri Lider is an Israeli pop rock singer-songwriter. He is one of the biggest-selling contemporary artists in Israeli music, and has won the Male Singer of the Year honor from major Israeli national and local radio stations since entering the Israeli music scene in the late 1990s...

 and Tzach Drori.

In 2008, she teamed with Noa Goldanski and Michael Frost to record and release Bussa (בוּסה) on NMC Music

NMC Music

NMC Music is an Israeli record label. It was established in 1964 as a subsidiary company of CBS, and became independent in 1988.Among influential artist represented by NMC are:Mashina, Chava Alberstein, Ehud Banai and T-Slam.-External links:...

, an album of bossa nova

Bossa nova

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 covers for popular Israeli songs. The same year she also performed the theme song in the TV series On the Fingertips (על קצות האצבעות‎). Her debut solo album Boutique was released in 2010. It was produced by Daniel Koren, New York City based composer and pianist, co-composed mainly with Ben Hendler and was mixed by Tamir Muskat

Tamir Muskat

Tamir Muskat is a musician/producer-engineer who was born and raised in Tel Aviv, Israel as son of a Romanian immigrant. As a teenager, he was already a prominent rock drummer and percussionist...

 of the Balkan Beat Box

Balkan Beat Box

Balkan Beat Box is an Israeli musical group founded by Tamir Muskat, Ori Kaplan of Firewater and Big Lazy, and Tomer Yosef . As a musical project they often cooperate with a host of other musicians both in the studio as well as live...

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Kraus' family comes from an artistic background of painters, writers and musicians; the popular singer and songwriter Shmulik Kraus

Shmulik Kraus

Shmulik Kraus is an Israeli actor and Pop-Rock singer and composer. Kraus published solo albums, as well as participating in Rock groups and actor groups . He participted in some movies .He composed many songs for other performers Shmulik Kraus (Hebrew: שמוליק קראוס, born in 1935) is an Israeli...

 (The High Windows

The High Windows

The High Windows was a 1960s Israeli pop group founded by Arik Einstein, Shmulik Kraus and Josie Katz.-History:Hahalonot HaGvohim trio was formed at the end of 1966. As composer and vocal arranger, Kraus was the group's moving spirit...

) is her uncle.

Discography

• Boutique (Jonathan Lipitz Music, 2010)
• Bussa (NMC Music, 2008)
• Panic Ensemble (Earsay Records, 2008)

External links

• Official Website http://www.yaelkraus.com
• Myspace Page http://www.myspace.com/yaelkraus
• Yael Kraus on Jonathan Lipitz http://jonathanlipitz.com/yael-kraus.html