Just Before”Zohar Argov: End sad and predictable” A series of 3 Episodes created by Dani Dothan and Dalia welcome, Ascending Channel 8 (Starting -6.5, 21:00), Get historical interview with Zohar Argov did two days after winning a “the flower in my garden” (“Lhiton”, 6.5.1982). Quoted interview series (Amos Tamam's voice) Length and breadth.
Zohar Argov. (Photography :Moshe Shai)
Israeli singer Celebration (Mizrahi music festival) Held at the end of Passover the International Convention Center, And aired live,
Even those who saw it for the first time, Can not deny thatZohar Argov He's a great singer., Controls all tricks of the trade. His voice, Thank God, And it goes without any difficulties Screen. One can argue all day whether this festival commemorates social gaps or reduce them, But only the right can boycotted singers come out to the world, There is justification for this event.
Zohar Argov, Until last festival, There was no more than a curiosity that could be ignored. The music was regarded by the state as junk patrons of culture in every way, And built his career out of the media spotlight, Of beyond. For this reason, few people know that Argov sold last year 200 Thousand (!!!) Cassette – Success on an international scale, When it comes to the Israeli market.
Anyone who bought his caste living and breathing in Israel as equal citizens. Were it not for the arrogant attitude of radio and television, Zohar's fate might have been completely different, And the entire community in this country would feel less deprived. When you love a particular song, You deserve to hear it on the radio, And the media may be the property of some “Gourmet” Determine what is important and what is trivial. Argov himself received a golden opportunity to change 180 degrees all his social status;, But equally likely to fall back into the market caste and remain sequestered in the media.
Who is right input signals last election, Know that from the volcano called the State of Israel bubbling lava that threatens to erupt at any time. “And when tortured, Multiply and break out”. Through singers like Argov possible, Maybe, Learn how to built any communications system in the country, Struggling with all her might to suppress the surge cultural Fountainhead flowing into the reservoir Israeli culture and demands his due share.
I Malle”Jeff
I met with Zaher Melchett Street rented apartment, Old Tel Aviv Central, Stronghold of the Veterans community. Since the festival is not able to sleep much. His career took off at once the sky, He finds it difficult to digest the fact that has become the focus of the interest overnight journalists, Until yesterday dismissive when he heard his name.
Argov (26), Cancer, His features sharpened and slightly notched as indicative of periods of suffering and distress he had undergone since childhood. Zohar – friendly, hearty, Very direct, Do not try to hide the fact that it was the victim of cultural discrimination. He knows exactly where he came from. He did not intend to raise the banner of the Eastern revolution, But not forgetting all the”Who tried to blow it sticks with wheels”.
How does it feel those considered until a few days to”Cassette singer”, Suddenly all the spotlight referred to?
“I feel great, Such life fun. Two years ago I plan Calendar Events’ TV now it's my dream to win the Eastern Festival. And here it comes. I started Malle”Jeff. I started as a singer give him a song. I always knew that I sing very well, Not ashamed to say all sorts of events I want to sing. It called for me to start Malle”Jeff. What it does not start Malle”Jeff? When you take someone discovered it suddenly, Once the troupe sings, What 'Slam’ such a, and… Straight headlines.
“I started. I made a nice move record, I made another record, We came Festival took place Sunday. I gambled because I knew I was good, But I was afraid because I was the first time the festival. There were singers who appeared on the screen, And I had the feeling that the eye of the people will turn on those they know.
“Who made me, This crowd went and bought my cassettes central station. This crowd did not hear me on the radio, It is people who heard me with the neighbor, Asking her: Where did you get the tape? That way become well known. So when I got the 12 Points in Tiberias and Ramat Eliahu, I knew that my audience. Even the International Convention Center can take 12 Points, But there was the attraction of children with Abner Gadassi.
“I lived underground for not making me, But I was appearing nightly and before blowing the audience halls. Now I have some serious thinking in terms of music, Save more on its level. I was the processor of my first two records, So they went that way of 'Feast', As they call it. Today I took Nancy Brandes, I also arranged the song festival, And brought him 12 New songs for processing.
“Your question, How I feel – No clouds. I'm real. I ate too much alive. I feel bad seven years are over and we started seven good years, But I behave the same. I sometimes escapes my little corner, Why do I want a bit of peace, But believe me, My head is not in the clouds”.
A real imitation
Israeli cultural establishment ignored you completely. Have suffered in the past? You wanted to cross?
“I wanted to break this wall. I have an audience, and he 70% The country's population – Iraqis, Moroccans, Spanish, Yemenis, Awards. The media do not live this music. We grew up on Rabbi Shalom Shabzi, They grew Bialik and Alterman on, and this, In their opinion, Conflict. Sits today on the radio editor, Taking Zohar Argov and examines what it. He does not understand that there is more than half of the population who grew up on this music! This is not the day I came and I invented something new: Just brought things from dad, My childhood.
“The editor of the radio return, do not get it. He grew up on Bialik and Wagner.. They asked me who Wagner was once.. I told: I haven't seen him., But I've heard of him.. The same thing They'il ask on the radio., Who is Zohar Argov, And he's going to say: Yes, I heard, but I didn't see him.. There's a radio two hours from two., for example. So the editor's name is Chava Alberstein., David Broza, Churchill, Shalom Hanoch. If he brings Zohar argov between the songs, He thinks he's creating a conflict., And he doesn't realize it's not a bad contrast., Because I also sing Hebrew, But I'm singing to a certain audience, With Ruffles in the sound. I don't have any electric guitars and synthesizers..
“The editor goes more for Imitation America.. A real imitation. He's going for the funk., On The Beatles, Tina Charles, Jay Jay Kay, But first of all we! We live in the Middle East, We sing Mediterranean music! What do you think I grew up? What I heard ten years ago? Alisa Azikri, Aris San, Jo Amar, Yoram Gaon with Rosa Rosa; But today the young generation arose, No longer Aris San and stuff, so what are we doing? Make a band, Click, glance, But all their music does not belong here. All imitation. Why not sing the we? What we understood? Most editors Ashkenazi. And I, I have nothing against the Ashkenazim. It's all past elections, With this heavy word, 'Tz'htz'him', And I know Dudu Topaz, Believe me, Store Man.
“I do not write songs, And composer, I'm just a singer who has a beautiful voice and sing. If eyful Lee Bid 'Jewish mother', I sing it better than Original. I am a singer, I sing music I ground her childhood. I was the Minister of books of Shabzi, And if it was a fake, Would stick – boom! That's how I learned to sing. This music buried me here (Pointing to the stomach), Deep inside”.
But the radio also broadcasts Middle Eastern music.
“Look, The media can not ignore us till the end. So they said to them all the time Saturday night 'Mediterranean Love', Become a ghetto (Write "Ghetto", As I told you). Yemenite singers play ten one stroke, So to speak, and as candy, Then they say: They have an hour, What they cry? Enough for them! And I'm not ready. This slap in the face! I want to be scattered all singers, Eleven AM, One in four after noon, One next week. Who Needs Love Mediterranean '? you tell me, who needs?! In connection with the Eastern Festival, No words, Well done! But during the year, The audience wants to hear me, Have to wait for Saturday, Into Music of Black '! This is a badge of shame for all of us!”.
No singer cassettes
You caught establishment of Label “Cassette singer”, As a singer of Garbage. Would you like to take that label off and change your direction?, Or do you want to continue with the same style?
“Who's to decide I'm a cassette singer?? It's the ones who didn't make me. – The radio and the TV! How I went out on the market? I've invested my first record., Eleanor, And people came out of the houses and bought the record and the tape.. In Tiberias, In Yeruham, In the Western Galilee, Where you want!
“I also tried to walk through the system. Two years before Eleanor.’ I recorded a disk of music that's going on today., Style-click, Slam, All this. I was trying to get on the radio wave.. I can sing a "a"-a-better-than-you-Tisilim song.. With my throat, I can do what I want.. I took Gary Eckstein and all the cypress troupe., I took Yair Shragai to make arrangements for me., And I recorded one shake and a slow one.. A dream of a record. Sent 30 Floppy disks for all networks. They played it once in a "needle in a record pile"., And they didn't even put it in a corner for your teeth.! There's no one to talk to.!
“So I kept working as a piano-drinking singer.. I saw this crowd coming.. What they like, What they're up to., Why do they come to hear me?. I've learned that they love the songs that bring them to the truth in life.. I realized there was a separation between the radio and the street.. And then I knew what I was going for.. What I'm recording. I made a list., And it went. No radio., Without anything, And people bought the caste.
“Suddenly, One Day, Yoel Esteron phone arrives, TV reporter. Told me he wanted to make me Log Contents. I told him: Tfadal, come. Then I asked Joel: How did you get me? And Joel told me a funny story: When his friend was getting married, Joel had to decline the invitation, No time, Or something like that. Boyfriend did not give, And was surprised how Joel can not come to the wedding which appears Zohar Argov. So Joel asked him: Who's general Zohar Argov? Never heard of animals. His friend took him to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market and showed him who it Zohar Argov, How do people buy vegetables and Mad My songs, Then he decided to make me a. More, Iani, As a social phenomenon”.
Today, After all the press eaten alive, Would you be willing to adopt some good things method, Develop and get out once and for all in the region of Central Station?
“I never thought for a moment that I am a singer cassettes. Editor-in radio do not think what people like, What they really want to hear. We live in the same country, Sing the same music, I tend more to my childhood, to my mother, My sources. I Yemeni pure. Radio editors think I sing Arabic music or Msrit or Khomeini's funeral”.
“My parents brought to Israel, You know what? I tell you the truth: Did not bring them because they are Jews. Bring them as cheap labor, Drawers of water and hewers of wood! That's how I see it after all we put legs. And the editor of Radio did not get my music from Daddy. We did not hear a concert in our lives. Our concert was tin. So start playing, Let them hear themselves. Threw them here all the places, And they built the country. And we must not forget Oriental happy with. They passed through the ghetto and made them Soaps”.
Do you feel now changing attitude to you from radio and television?
“As you call me after the festival, I thought they'd call me from happy hour, too.. But when you want to show up at a good hour, You're blocking your way., And instead bring you singers who sing imitations. One day America will never help us again., And we're going down to Cantas.! We've been through the tortilla.! We worked in Bethesda.! My dad swept blocks to bring bread home.! We sang in a house with sheets and not synthesizers.. So our music is not Israeli.? What is she, Labour force? Country eating therein’ Written in the sources. That's our story., And believe me, All those who don't play me on the radio, They kill themselves with their own hands.!”.
To be a person
“Tell, Why do not you come that M'sah good '?”, Greeted the Zohar Argov two days after winning a “the flower in my garden”. “that” M”good hour” Manny was the Glory. I was the only reporter in”Lhiton”, Driving a taxi service to Jerusalem to survey the eastern song festival model 1982, Held in the end of Passover and was also broadcast live to the nation from Jerusalem.
It was the first time I saw the Zohar still in awe. Until that moment it was for me Mizrahi singer pipe trousers. I still remember how to cook reserves would increase the volume of “Eleanor”, of “This black singer”, Not ashamed steal Sasha's family name, Revered composer Ali.
But after seeing the Zohar Argov costs, Tall and proud on the podium ICC, And performs “the flower in my garden”, All the walls of enmity and hostility collapsed completely instinctive. I must interview the editor of the”This eastern singer”, If only because it won first place in the Eastern Song Festival (Hiding behind the name laundered “Israeli singer Celebration”).
Zohar was living in a rented apartment in Tel Aviv in Melchett Street, A stone's throw rented apartment where I lived on the street Shprintsak. so close. so far. I was sure I would stand in line behind a sea of journalists, About our borders apartment. But to my amazement I was the only journalist who came to interview him in. To him I was a journalist “The typical Ashkenazi”, All life would die to meet and enter in the mother of his mother.
I remember a huge picture in Argov's living room., Giant Hookah Mammal. I remember my age, son., That there was a son. 9, Runs in the apartment and doesn't stop hugging dad.. There was also a tall girl and a Jane named victory., That viewed itself as”Company of Zohar”. I have no idea if there was a girlfriend or not., But during the entire interview, the radio was successfully successful in the flood of phones that didn't cease ringing.. The alleged repeat: “He's got a very important interview now.”.
In the middle of the interview suddenly appeared Asher Reuveni, Emregwe of Argov, That you smiled at me a particularly radiant smile and a spark in his eyes: “I don't know if you're aware of that., But you are the first journalist to be interviewed by Zohar Argov.. “Walla???”, “Walla!!!”.
The interview was really strong.. Very strong. Argov freed his swords with his tongue and gave me a totally knockout.. I came to him with a sea of stigmas., Without even knowing what I'm going to fall into., And when I got out of the interview with him, I started an internal shredding process of an entire world., Who saw the Zohar and a cronies “Cultural toxin”.
In late August 1997 I got a call from my friend, Shosh Gabai., Who asked me to jump into Ron's apartment as a flute. “We'il Talk When you get”. When I entered the room of a flute, He drew me a photo of the interview with Zohar Argov M”To b”Lhiton” Seventh”To.
what is the deal? I wondered. “I do liquorice Channel documentary series 2 ('sea of tears'), Eastern music history”, Said Kahlili, “We went through all the press kit Zohar, You would not believe, But the interview you did with it is not just only made him, It also reveals the fact that, unlike the stigma addict, Zohar was a socio-political concept solid, Broad and deep”.
Then this story continues to haunt me, And set me “Career” Unpredictable as”Argobolog” expert. Now, 35 Years after, Comes the turn of the interview”historitic” Stay supplement “Ma'ariv”, Zion 30 Year of death “the king”. Wonder where else I get with this interview, And what a mistake I made I did not watch the tape, When he returned, more then once, The phrase: “All imitation”.