Din Din Aviv is an Israeli pop and folk singer. After performing with Gaya and with the Idan Raichel Project, she released her debut album, Sodotay in 2006.
Biography
Dina Aviv was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. Her parents are both artists; her mother, Aliza Aviv, is a performing singer in a wide range of styles, her father was a jazz musician, and as a child she recorded an album, Alidin with her mother and accompanied her father when he performed. Aviv is a graduate of Alliance High School and served in the Israeli army as the solo singer for the Air Force Entertainment Group. She studied dance and ballet at the Israel School of Ballet and with Dorit Gasner, African dance with Master Aisha Diallo, Indian song and Tabladrum playing in India, African drumming with Uri Nave, congas with master Avi Zarfati, and piano and two years of drum and voice studies at the Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music. She gave "Rhythm in Dance" workshops at Seminar Hakibbutzim and her ular children's video, Tof HaLev Shel Din Din, introduced many Israeli families to the world of rhythm. She presented a world music program with her mother, Aliza Aviv, in which they both sing in Turkish, Kurdish, Greek, Bulgarian, Georgian, Persian and Hebrew. She was a chosen artist of the Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation, which aims to support artistic talent in Israel.
Music career
As an adult, Aviv joined Gaya, a leading Israeli band, who had a hit song, Shir La'Ahava , which received the Discovery of the Year Award and has become an unofficial second national anthem for many Israelis. She then joined the Idan Raichel Project, and was the lead singer on the hit song Im Telech. After performing with Gaya and the Idan Raichel Project, she released a solo album, Sodotay in spring 2006, for which she received the "Discovery of the Year" award from ACUM and a Gold Album award in April 2007. The three songs from the album released as singles and Sodotay all reached the top three of the charts. The single, Sodotay, was nominated for Song of the Year at the annual Israeli Music Channel Awards in March 2007. Aviv received the Best Artist in Music award from the Israel Ministry of Culture, the nation's highest cultural award, in 2007, and embarked on her first US tour in March 2008, performing in Tulsa, New York City, Sarasota, Fort Lauderdale and Boca Raton. Her second album, Hofshia Ben Olamot'', was released in 2008.
