Idan Raichel is this Monday Morning Hottie, an Israeli singer-songwriter and a musician, widely acclaimed for his Idan Raichel Project (Hebrew: הפרוייקט של עידן רייכל), distinctive for its fusion of electronics, traditional Hebrew texts, Middle Eastern and Ethiopian music. Ladies, we are in love with this one!
Starting his career off in the Israeli military Idan then went on to be a counselor at a boarding school for troubled youth. From there he travelled with Save a Child’s Heart to Rwanda and Ethiopia. During this time he would listen to Ethiopian cassettes and began to frequent Ethiopian bars and clubs for the music.
At the same time, Raichel had become a successful backup musician and recording session player for some of Israel’s most popular singers. After a few years of this he decided it was time to pursue a project that reflected his musical ideals, and began working on a demo. Thank goodness for that!
Most of the Israeli labels considered his work too “ethnic” and too outside of the norms of the formulaic Israeli pop scene to have any hope of success but one A&R man, Gadi Gidor at Helicon Records, recognized the potential of Idan’s work and signed him up for an album that became an immediate hit and the rest is history.
Raichel’s latest album named “Ben Kirot Beyti” was released on November 20, 2008. The album is a collaboration with many world musicians, and has so far been certified platinum, with over 4,000,000 copies sold.
Idan-the creator, the composer, the poet. We hope you enjoy his work as much as we do.




















