Yoav
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The road towards this striking album began in Cape Town in the late 1980s, when a nine-year-old boy began sneaking to his neighbour’s house to listen to Wham! and OMD. At Yoav’s house, such “light music” was banned, on the insistence of his father, a Jewish architect who lived through World War II in his native Romania, before moving to Israel (where Yoav was born) and then relocating to South Africa with Yoav’s opera singer mother. Only classical and opera would waft through their home.
That only made the pull of modern music stronger for little Yoav. “From the moment I started listening to those cheesy songs at my neighbour’s house, I knew I’d be a musician. I can’t describe the rush it gave me. The fact that music was an illicit pleasure actually made it the most exciting thing in the world for me.”
By the time he was 12, Yoav was waiting until his parents had gone to bed before quietly practicing on the battered guitar his elder brother had given him. “I’d had to play instruments that I hated since I was four, things like the piano and the cello,” he says. “I guess the guitar was my way of rebelling.”
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