Ayala Ingedashet (; born August 21, 1978) is an Israeli singer, of

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origins.

Early years

Ingedashet was born in

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and lived in Israel from the age of two, when she arrived with her family.איילה אינגדשט: "לא רוצה לדבר על הפגנות"

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The family lived in Jerusalem for several years and then decided to settle in the coastal city of

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. When Ayala was young, her parents divorced, with the mother raising the family alone in a religious home, and the father moving to Kiryat Malachi.אמא ספרי לי / ''ילדי בית העץ'' ואילה אינגדשט

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At the age of 14, she joined a youth band in

. After enlisting in the

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to complete her mandatory service, she was part of a band in the

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becoming the first

forming part of a music ensemble in the

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Career

After being discharged from her military service, Ingedashet acted in a number of plays, such as "Little Tel Aviv" and "Fuenteovejuna", and also hosted on the "Briza" TV channel. Until 2006, Ingdashet did not record musical material of her own. However, Mooki and Piloni, members of the

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band, nurtured her musically, including participating in Mooki's performances and albums. Ingdashet began collaborating with the music producer Roy Edri and the Israeli record label Hed Arzi, which eventually resulted in her debut self-titled album, which was released in March 2007, becoming the first Ethiopian-born Israeli singer with a major-label deal. Her musical influences in the album included

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and

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, Jill Scott, and

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. That same year, Ingdashet participated in Momi Levy's album ''Yabou Ishi'', in which she sang with Levy the song ''Notzeh BaRuach'' ("Feather in the Wind"), a cover version of Rita's original song. Today, she is considered to be perhaps second only to Cabra Casay amongst the first Ethiopian Israeli singers to become mainstream singers, having had a successful album by a major label, as well as having performed the Israeli national anthem at the opening of the

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. She has also recorded some of the songs in the soundtracks of the different seasons of the teen series ' ("Children of the Tree House"), broadcast by

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. She has also participated in different editions of the Hullegeb Israeli-Ethiopian Art Festival.איילה אינגדשט בחזרות לפסטיבל האתיופי

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Ingedashet has also been part of the cast of the children's series Shalom Sesame. Twelve years later, after having married and given birth to three children, Ingedashet released her second album, ''BaSchuna MiMul'' (In the Neighborhood opposite); the first single extracted from it, is a song about her childhood as well as her mother's childhood in Ethiopia.

Family

She is the eldest of four sisters. Her sisters Mary Ingedashet and Malka Ingedashet are also singers but her sister Oshrat Ingedashet is an actress.

Albums

*''Ayala Ingedashet'' (2007) *''BaSchuna MiMul'' (2019)

References

External links

MySpace Profile

Short bio

On Ayala and her sisters
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