Shlomi Bracha (; born March 21, 1962) is an Israeli musician and record producer, best known for being the guitarist and one of the songwriters in the Israeli

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band

Mashina Mashina () are an Israeli pop rock band which was active from 1983 to 1995, and then again from 2003 to the present. The band is considered by many to be Israel's most important and influential rock band. Their musical style took inspiration fro ...

Biography

Bracha was born on March 21, 1962, in Kiryat Shalom,

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, Israel. He met

Yuval Banay Yuval Banay (; born June 9, 1962) is an Israeli musician, best known as the lead singer of the influential Israeli pop rock band Mashina. Career Banay served in the Artillery Corps of the Israel Defense Forces during the 1982 Lebanon War. Whi ...

in 1980 while they were serving together in the

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, and they formed a band. They split up after their army service, and Bracha formed the group ''HaChazit Ha'amamit'' ("The National Front") with bassist Michael Benson. In 1984 Bracha teamed up again with Banay and with the drummer Iggy Dayan to form the band

. Their self-titled debut album was released in 1985. Later Avner Hodorov joined the band on keyboard and saxophone. In May 1995 the group disbanded after a series of four farewell shows. Bracha began co-writing with

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, and they released an album a few years later. He released a solo album, ''Chaplin Charlie'', in 2003, the same year that Mashina got back together and resumed recording and performing. Aside from his musical career, Shlomi Bracha served as a coach and mentor (alongside his teammate, Yuval Banay) on the television show

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in the second season.

Discography

* "''Ratz Al Ha'Ketza''" (Running on the Edge) with

(1998) * "''Chaplin Charlie''" (2003) * For Mashina's complete discography see

External links

*
Lyrics to Shlomi Bracha's songs
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