Din Din Aviv
| Din Din Aviv | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Dina Aviv |
| Born | October 9, 1974 |
| Origin | Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Genres |
World music Pop |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, musician |
| Instruments | Percussionist |
| Years active | 1998–present |
| Labels | Hed Artzi/Labeleh |
| Website | Official website |
Din Din Aviv (Hebrew: דין דין אביב, born 9 October 1974 as Dina Aviv) is an Israeli pop and folk singer. After performing with Gaya and with the Idan Raichel Project, she released her debut album, Sodotay (My Secrets) in 2006.
Dina (Din Din) 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 Tabla drum 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 (Hebrew: תוף הלב של דין דין, "Din Din's Heart Drum"), introduced many Israeli families to the world of rhythm. She presents a world music program with her mother, Aliza Aviv, in which they both sing in Turkish, Kurdish, Greek, Bulgarian, Georgian, Persian and Hebrew. She is a chosen artist of the Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation (IcExcellence), which aims to support artistic talent in Israel.
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