Eran Tzur

Eran Zur (Hebrew: ערן צור‎‎; born 11 July 1965 in Kiryat Bialik) is an Israeli rock singer and songwriter and prose writer, who started his career in late 1980s. He wrote dozens of songs for himself as well as for other Israeli artists. He mostly plays bass guitar. One of the characteristics of his songs is strong and explicit accent on love and sexuality.

In high school Zur started playing rock songs with Eyal Schechter and Amir Ben-David, who later formed the band Avtipus in a band with the English name "Mother Brain Crazy", but it didn't record anything.

In 1986, after he graduated from the Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music, Zur formed the band Tatu (טאטו) with his school mates Yuval Messner, Uri Balak and Alona Daniel. The band released one album, Khatokh Tokhen (Cut Content). Daniel, who went on to become a successful solo singer, sang most of the songs on it. Zur was the singer on one of the songs Bekhatserot bakhoshekh (In the Yards in Darkness), which describes the thoughts of a rapist in first person. This song was censored and forbidden for broadcasting on Israeli radio. The band protested against it - in the video for the theme song the band members were shown cutting magnetic tape, and briefly showing the title of the censored song. The band broke up in 1989, though later it reunited several times for concerts.

After the break-up of Tatu, Zur started another band named Carmela Gross Wagner. The band included Uri Balak, who earlier played in Tatu, as well as Uri Frost and Avshalom Kaspi. Another Tatu band mate Yuval Messner acted as a cello player in several songs and co-wrote some of them - a partnership that continued throughout Zur's career. The band's first album was released in 1991, with most songs written by Zur, one song by Meir Ariel, and several songs by the poet and the gender researcher Amalia Ziv. The album did not sell well initially, although the song Tmuna impressionistit (מונה אימפרסיוניסטית, Impressionist Picture), performed with Corinne Allal, became a major radio hit.

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