Haim Moshe

Haim Moshe (Hebrew: חיים משה, Arabic: حاييم موشيه, sometimes Chaim Moshe on recordings),

born 20 September 1955 is an Israeli singer whose musical style has crossed over from Yemenite and Mediterranean "ethnic" music to include mainstream Israeli and western pop elements. He has helped Mizrahi music achieve wide popularity

both in Israel

and in Arab countries. Haim Moshe was born in 1955 in Ramat HaSharon, Israel. His parents were Yemenite Jews who immigrated to Israel after World War II. As a child he learned to sing not only Israeli and Jewish religious music in the synagogue, but also Greek, Turkish, and Arabic songs, which he performed for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs. As a young man, Moshe worked in a print shop, and he served in the Israeli military in the mid-1970s.