02.07.2016

Ofer Golany was born in Jerusalem to an Iraqi father and a Polish mother

At 4 his family moved to a kibbutz and at 9 to America's university towns. Ofer started guitar at 12 with Jewish prophets Dylan Simon and Cohen. At 16 he returned to Israel university and 4 years in the army...realized he'd been used....off to India Thailand Nepal and back to teach in the Lifta highschool.Studied acting... avoided the military  ...taught at the Nisui school....studied music therapy in Boston....recorded Postcards from San Francisco and Sometimes He Sings Sometimes He Just Plays Guitar after 7 summers on the streets of Europe collecting a 360 song repertoire married a Dutch princess and recorded Alive and Living in Holland. While she studied international law Ofer performed and recorded  jazz and klezmer with saxophonist Chris Corstens and Makko Coster as trio WHAT?!?. In 1994 he returned to Jerusalem-center holy of hallelujas - the rebuilt Jerusalem opposite the Mamila pool. Since 2000 Ofer records a CD every year as JERUSALEMAN, advising why & how to avoid the military and working as a studio-musician.  He leads AKHOTKHA, a political/spiritual activist cabaret. With Nazereth Christian Arabs Nabil Abu-Nicola and Samia Ashkar as trio Musicians4Peace tours Europe yearly and as Conspiracy of Love with German Cellist Anglika Wagener or Berlin-Jerusalem spiritual cabaret with Yael Schueler he is once (or twice) a year in Germany. Always returning to Jerusalem where he plays Birman, The Blue Hole, Mike's Place, Salon Shabazi, Que Pasa, Pinkas Hakatan, Armadil, Beit Avichai, Blaze, Basement theater and Cafe Agronski.

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