Today’s
Enlightening Entertainment
will be presented
in Hebrew and English,
with subtitles in Arabic,
Aulacese (Vietnamese),
Chinese, English,
French, German,
Hebrew, Indonesian,
Italian, Japanese,
Korean, Malay,
Mongolian, Persian,
Portuguese, Russian,
Spanish and Thai.
A man is a human being
And time is a time out
Building his world,
Blossoming in his garden
For over 30 years,
Mr. David Broza
has enthralled fans
worldwide with
his one-of-a-kind music,
a fusion of blues,
folk, flamenco, and
traditional Israeli sounds.
He has been sharing
his God-given talents
in sold-out shows
worldwide, collaborated
with some of the world’s
greatest musicians, and
set to music the lyrics
of the finest poets.
Born and raised in Israel,
David Broza has also
spent different periods
of his life living in Spain,
the United Kingdom,
and the United States,
and thus has the ability
to express himself
in three languages:
Hebrew, Spanish,
and English.
By the age of 21,
Mr. David Broza had
a large fan base in
his home country of Israel.
Since then, he has risen
to international stardom.
Media praise for
this multi-platinum artist
is always glowing.
The New York Post
in the US declared,
“To see Broza in concert
is to be mesmerized,”
while The New York
Times asserted, “The
richness of his language,
the imagery and
(his) overall meaning
stand uncompromised.”
We came here under the sky
Two Like a pair of eyes
I love my music,
I love performing.
It's obviously,
there's a spirit
that is guiding me.
There is a holiness to it,
it's something that is
like I connect with places
that are very deep and
very high, thanks to
the music and the poems.
I'm a spirit.
So needless to say
I connect with people
in their spirits.
His popularity had soared
with his best-selling
quadruple platinum album,
“The Woman
by My Side.”
In 2002, David Broza
won a Spanish ATV
Award for Best Musical
Score for the song
“Padre Coraje”
(Father Courage).
In 2009, he received the
Royal Medal of Honor
from His Majesty King
Juan Carlos of Spain
for his dedication to
Israeli-Spanish relations
through music and
promotion of tolerance.
In 2008, the song
performed by Mr. Broza,
“The Secret Life of
Small Things,”
was nominated for the
prestigious Goya Award,
Spain’s main
national film honor.
Song title:
The Secret Life
of the Small Things
Singer: David Broza
To each beacon its light
To each voice its name
There is no lesser light
There is no lesser voice
To each sun its shine
And in every shadow,
wall to rest
At last to rest
It has reasons
deep and mysterious
The secret life
of the little things
His unique style has been
shaped by Israeli singer
songwriters, Spanish
flamenco players, and
famous American
folk musicians like
Simon and Garfunkel
and Bob Dylan.
The artist, however,
attributes most of
his musical success
to his family.
My mother was
Israel’s folk singer,
first folk singer
with a guitar,
so needless to say
she already brought it
into the house.
Both my parents
were music lovers.
Music was always
part of our
background and home.
We always sang together,
my mother, father, sister
and I, we all did
harmonies and loved to
spend time singing, and
listening to each other.
I think
that's the main influence
on the way I take music.
I take it very, very much
as a way of life.
I'm very grateful
and thankful
to the background
that I came from.
I think it's the biggest
source of inspiration
and light in my life.
In a beautiful
collaboration, Mr. Broza
and Palestinian composer
Mr. Said Murad created
a sweetly sorrowful yet
hopeful peace song titled
“Belibi” (In My Heart).
About eight years ago,
I suggested
we write a song together.
Just how unlikely that an
Israeli and a Palestinian
would write actually
a song together...
So we wrote this beautiful
song, it’s called “Belibi”
(In My Heart) and
it’s a really an ode
to our land,
and to our countries.
We created a beautiful
harmonious track with it,
which was something
of a miracle.
“Belibi” (In My Heart)
was performed for
a documentary produced
by “Search for
Common Ground” by
the Israeli artist himself
with singer
Mr. Wissam Murad
from the Palestinian
music group Sabreen,
along with two children’s
choirs, one Israeli and
the other Palestinian.
The special song
was also performed
in a concert at the ancient
Israeli king’s palace
with Palestinian singer
Ebrahim Eid and
the Neve Shalom/
Wahat al-Salam
Israeli-Palestinian
School Choir.
In my heart In my body
In my spirit In my bosom
Our land
You are our blood
You are our soul
You are our lives
In my heart In my body
In my spirit In my bosom
Our land
You are in my blood
You are in my soul
You are with me
One of David’s
unique trademarks is
putting poetry to music,
as in his most recent
musical endeavor called
“Night Dawn.”
All the lyrics on the album
are actually poems
by the American poet
Townes Van Zandt.
Okay, this is called
“Night Dawn.”
The winds of change
turned
Strong and strange
I leave my childhood
behind
Till I spy the light of day
Dreaming of treasures
to find
If I had a silver dollar
Spend it on the one I love
If it’s stuck
in a lonesome holler
I wish it
on the mourning dove
That’s what’s so beautiful
about connecting
with poetry.
And I think that
even the symbolic title,
“Night Dawn,” which is
the start of a new day,
it’s like the awakening,
the enlightenment.
So all these things
are very beautiful.
I use music as my main
source of communication,
because I’ve chosen
many years ago to
write music and poetry.
So when I compose
poems by Israeli poets, or
poems by American poets,
poems by Spanish poets,
I am thankful
to the music that
I can put together,
to the authentic Spanish
and authentic
American poetry.
I can communicate
directly with an American
audience, even though
my mother tongue
is Hebrew.
I’m not putting an act on.
I am playing myself
and I’m very lucky
I’m an artist.
I can definitely
get to places which
my imagination and my
energy allow me to get to.
I don’t study it, I live it.
I assimilate,
I come to the Midwest,
I go to the Deep South,
I spent time there.
I don’t come to study it.
I come to absorb it.
So my latest proof of that
is my collaboration
on Townes Van Zandt’s
“Unpublished Poetry,”
which is really what
I believe is being the,
the highlight of my quest
here in the United Stated
to connect
through something
so local, so American
as Townes Zandt’s
lyrics & poetry.
I’ve worked
on American albums,
Spanish albums, Israeli.
These are all my fruits
of my vision and
my inspiration and
I enjoy all of them.
I just love performing
to myself, to my friends,
to my audiences.
We came here
under the sky
Two
Like a pair of eyes
We have got time
under the sky
In the meantime
We are still here
You and me
You and me
You and me
Through his broad
life experiences, Mr.
David Broza has come to
deeply understand
the importance of respect
and tolerance and thus
has devoted himself
to many humanitarian
projects, including
with the United Nations
Children’s Fund
(UNICEF).
Well my main two,
let’s say, fields of interest,
that I enjoy committing
myself and my time to –
one is,
a very important one, is
the developing of
conflicts resolution
programs,
educational programs
for young people
and for older people.
It’s a perfect place
to build, and to create
these programs where,
the hurting souls can
meet and perhaps try to
utilize these grounds to
create a better future
and overcome their pain.
And I support many,
many organizations that
deal with that in Israel.
And of course,
my work with
my Palestinian partners,
in part is my own way of
practicing it, in real time,
and not just supporting it.
And the other thing is
my concerns
for the handicapped.
As a matter of fact,
one of my last projects is
working with a theater
called Nalaga'at,
which is a center
for the deaf and blind.
These are
super important.
Whether
through volunteer work
or benefit concerts,
Mr. Broza commits
much of his extra time
in service
for a better society.
His hit song,
“Yihyeh Tov”
(Things Will Be Better),
became the anthem of the
“Peace Now” movement.
It’s a peace song and it’s
a song that was inspired
by the visit of Egypt’s
President Anwar El Sadat
(in) 1977 to Israel.
And my friend and
partner soul mate,
Yonatan Geffen,
a great Israeli poet,
wrote the words
and asked me
to write the music.
And that was the first song
and it’s still one of
my most important songs
in my career.
While absorbing other
cultures of the world,
Mr. Broza remains
an ambassador for
his beautiful homeland,
Israel, and her culture.
What's unique
about Israeli culture
is the diversity.
There’s 120 or more
cultures all migrated
to one place, you know
in the Middle East,
it's Israel.
And they're all Jewish,
but they're all from the
Falashas, and Ethiopia,
to the Jews from India,
to Jews from Morocco,
to Jews from Poland,
to France,
from US, from all over.
Even from Chicago,
you know?
And they all bring
their own traditional
musicality, each have
their own blues.
And when we get
a band together they will
naturally all come from
different corners
of the world, and
they make music together.
And that's something
that's very unique.
It's very, very unique,
it's very, very special.
And so the outcome is,
after many years of
becoming our own thing,
the language
is progressing,
the culture's taking shape,
then it becomes
something evidently
just like a flower out there,
on the bloom,
very different, shining,
really shining.
We applaud
your musical brilliance
and harmonious ideals,
superstar from Israel
Mr. David Broza.
May your message
of peace resound
throughout the world, as
your music moves hearts
toward greater love
and understanding.
You are the salt of the sea
The light and the truth
The salt and the sea
That is you
The truth and the light
Awake or dreaming
In my eyes, in my feelings
You are my love
The truth and the light
Happy or sad
In my eyes
In my feelings
You are my love
The truth and the light
Happy or sad
In my eyes
In my feelings
You are my love
Our world
In my body In my soul
In my bosom
Our land
You are in my blood
In my soul
You are with me
The truth and the light
Awake or dreaming
In my eyes, in my feelings
You are my love
You are my love
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Mr. David Broza’s
music is available at
www.DavidBroza.net
and
Amazon.com