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Noa (Achinoam Nini)

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Achinoam Nini (Hebrew: אֲחִינוֹעַם נִינִי; Aẖinóʻam Nini; born June 23, 1969), also known by her professional name, Noa, is a leading Israeli international concert and recording artist

Born in Tel Aviv to a Jewish family of Yemenite descent, Noa lived in New York City from age 2. She attended SAR Academy primary school, and the Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein Upper School of Ramaz High School, and remained in New York until her return to Israel alone at the age of 17. After serving the mandatory two years in the Israeli Army in a military entertainment unit. Noa studied music at the Rimon School, where she met her long-time partner and collaborator Gil Dor.

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As a duo, their music styles are pop, rock, blues, R&B, country, country western, folk, Yemenite & Italian folk. Noa has recorded numerous songs in Italian, French, Spanish, Galician, English, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, Hindi, Yemenite Jewish and folk & Arabic pop songs as well as Jewish and Christian prayers translated into Hebrew and English.

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