Efrat Gosh
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Bio
Gosh was born in 1983 and raised as a middle child with a younger and an older brother in HerzliyaHerzliya
Herzliya is a city in the central coast of Israel, at the western part of the Tel Aviv District. It has a population of 87,000 residents. Named after Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism, Herzliya covers an area of 26 km²...
, Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
. She attended the music department at Alon high school in Ramat Hasharon
Ramat Hasharon
Ramat HaSharon is a city located on Israel's central coastal strip in the south of the Sharon region, bordering Tel Aviv to the south and Herzliya and Kibbutz Glil Yam to the north. It is part of the Tel Aviv District, within Gush Dan metropolitan area...
. She continued her education at the Rimon school of music, focusing on Jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
. Efrat became influenced by music of Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing...
, Edith Piaf
Édith Piaf
Édith Piaf , born Édith Giovanna Gassion, was a French singer and cultural icon who became widely regarded as France's greatest popular singer. Her singing reflected her life, with her specialty being ballads...
, Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana....
and Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker
Charles Parker, Jr. , famously called Bird or Yardbird, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer....
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Music career
Gosh's music career began when some friends asked her if she could record a demo with Yoni BlochYoni Bloch
Yoni Bloch is an Israeli musician, song writer, composer, rock singer and hi-tech entrepreneur.- Early life :Bloch grew up in Beer Sheva and at the age of 17 moved with his family to Lehavim...
whom had written it for Nurit Galron (a famous Israeli singer). She agreed and a week later was asked to sing backing vocals in Bloch’s shows.
The decision to join the show turned out to be an important one, as Bloch and Gosh looked to the audience and saw the head of the Hebrew Department of the major Israeli music label NMC
NMC Music
NMC Music is an Israeli record label. It was established in 1964 as a subsidiary company of CBS, and became independent in 1988.Among influential artist represented by NMC are:Mashina, Chava Alberstein, Ehud Banai and T-Slam.-External links:...
at the time, Chaim Shemesh
Chaim Shemesh
Chaim Shemesh is an Israeli music producer and manager.Shemesh was born in São Paulo, Brazil. He started his way in the music business as a lighting and sound engineer. After three years of studying sound in New York, Shemesh started working as Yair Nitzani's personal assistant...
, with whom Yoni Bloch signed at the time.
Shemesh, with a history of discovering and nourishing talented stars like Aviv Geffen
Aviv Geffen
Aviv Geffen is an Israeli rock musician, singer, songwriter, producer, keyboardist and guitarist. He is the son of writer and poet Yehonatan Geffen and Nurit Makover, brother of actress Shira Geffen, and an alumnus of Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music.Geffen was and is extremely popular...
, Eifo HaYeled, HaKhaverim Shel Natasha, HaYehudim, Eviyatar Banai and many more artists, was so impressed by the backing vocalist that he went on to sign a contract with her as well.
Hebrew Dub
During 2009 only, Gosh Voiced Zoe Drake in the Anime Series Dinosaur KingDinosaur King
is a card game from Sega that uses the same gameplay mechanics from Mushiking and uses super-powered dinosaurs instead of beetles. The game was revealed in JAMMA 2005 and is available in Japanese and English versions. A Nintendo DS version has also been released in North America.In the fall of...
, Voiced Foofa in Yo Gabba Gabba!
Yo Gabba Gabba!
Yo Gabba Gabba! is an American children's television show currently airing on the Nick Jr. cable network in the United States and the Nick Jr. networks in the United Kingdom & Ireland, Italy, France and Australia as well as Treehouse TV network in Canada and RTE2 on RTEjr see Raidió Teilifís...
and Also in Once Upon a Time... Planet Earth
Once Upon a Time... Planet Earth
Il était une fois... notre Terre is a French animated TV series. Directed by Albert Barillé. The series was initially broadcast since 22 December 2008 on France 3.-Episodes:#Planet guards#Climate I: Far North#Water in India#Water in Sahel...
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Discography
- 2005 Efrat Gosh «Efrat Gosh»
- 2007 The Forgiveness and me «Ha-slicha ve-ani»
- 2010 Ah ah ah love «Ah ah ah ahava»