Jewish music winner: singer Yishai Lapidot

ACUM, the Association which retains the copyright, will hold the 55th year of the awards ceremony of ACUM artists, which became the prestigious event over the years and valued in the culture. The association does not need complex operations and long editing charts to know who the leaders are in various sectors cataloged by them, since they are connected to computers at the various radio stations broadcast.


The ceremony will take place in less than a month and winners will be awarded the Lifetime Achievement Awards, the achievements of the year, songwriter of the year, discovery of the year, the awards encourage creative advertising and other special awards. The prestigious award became an annual tradition and a milestone.

Author singer Yishai Lapidot is the winner of this year as "special achievement in Chasidic singer." Judges, Moshe Laufer and Mr. Chanoch Winderbaum, sitting on the determine committee defended the decision to award the prize to Lapidot with the following statement: "Yishai Lapidot was seen from his early days as a fanatic of Hasidic music.
Before composing the first melody he was very close to all artists and influential in this genre."

"Within a short time he turned from one standing near the Hasidic music after creating the most influential ones. Lapidot brought into Hasidic music new ideas, both in words and melodies that captured the sympathy of the audience, and thus became the pioneer into new and contemporary. The same flow of music suctioned from the authentic old music, but simultaneously exposed to the effects of time and rhythms that exist in Israeli music."

"His greatest hits like 'Hu Yigal Otanu' and 'Kavei Hashem', and 'Modeh Ani', on one hand, and his great hit 'Aleh Katan Sheli' – for which he also wrote the lyrics, became milestones in Jewish Music today. Despite his young age, fingerprints are evident today in many areas from the band 'Oif Simches' which he established and founded, through the tunes to the great Chasidic singer such as Avraham Fried, Dedi Graucher, Dudu Fisher and his work with the choir kids 'Kinderlach', reflecting a contemporary to those bands 'Pirchei' on which a complete generation grew upon. His talent has brought new audiences to Hasidic song."

The jury chose to award the prize of 15,000 shekels to Lapidot "not as a summary, but as a catalyst for the future in which we expect to see his considerable influence on Hasidic song."

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