Erez Lev Ari

Erez Lev Ari was born in 1970

Erez Lev Ari was born on 16 August 1970 as Erez Azrazar and is of Moroccan and Yemeni descent. His mother died when he was 4, and he grew up in his grandmother's home in Kiryat Ata. He learned guitar as a boy and became known as a guitarist in Haifa and the Krayot area.

He served in the army as a paratrooper and then moved to Tel Aviv. In 1996 he joined the band When Nico Starts Talking shortly before it broke up. He later played on albums by its singer Patrick Sabag and its keyboardist Eyal Kaufman, and backed artists such as Etti Ankri and Meir Banai.

He began releasing singles in 2006, and his first album, The Joy in Small Details, came out in 2007. In 2008 he wrote and sang Ana Efne, the opening song of the TV series Srugim, and the album reached gold status in 2011. His second album, Crimson, followed in 2010.

In 2013 he released The Lonely Tree with Patrick Sabag, and in 2016 the album The Stains of Culture. In 2018 he took part in the reunion of When Nico Starts Talking. In 2023 he released the album Love and Release. He lives in Tel Aviv with his wife Hadas and three children.