Kobi Farhi

Kobi Farhi was born in 1975 in Jaffa

Kobi Farhi was born in Jaffa on 8 September 1975 and grew up there. As a child he already loved heavy metal. Through his family he also came to know Oriental and world music.

In 1991 he formed Orphaned Land with friends from high school. In the IDF he served as an armored personnel carrier mechanic and was released after one year.

In 1997 he founded the record label MDMA, which focused on metal and electronic music. He left it in 2001, when Orphaned Land played its first show abroad, in Turkey. He also worked as a musical editor at Century Media Records and sang as a guest on albums by other artists.

Farhi has long worked for dialogue between Jews and Muslims through music. He toured with bands from Muslim countries and recorded with Mira Awad. For about 3 decades he performed with a keffiyeh, and he removed it after the 7 October 2023 massacre.

In 2025 he published a book about his life and the band's history, funded through crowdfunding.