Moshe Peretz

Moshe Peretz was born in 1983 in Tiberias

Peretz was born on 10 May 1983 in Tiberias and grew up there in a Sephardic Jewish family. His father Miguel was of Moroccan Jewish origin and his mother was of Iraqi Jewish origin. As a child he sang as a cantor at the Yaakov Gaz synagogue near his parents' home, and from age 16 he worked as a barber.

He joined the IDF in November 2001 and served in the Ordnance Corps. After he sang at a Memorial Day ceremony on his base, he auditioned for a military band and in July 2002 joined the Northern Command entertainment troupe. During his service he began working on his own album.

His first album, Mabit El Hamromim, came out in June 2005 and sold over 10,000 copies. Esh followed in 2007, Elaich in 2008 went platinum, and Me'ha'shamaim in 2010 sold over 110,000 copies and went double platinum. He writes most of his own songs and has also written for Sarit Hadad, Shlomi Shabat, Tamir Gal and Lior Narkis.

In 2009 he was runner-up on the fifth season of Dancing with the Stars, and in 2010 he received an ACUM award. He later served on the panels of Music Academy, Kokhav Nolad and The X Factor Israel.

In March 2016 he pleaded guilty to tax evasion in a plea bargain, and in October 2016 he was fined NIS 60,000 and given 4 months of community service. He is married to Yarden Gozlan and they live in Be'er Ya'akov with their 3 children.