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Oren Lavie

Oren Lavie is an Israeli singer, songwriter, director and children's author, known for the music video "Her Morning Elegance", which earned a 2009 Grammy nomination.

born 1976The video "Her Morning Elegance"The album The Opposite Side of the SeaThe Bear Who Wasn't There

Occupation: singer, songwriter, director, composer
Education: London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art

Oren Lavie was born in 1976 in Tel Aviv

Oren Lavie was born in Tel Aviv in 1976 and grew up there. In 1997 he wrote and directed the play Sticks in Wheels, which won the main prizes at the Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre.

In 1998 he moved to London to study theatre directing at LAMDA. After he graduated, two of his plays were staged in London theatres, and they included songs he wrote and composed.

In 2001 he moved to New York and turned toward songwriting. In 2003 he settled in Berlin, where he recorded and produced his first album, The Opposite Side of the Sea. It came out in Europe in 2007 and in the United States in 2009.

His stop motion video for "Her Morning Elegance", made with Merav and Yuval Natan, drew over 30 million views on YouTube and a 2009 Grammy nomination. His second album, Bedroom Crimes, followed, and its song "Second Hand Lovers" won a jury award at SXSW in 2018.

He also writes children's books. The Bear Who Wasn't There appeared in 2014 and was translated into 12 languages, and a book published in Germany in 2023 was nominated for the German Children's Literature Award.