Yael Naim

Yael Naim was born in 1978 in Paris

Yael Naim was born in Paris on 6 February 1978 to Jewish parents from Tunisia. At the age of 4 she moved with her family to Israel, and they settled in Ramat HaSharon.

She studied piano at the music conservatory in Ramat HaSharon. She graduated from Alon High School in the city, in its music track. In the IDF she served as a soloist in the Air Force orchestra.

She began her career in France in the musical Les Dix Commandements, and her first solo album, In a Man's Womb, came out in 2001. Her second album, Yael Naim, recorded with David Donatien in her Paris apartment, was released on 22 October 2007 with songs in French, English and Hebrew. In January 2008 Apple used her song "New Soul" in its first MacBook Air commercial, and it reached No. 7 on the American Billboard chart.

In 2010 she voiced Dorit in an episode of The Simpsons, and her third album, She Was a Boy, came out at the end of that year. She won Female Artist of the Year at the Victoires de la Musique in 2011 and again in 2016, after her album Older. In 2013 France made her a knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

She is married to the musician David Donatien, and they have 2 children.