Yossi Fine

Yossi Fine was born in 1964 in Paris

Yossi Fine was born in Paris on December 7, 1964. His father was a Jewish Holocaust survivor from Lithuania and a guitarist, and his mother was a singer of Afro-Caribbean origin from Martinique. His parents moved to Israel soon after his birth and later returned to Paris, while he stayed and grew up with his grandmother in Tel Aviv.

He started playing guitar at age 4 and switched to bass at 16, when he also began working as a session musician. At 17 he left school to practice for hours each day. In 1984 he played on the soundtrack of the film Koko Ben 19 and on Ofra Haza's album Adama.

In 1985 he moved to New York and played with the Gil Evans Orchestra until 1991. He also played with Lou Reed and others, and in 1991 his composition for Stanley Jordan was nominated for a Grammy. In 1995 he played on David Bowie's album Outside and returned to Israel.

In 1997 he formed Ex-Centric Sound System with Israeli and Ghanaian musicians. He produced albums for Shabak Samech and Hadag Nahash, and won the ACUM Award in 2005 for producing Homer Mekomi. He later played bass in the Touré-Raichel Collective.

In 2016 he moved to microtonal guitar and formed a duo with drummer Ben Aylon. He also teaches at the BPM college and, since 2023, at Just Music.