Ziv Rubinstein

Ziv Rubinstein was born in 1970 in Tel Aviv

Ziv Rubinstein was born on 20 March 1970 in Tel Aviv and grew up there. He learned guitar at 11. He played in a teenage band called Blood at 13 and in a band called Ursula at 15.

After his army service he went to New York, where he worked as a television producer alongside music. In 1992, on a TV show hosted by Dudu Topaz, he was sent to be photographed with Michelle Pfeiffer. Two days after he showed the photo, it emerged that it was taken with a cardboard figure and that he had known the task in advance.

In 1998 he founded the band The Babies with Reuven Hayun, which released one album. In 2000 he wrote the championship song of Hapoel Tel Aviv. His first solo EP came out in 2006 and his second solo album on 1 January 2013.

He wrote songs for Shlomi Shabat, including one used as the mentor song of The Voice Israel, and worked with Arkadi Duchin on a children's album that reached gold status. He was a news producer at Channel 10 from 2000 and left in 2013 to open a production company. He also taught music at a bilingual school in Jaffa.