Alon OleartchikSongs, albums, age and where shows are announced

Alon Oleartchik was born in Poland in 1950 and came to Israel in 1957, growing up in Netanya and then Bat Yam. He learned piano as a child and guitar at a military boarding school in Haifa, and played bass in the bands Prahei HaBlues and HaTzabar HaDokrani. In 1968 he joined the Nahal Troupe, where he met Danny Sanderson, Meir Fenigstein, Ephraim Shamir and Gidi Gov, his future bandmates in Kaveret.

When Kaveret formed in 1973 he became one of its main songwriters beside Sanderson, co-writing songs such as Yeled Mizdaken, Natati La Hayai, Goliath and Tango Tzfardeim. In 1978 he went to study jazz at Berklee in Boston, then worked as a musician in New York. Back in Israel for Kaveret's 1984 reunion, he released his first solo album, Oleartchik, in 1985, with Meir VeAlon, Hi Holekhet BaDrakhim and Ba LaShkhuna Bakhur Hadash, and was named singer of the year on Reshet Gimel's annual chart.

His later albums include Tagid Li Ma Ata Margish (1993), Boi Nagid SheAni Shelakh (1996), Rock & Rokh (2007) and Te BiShnayim (2015), jazz standards made with Eli Degibri. He produced albums for Etti Ankri, Gidi Gov and Tipex, and in 2017 he won the ACUM lifetime achievement award named after Ehud Manor. In 2025, the year he turned 75, he released Ke'ilu Shirim, 100 unreleased songs spread over eight albums, and a songbook, Kol HaShirim, Kim'at, with 77 of his songs.