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he sky's the limit for
American/Israeli singer
Yaniv, who comes to the
Detroit area this week to
present Chanukah shows at Machon
L'Torah and Yeshivat Akiva.
Yaniv's first album, Kumi Ori (Arise
and Shine), sold out in less than two
years. Two selections from the album
were top hits in Israel, where they can be
heard everywhere from pop radio stations
to supermarket loudspeaker systems.
And, when RC Cola's Israeli distribu-
tor issued a special promotional disc of
the top hits of 1999, Yaniv's song Ani
Maamin (I Believe) was chosen as num-
ber two, right after a cut from show-
stopper Avraham Fried's latest release.
Not bad for a devout young man of
25.
The singer-songwriter's two Detroit-
area concerts take place Dec. 19 and 21.
The first, sponsored by Machon
LTorah, will be held at Seaholm High
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School in Birmingham, Tuesday, Dec.
19; the second will take place at Yeshivot
Akiva in Southfield, Thursday, Dec. 21.
Yaniv has strong Detroit-area con-
nections, at least stemming from last
summer. His full name is Yaniv Tsaidi,
and he's the oldest son of Rabbi Dr.
Yigal Tsaidi, who came on board as
principal at Akiva at the start of the
2000 2001 school year.
Born in Israel, Yaniv started taking
Suzuki violin lessons at age 3. "He
always loved the sound of the violin,"
his father said.
At 5, he started to play piano by ear,
so the family found a teacher. "He was
also singing," Rabbi Tsaidi remem-
bered. "Every time we had a family
event, he was playing the piano and
singing. That's the way he grew up."
In third grade, he was accepted in
an exclusive choir in Rehovot.
Conducted by Israeli teacher and com-
poser Muna Rosenblaum, this is where

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he learned basic music theory and
vocal production.
The Tsaidi family settled in the
United States in 1978. As Rabbi Tsaidi
earned his doctorate in educational
administration from Boston Hebrew
College, Yaniv continued to perfect his
musical skills along with his knowl-
edge of Torah and Talmud, perform-
ing with a band based in his yeshiva in
Providence, R.I.
His first real break came in 1996.
Organizers from the Israeli city of
Hebron were in the United States to
make last-minute arrangements for a
fund-raising concert in Chicago, only two
weeks away. They spent Shabbat with the
Tsaidi family, who were now living in
Milwaukee, and heard Yaniv davening.
"The chairman of the Hebron con-
cert asked me to compose a song for
the concert. It was opening up for this
guy called Dedi," Yaniv said. "It was
really the first performance I had in
front of a big crowd. I really wasn't
expecting 1,500 people to be there,
but it was a very good experience for
me and I really got going after that."
The song, "Chevron," written mainly
in English, pulls no punches about the
young singer's political views: "Not one
inch of land; don't shake anybody's hand;
Chevron is here to stay," Yaniv wrote.
The song attracted both positive and
negative notice, he said, but on the
whole, it was a hit with the Chicago
Jewish community.
"The message of the Chevron song
is that every inch of land Kadosh
HaBaruch Hu (the Holy One, Blessed
be He), gives us is holy," Yaniv says.
"Therefore, it should be treated that
way. I just feel that the more [land] we
if we give any away, and
give away
when we did give any away — it was-
n't like the violence ever stopped."
It was the popularity of "Chevron" and
his other solo and group appearances
that made Yaniv think of recording his
first album. A second is in the works.
Yaniv has always had the full sup-