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listening to Ella Fitzgerald. Arbel 
studied jazz at the Rimon School 
of Music near Tel Aviv, then moved 
on to the Newpark Music School 
Center in Dublin, Ireland, and 
attended the 24th International 
Association of Schools of Jazz con-
ference in South Africa as its repre-
sentative. She earned her bachelor 
of arts degree in Jazz Performance 
at Newpark, with high honors. 
“I always defaulted into singing 
and pushed to that,” Arbel says, 
“and luckily I had that support 
from my family.”

GLOBAL CONNECTIONS
After graduating, she began to 
travel the world as a singer and 
dancer, performing throughout 
Israel as well as in Turkey, Bulgaria 
and the U.S. Arbel moved to New 
York during 2014 and became part 
of the jazz scene there, collaborat-
ing with an international array of 
artists such as Guy Mintus, Samir 
Langus, Tulio Araujo and the 
Japanese band Ichimujin. “With 
every music genre that I’ve encoun-
tered, it was just a deeper explora-
tion, for all of my life,” Abel says. 
Those global connections also 
instilled in Arbel a spirit of com-
passion and inclusiveness that’s 
reflected in the songs on “Oneness” 
— and, of course, the album’s title. 
“It’s about just how we, as human 
beings, can be a bit better,” she 

explains. “A lot of the songs talk 
about the meaning of what it is to 
be human and how we can dive 
deeper in ourselves to be better to 
ourselves, and hopefully that will 
ripple around us and create not just 
a better self but better surround-
ings and, hopefully, a better world.
“I wrote it during COVID, 
which was a few years ago. And 
it’s very interesting to see how the 
topics that came out have been 
very, very relevant to the present 
time. It seems like the world is 
just going bananas ... but, you 
know, we are human beings on this 
planet, and there’s always room 
for improvement within ourselves 
regardless of what is happening 
around you.”
With “Oneness” out, Arbel — 
who also teaches music — says “the 
seed has been planted” for her next 
project, something she describes 
as “more conceptual” and diving 
further into the Indian styles that 
infuse the new albums. And she’s 
not averse to looking even further 
ahead. 
“I would love to maybe have a 
collaborative album with different 
artists,” she says. “And I would 
love to bring my music and play it 
with a big band or a large orchestra 
and hear the music in that aspect. 
That would be such a dream come 
true, so we’ll see. Hopefully it can 
happen.” 

MAUREN MCGEE

Sivan Arbel

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