Wikipedia's first sentence called it “born as yosef levy in tel aviv 's kerem hateimanim”. Today it says “israeli singer”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Israeli singer Musical artist”. It now reads “Mizrahi-style Israeli singer Musical artist”.
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Daklon was born as Yosef Levy in Tel Aviv 's Kerem Hateimanim (Yemenite) quarter in the mid-1940s.1Your given name was only good for your ID.2As a kid I was as skinny as a rake (dak in Hebrew) so they called me 'Daklon,'" he explains.3 He started his musical career as an 11-year-old when his teacher sent him to do a spot for a religious music radio show. We all sat around the radio listening to it at home. My parents were so proud of me. I was a local superstar," he laughs. Daklon was first inspired to take his music more seriously by Moroccan-born singer Joe Amar at the end of the 1950s. "Joe Amar started singing all those eastern songs but it didn't catch on so he left Israel," he explains. Daklon says he stepped into the breach. I, as a Yemenite, took over from the Greeks," he muses.4Daklon is an Israeli singer of Yemenite extraction famed for his renditions of Yeminte Jewish music in Hebrew. Daklon was born as Yosef Levy and gained the name Daklon in his youth due to his slender appearance (Dak- means skinny in Hebrew).5Daklon was born in Tel Aviv's Kerem Hateimanim (Yemenite) quarter in the mid-1940s.6Israelis consider Daklon as the symbol of Israeli Middle Eastern Mizrahi music.7 He started his musical career as an 11-year-old when his teacher sent him to do a spot for a religious music radio show. Daklon took Greek and Indian songs and put Hebrew words to them in the 1960s when his career was launched. He is famed for his perfomances with Yemenite virtuosos Haim Moshe and Avihu Medina. Daklon songs are usually themed on his love for the land of Israel and the Lord of Israel and Zionism . Daklon music draws on centuries of Hebrew poetry and musical traditions of the Yemenite Jews .8
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Daklon is the nickname of an Israeli musical artist Yosef Levy .He was born in the mid-1940s in Tel Aviv 's Kerem Hateimanim ( Yemenite ) neighborhood.As Daklon explains the source of his nickname: "In those days everyone in the Kerem had a nickname. Your given name was only good for your ID. As a kid I was very small and thin, almost skinny (Hebrew: דק, dak ).Therefore they called me Daklon ." For many Israelis, Daklon is the epitome of Israeli roots music. He started his musical career as an 11-year-old when his teacher sent him to do a spot for a religious music radio show. We all sat around the radio listening to it at home. My parents were so proud of me. I was a local superstar," he laughs. Daklon was first inspired to take his music more seriously by Morocco -born singer Joe Amar at the end of the 1950s. "Joe Amar started singing all those eastern songs but it didn't catch on so he left Israel," he explains. Daklon says he stepped into the breach. I, as a Yemenite, took over from the Greeks," he muses. Daklon took Greek and Indian songs and put Hebrew words to them in the 1960s when his career was launched. He is famed for his performances with Yemenite virtuosos Haim Moshe and Avihu Medina . Daklon songs are usually themed on his love for the land of Israel and the God of Israel . Daklon's music draws on centuries of Hebrew poetry and musical traditions of the Yemenite Jews .
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Musical artist Daklon (born Yosef Levy) is an Israeli musician.Mediterranean Israeli Music and the Politics of the Aesthetic .
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He was born in Tel Aviv 's Kerem Hateimanim neighborhood, the son of Jewish immigrants from the Shar'ab region in Yemen .Daklon explains the source of his nickname: "In those days everyone in the Kerem had a nickname.Your given name was a form of identification .As a kid I was quite short and skinny, (Hebrew: דק, dak ; daq ), and so, they called me Daklon ." He started his musical career as an 11-year-old when his teacher sent him to do a piece for a religious music radio show.At the end of the 1950s Daklon's professional career took off.He was first inspired to take his music to the professional level by the famous Moroccan-born Israeli singer, Joe Amar .Daklon had also translated famous Greek and Hindi songs into Hebrew in the 1960s, at the beginning of his career.Since the 1960s, he has been performing with Haim Moshe and Avihu Medina .He has produced more than 35 albums to date.Daklon music draws on Jewish, Middle-Eastern and Yemenite Jewish poetry, psalms, Bible, and ancient Jewish hymns. Mediterranean Israeli Music and the Politics of the Aesthetic .
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He was born in Tel Aviv 's Kerem Hateimanim neighborhood, the son of Jewish immigrants from the Shar'ab region in Yemen . Daklon explains the source of his nickname: "In those days everyone in the Kerem had a nickname. Your given name was a form of identification . As a kid I was quite short and skinny, (Hebrew: דק, dak ; daq ), and so, they called me Daklon ." He started his musical career as an 11-year-old when his teacher sent him to do a piece for a religious music radio show.
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Mizrahi-style Israeli singer Musical artist Daklon ( Hebrew : דַקְלוֹן ) (born Yosef Levy ; Hebrew : יוֹסֵף לֵוֹי ; 6 April 1944) is an Israeli singer. He was born in Tel Aviv 's Kerem Hateimanim neighborhood, the son of Jewish immigrants from the Shar'ab region in Yemen . Daklon explains the source of his nickname: "In those days, everyone in the Kerem had a nickname. Your given name was a form of identification. As a kid, I was quite short and skinny ( Hebrew : דַקְ , romanized : dak/daq ) and so, they called me Daklon ." He started his musical career as an 11-year-old when his teacher sent him to do a piece for a religious music radio show.
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