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The Portnoy Brothers
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “british-israeli folk rock duo formed in 2014 by manchester -born siblings sruli”. Today it says “british–israeli folk rock duo formed in 2014 by manchester -born brothers israel portnoy”.
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The Portnoy Brothers ) are a British-Israeli folk rock duo formed in 2014 by Manchester -born siblings Sruli (born 1990; vocals , guitar ) and Mendy Portnoy (born 1992; keyboards ). Their debut album, as The Portnoy Brothers, Learn to Love , was released independently on 23 September 2016. On 29 March 2019 they released "The Garden Sessions" EP under their new name, PORTNOY.1
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british-israeli folk rock duo formed in 2014 by manchester -born siblings sruli
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british–israeli folk rock duo formed in 2014 by manchester -born brothers israel portnoy
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