Israeli singer Asaf Avidan is little known in the U.S., but his new release is expected to change that. His new album, Gold Shadow is his first official release in North America. Occasionally, our ...

One part of Asaf Avidan, the Israeli songwriter who gave a solo concert on Friday night at Irving Plaza, is a lot like Leonard Cohen: the Leonard Cohen who sings delicately fingerpicked songs full of ...

So I'm driving down the road when I hear this incredible voice coming out of my car speakers — part Janis Joplin, part Nina Simone — and I wonder, "Who is she?" That day, I'd ripped a number of CDs ...

While Asaf Avidan has drawn comparisons to Janis Joplin, Jeff Buckley and Nina Simone, he possesses a voice that is utterly singular. As London’s The Independent recently put it, “If you haven’t heard ...

If one were to listen to the music of Asaf Avidan, an Israeli singer-songwriter, chances are they’d be convinced that the singer is a female chain smoker who enjoys indulging in whiskey. Tel Aviv ...

The singer Asaf Avidan has a remarkable voice and a great new song, written in one sleepless night in Paris that also sparked the beginning of a... Earlier this year I heard a voice like no other. In ...

The Israeli singer has a compelling, unusual, wholly original voice. On Gold Shadow, his first official release in North America, he writes with... It's easy to listen to Asaf Avidan and not know if ...

Asaf Avidan, 34, is the best-selling independent artist in his native Israel, but the rest of the world knows him for a song he would rather disown. His acoustic lament “Reckoning Song” became a No. 1 ...

Israeli singer-songwriter Asaf Avidan has been compared to Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, and each time he comes to Chicago, he plays to ever-larger crowds. His unique voice draws fans in, but it’s his ...

Together with American Songwriter and Sean Ulbs of The Eiffels, we had the pleasure of interviewing Asaf Avidan over Zoom video! Asaf Avidan has shared his new album Anagnorisis today, a ten-song ...

Photographed for the "Pop Goes the World" portfolio in THR's music issue, the soulful Avidan, often compared to Janis Joplin and Nina Simone, talks about why he's not "bothered" to be mistaken for a ...