Tamar Yahalomi
Tamar Yahalomi is an Israeli singer and songwriter.
Biography
Yahalomi was born in Holon, Israel, and served in the Education and Youth Corps Choir. She first appeared in Kokhav Nolad with her hits songs "Tefilut" and "Mazel", which she produced and performed together with her partner Yonatan Kalimi. Yahami has produced songs for prominent names in the Israeli music industry, including Eden Ben Zaken, Moshe Peretz, Sarit Hadad, Omer Adam, Agam Bohbot, Itay Levy, and Osher Cohen, and she is one of the most played creators on radio stations in Israel.Career
Yahalomi began her professional career in 2011, at the age of 16 and a half, when she participated in the Keshet show "Kokhav Nolad". Ahead of the season's semi-finals, the show's production revealed that in two previous programs, the results were rigged by sending many text messages from cell phone numbers from the same groups of numbers, in favor of the contestant Yahalomi. Therefore, the production decided to allow the last three evicted ones to compete together with Yahalomi for one more ticket to the semi-finals, but Yahalomi herself preferred to withdraw from the show after her father admitted that he was behind the biasing of the results.In December 2011, Yahalomi started a solo career and released her debut single "The Truth".
In November 2012, she was interviewed on Network C, while talking about the future duet with Moshik Afia
. On November 4, 2012, the duet was officially released, and its release was a great success. Later she released the song "Fears".
In addition to her singing career, Yahami also started a career as a songwriter, music producer, and composer.
In 2013, she released the song "The Test of Time". The song received positive reviews, and even managed to enter Media Forest's weekly chart.
In 2018, among others, the hits "I love you for real" by Omer Adam, "Get out of my head" and "Mitpalelet" by Sarit Hadad, which she wrote, were released.
In 2021, she released the songs "Who am I" and "The best parties".
In September 2022, together with Rami Kleinstein, she released a duet called "Somewhere in the World". In the same year, together with her partner Sarit Hadad, she released a joint performance from a concert in Caesarea for the songs "Mazel" and "Love Like Ours", with this music video they both came out of the closet in public.
On May 16, 2023, she released the single "Tefilot" which reached the 73rd place on the Mako Hit List.
In November 2023, during the Gaza war, the song "We are destiny" was published, which she wrote and composed together with Yonatan Kalimi and was performed by her partner, the singer Sarit Hadad, and the singer Eden Hason.
At the same time as her solo career, together with her partner in writing and composing songs, Yonatan Klimi, she released the song "Cellphones" with the guest singer Rotem Chen, the song "Come back to you", and the song "Mazel" which became a hit and gained over 16 million views.
Awards
- 2023 – ACUM - Author of the Year Award