shai bachar

Born in Jerusalem, began playing music at the age of five. Growing up in a multi-cultural environment exposed him to a wide variety of influences such as Middle Eastern traditional music, Classical music and Jazz. His rare ability to absorb these influences and mold them into his own unique voice won him world wide recognition and led to collaborations with such notable artists as Sheila Jordan, Bob Moses, Oliver Lake, and Bill Dixon from the USA; Othello Molineaux from Trinidad; Sekouba Bambino and Ibrahim Sumano from Guinea, West Africa. Shai has been living and playing in New York City since 1998 where he is an active and highly appreciated musician. For the past years he has been performing extensively nationwide with Orlando Marlin's Afro-Cuban Latin-Jazz group, and touring with world renowned guitarist Yosi Piamenta's Oriental Sephardic Jewish Music group, in Europe, South America and the Far-East. Shai Toured the world playing with Omar Faruk Tekbilek from 2001 to 2004 , in 2004 Shai founded along with tenor saxophonist Greg Wall the "Later Prophets" Ensemble and recorded an album for Zadic label in NYC , the group played in international festivals including Media wave festival Gyor Hungary April 2004 Currently, Shai's main works are influenced by the rich traditions of world music and contemorary sounds.