Live from Tel Aviv, two nice Jewish boys.

Hi, I'm Aiton Weinstein, and I'm Noor Minninger.

It's not often we get to host a Grammy Award winner on our podcast, and by not often, I mean this is the first time ever.

Today we have the privilege to talk with Miri Ben Ari, aka the hip-hop violinist,

and probably one of the most famous and influential Israelis to hit the contemporary international

music scene. Miri was born in Tel Aviv where she grew up playing classical music since the age of

five. Her encounter with the world-renowned violinist Isaac Stern brought her towards the violin,

and ever since then, her romance with this instrument flourished. Following her military service in the IDF, string quartet,

she moved to New York to study jazz. She played gigs and worked hard, and after some time it all paid off,

when Jay-Z noticed her talent and invited her to play with him.

She then went on to extraordinary accomplishments, like playing with Wyclef at Carnegie Hall,

co-writing Jesus Walks with Kanye, which got her the Grammy, being featured in countless tracks on his debut album and following albums, releasing her own debut album,

the hip-hop violinist, performing on David Letterman's late night, performing for Barack Obama and

Michelle Obama at the White House, and the list goes on and on and on.

In addition to all that, Ben-Ari has devoted her life to social causes. She's a UN ambassador of music, and her

NGO, Gedank, has set as its mission to educate American youth about the Holocaust.

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Israel's largest online social network community in English.

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