| Oriental Music Is Here To Stay! |
| Saturday, 07 April 2007 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Instead of talking about his new album, Moshik Afia prefers to let everyone know about the discrimination towards Oriental music by radio and tv stations.
One moment Moshik Afia will remember the best from the last music TV awards in Israel, is of Eyal Golan going on stage to present an award and revealing a T-shirt with the writing: Oriental Music Isn’t My Taste. Moshik Afia, with a huge amount of top hits in the Israeli music industry, has recently released a new album named, No Logic In Love, but it seems that what’s really important to him is to take out some steam about the local media that have shut the doors in his and his colleagues faces.Eyal Golan was totally correct he claims, they don’t like our music anymore. I already sing for 15 years, I never complained about discrimination, but now I have reached a point where I feel, sorry for the expression, Disgusted! On one hand I continue performing endlessly in front of crowds almost every evening, and even more. The song No Logic In Love, from my latest album is a huge hit in all the clubs I perform at. I just sing 2 lines and the audience take over from there and on the second hand the radio stations are ignoring me and the song like nothing has happened. Q: You can't claim that the music editors at the radio stations have something against you, after hits like I’m Not Free and Sweet Dream were played countless times? A: every song of mine that was a hit, already had success before reaching the radio stations. People already played it a lot, only after the radio and TV stations noticed that they cant ignore it anymore they started playing it. Also after letting me sing the song I’m Not Free at the prime time on TV, the media claimed they made it a hit, but how can they say that, all the people know it was a hit much before it, my audience knows the truth. More singers from the oriental field don’t understand what has happened in the last 2 years, its like someone there decided that they got their share and what they deserved and we don’t deserve anything anymore. If I would think that my new songs aren’t good enough, I might have accepted it! But I worked on this album harder than ever before. When my manager played to me for the first time on the phone a general tune of No Logic In Love, I knew it will be a huge hit. It has been exactly 2 years between this album and my previous one, Take Yourself A Wife, so now you can see clearly the differences from two years ago till now. Q: Which are ? A: That we have totally been erased, every small time singer from A Star Is Born that hasn’t even written a chorus or even a musical note, not to mention an entire song, is getting endless exposure. An artist like me that sings, writes, composes for 15 years has to fight just to keep my career alive, and behave like my career has just started yesterday. I will lie to you if I say its not frustrating me. 10 years ago I went to turkey, I opened one of the TV channels and I saw clips of only Turkish singers. They know how to respect all their singers, here they give a stage and back up only foreign pop music and artists that sing, act and try to belong to the same genre. We can say, in favor of Moshik Afia, that he isn’t willing to become more flexible for the Israeli play lists. His song No Logic In Love and also the opening song of the album, Answer The Phone, stick to the same familiar Oriental sound. I knew they would make a gimmick out of it, says Moshik, but there is no connection between I’m Not Free and Answer The Phone. On the song Answer The Phone, I’m trying to reach a woman and I cant have her, even the mood in both the songs are different. I love the song Answer The Phone and if I believe in a song no one can convince me to give it up, as a principle I will never apologize for the music that I make. I don’t make old time Israeli songs, I don’t make pop music, and not even Mediterranean music: I am an oriental singer completely and I am going to stay one. Q: And if someone else will make a cover to one of your songs at A Star Is Born’s new season, your opinion will change ? A: That wont happen, in the first season Ninet won after singing a song of Zohar Argov and Shiri Maimon, sang a song of Amir Benayun, and there it was over. When was the last time you heard an oriental song on A Star Is Born? Even my friend Yehuda Saado won after singing a song of Shlomo Artzi. Yehuda knows the truth, he knows they don’t want Oriental songs at A Star Is Born, or at any other program at channel 2. Personally I will continue receiving love from the crowd and audience big time, without any middle man. Reference: Mooma Moshik Afia
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