hi, i'm running a class on mizrahi music and i am trying to make a list of singers by their communities of origin (yemenite, moroccan, persian etc...) and there are a few i just can't seem to find any info on their families or anything...can anyone tell me the origins for lior narkis, moshik afia and rinat bar?

Shalom Eliska, sorry for the late reply! Its quite a difficult question you are asking..i did some searching, but rather difficult to find out..i only found out that Rinat Bar her parents are Georgian Jews..on Moshik and Lior i couldnt find anything, i will check some more, but i dont think i will be able to find the info for you!

Hi Eliska And Chosen,
Just like Chosen wrote Rinat Bar is from A Georgian origin (Ex Ussr Republic).
Lior Narkis is from A Turkish origin.
Moshik Afiya is from An Iraqi origin.
All of them are ofcourse Jews, as are about 99% of the singers from this music gerne in israel.
Just like chosen has written, info about these matters is not that common and not always easy to find as these singers (or any singers in Israel for this matter) don't go out saying from which country they or their family came from, I think it is because it is just not relevant.
Sometimes it is possible to know an origin of A singer by their last name, accent or if they mentioned it in An interview they gave but that is becoming less common and less relevant. Hope the answers are helpful to you.
Wishing everyone at Kikar-Israel A lovely evening

thank you all so much for your help of course i know they are all jews and i understand there is not much reason to make this information public. my purpose for gathering this information is to teach others (especially americans since many have not been to israel) about how diverse israeli society is and to show that there are jewish communities from all over the world, they didn't all just come to israel from europe. ve'od pa'am todah rabah haverim!

Thanks for adding the info Jacob, i dont think i would have been able to find it! Nice subject to discuss Eliska..all the different cultures brought their own cultures with them to Israel, it brought many positive things along..like the diversity in music..and of course the diversity in great fooood ..well im sure there are more positive sides to it, but these two just popped up in my head