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Who I Am & Where I Live
- Name: Liron Meyuhas
- City: Tel Aviv
- Country: Israel
- Hometown: Jerusalem
My Life & Work
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Bio:
Liron was born in 1985 in Jerusalem. As a child she studied guitar and piano, and after encountering Egyptian music and rhythm on vacations in the Sinai desert, she started taking private lessons for darbuka and djembe. At twenty she began pursuing Eastern music studies in Jerusalem, where she delved into the rich tradition of ancient Jewish hymns, and broadened her repertoire with the frame drum, the Riq, and other percussion instruments.
In 2007 Liron travelled to Europe for a year to volunteer in agricultural projects, where she discovered old traditions of Flamenco singing (southern Spain), and Tarantella music in southern Italy. She worked on a farm, learning different agricultural skills such as cheesemaking, shepherding, picking. During this time she first picked up the Swiss Hang drum. In this atmosphere of nature and seclusion, inspiration was abundant and Liron wrote, sang and performed, meeting local people, drifters and musicians on the nomadic circuit. These experiences were an important stepping stone in the evolution of Liron’s global musical identity.
The year 2008 saw Liron travelling to West Africa (Senegal, Gambia, Guinea Conakry) for humanitarian projects with the Spanish NGO Pasos Positivos. In Guinea Conakry she spent two months studying traditional West African drumming and dance, she played weddings and other traditional ceremonies with a groupe of Guinean musicians.
Liron applied and got accepted to Siena Jazz Academy in Italy, specializing in world percussion with an emphasis on Jazz. She played ensembles and studied piano and trumpet. During her studies she discovered Afro Jazz and played with musicians from Griotte Dembele’, a family of musicians from Ivory Coast. As well in Italy she worked for a musical circus troupe (Cantiere Ikrea), performing Italy, Russia and Poland. Years of successive travelling and living in different location were continually shaping Liron’s identity as a nomad.
Liron returned to Israel where she received a scholarship for Outstanding Musician from the ministry of immigration, and began performing with her own music. Liron has participated in exciting collaborations with dance groups such as Bat Sheva , acclaimed Israeli musician Kutiman’s project “Through Tel Aviv”, Cafe GIbraltar , Etti Ankri, Maurice Almadiuni and others. As well, Liron has been active in peace and coexistence projects, performing as a duo with Palestinian female Oud player Helen Sabila from Bethlehem. As well, Liron has hosted workshops for Arab and Jewish children and participated in the Women Wage Peace marches ( 2016-2018).
In 2013 Liron toured the Czech Republic, taking part in a project called ‘’Gathering of Drummers”, as the only female performer. As well she represented Israel in “Women in Jazz” in Rome. In 2014 she launched “La Gitana” project, performing as trio all over Israel. In she 2016 toured Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, garnering a warm reception from the East European crowd. She performed solo in Italy - Rome and Florence, established female percussion trio “Malaika Trio” (Angel Trio in Swahili) and performed all over Israel and Switzerland, recording an album in 2016. Over the last three years she played and sang in Portugal, Spain,Italy, France and Croatia with the international project “Sois 7 Luas”, A Portuguese initiative uniting musicians from around the Mediterranean.
Liron recorded her first full length LP “La Gitana” in 2018. The album was produced by Yael Deckelbaum and includes influences from Jewish texts, African rhythm, Italian folklore and many more. The album was supported by a successful crowdfunding campaign and was followed by a tour of Italy and currently Israel. As well, over the last two years Liron has collaborated and recorded for Spanish guitar maestro Estas Tonne (for his “Mother of Souls” album) and celebrated Ecuadorian electronic artist Nicola Cruz.
In 2017 Liron finished her B.ed musical education studies in Tel Aviv university, with the specialist with disable people.
From 2018 till now Liron is touring Israel & Europe with her project as solo artist or trio.
In the summer of 2019 Liron toured Europe, the USA & Canada with the American singer Peia, as her percussionist.
Liron is the first Israeli percussionist to be endorsed by Meinl Percussion in Germany.
Contact Information
- Email: liron.management@gmail.com
My Media & Markets
- ▶ Instagram: liron_meyuhas
- ▶ Website: http://www.lironmeyuhas.com
- ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/lironchik
- ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UC9HGBFf5Vp1qnYble4xT_Lw
- ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/7yc8nuHlTAJIwe9Qh5uum1
- ▶ Spotify 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/1TDw5AnEGSUbXdXtR60OZd
- ▶ Spotify 3: http://open.spotify.com/album/05EYNvGBduyDIQ9tCN0Y4a
My Instruction
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Lessons/Workshops:
Oriental Beats:
A Percussion Workshop by Liron Meyuhas
Goals:
Introducing percussion techniques from North Africa, the Middle East and Turkey. Participants will become acquainted with different percussion instruments from the Mediterranean basin.
Method:
Introduction to different instruments, technical practice, percussion ensemble
Equipment Requirements:
Each participant brings his own drum. Recommended drums: Darbuka / Djembe / Frame drum
Instruments brought by Liron:
Hang drum, kalabash, Riq.
Clips (more may be added)
The world's artistry via giant steps through a matrix based in the phenomenon placing most of the 7.8 billion of us within 6 or fewer degrees — steps — of each other ...
... a project conceived and built in the fertile, fecund and atavistic ground zero of Bahia, Brazil initially for the discoverability of this singular region's dispossessed genius.
All explained in the window immediately below. Followed — beneath this window — by scores of magnificent artists, each leading to myriads more artists/categories. Inside this window also may be found our Brazilian record store radio, named by British journal The Guardian as one of 10 of the Best Radio Stations Around the World!
IF YOU CAN'T STAND THE HEAT
Brazil is not a European nation. It's not a North American nation. It's not an East Asian nation. It straddles -- jungle and desert and dense urban centers -- both the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn. It absorbed over ten times the number of African slaves taken to the United States of America, and much of its aboriginal population was absorbed into the general population-at-large. Its people have lived under oligarchy, plutocracy, dictatorships and massive corruption, with elements of these still strongly entrenched today.
But!
Brazil has buzz...not the shallow buzz of a fashionable moment...but the deep buzz of a population which in spite of -- or perhaps because of -- the tough slog through life they've been allotted by humanity's dregs-in-fine-linen, have chosen not to simply pull themselves along but to lift their voices in song and their bodies in dance...to eat well and converse well and much and to wring the joy out of the day-to-day happenings and small pleasures of life which are so often set aside or ignored in the European, North American, and East Asian nations.
For this Brazil has a genius perhaps unparalleled in all other countries and societies, a genius which thrives alongside peeling paint and holes in the streets and roads, under bad organization by the powers-that-be, both civil and governmental, under a constant rain of societal indignities...
Which is all to say that if you don't know Brazil and you're expecting any semblance of order, progress and light, you will certainly find the light! And the buzz of a people who for generations have responded to privation at many different levels by somehow rising above it all.
Raimundo Sodré, in a conversation ranging from New Orleans to Harlem and the South Side of Chicago ... through Appalachia and Irish villages and Russian shtetls and the unofficial symbol of Brazil's Bahian-born national music (the pandeiro) almost certainly having arrived in Brazil in the hands of Sephardic Jews (including conversos) fleeing the Inquisition, once remarked: "Where there's misery, there's music!"
A pandeirista on the roof. And it's not just music. And it's not just Brazil.
