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Kobi Oshrat

Israeli composer and conductor (born 1944)

Summary

Israeli composer and conductor (born 1944)

Field	Value
name	Kobi Oshrat
image	Kobi Oshrat.jpg
native_name	קובי אשרת
native_name_lang	he
birth_name	Yaakov Ventura

birth_date
birth_place	Haifa, Mandatory Palestine
origin	Haifa, Israel
genre	Israeli rock, Israeli pop
instrument	Electric guitar
past_member_of	Northern Command Band, Milk and Honey

יעקב ונטורה Kobi Oshrat (; born July 15, 1944) is an Israeli composer and conductor. He composed and conducted the winning entry at the 1979 Eurovision Song Contest Hallelujah sung by the vocal ensemble Milk and Honey.

Biography

Yaakov (Kobi) Ventura (later Kobi Oshrat) was born in Haifa to parents who had immigrated from Salonika. After an early career on the Israeli stage, in 1969 he began composing and arranging music for radio, TV, film and advertisements, with his first hit arriving that same year. Oshrat achieved international fame when his composition, Hallelujah, sung by the Israeli group Milk and Honey, won the 1979 Eurovision Song Contest. Oshrat has written more than 1000 songs, but Hallelujah is his most famous, with 400 cover versions of it around the world.

Oshrat also composed and conducted the 1985 and 1992 Israeli entries. He conducted the 1987 and 1991 Israeli entries but did not write the music for them.

References

(2018). ""הללויה": קובי אשרת על תמלוגי העתק, הפגישה עם אבבא וסערת עדן בן זקן".
"⁨אבק כוכב<ם⁩ — ⁨⁨היום (תל אביב)⁩ 17 אוקטובר 1969⁩ — הספרייה הלאומית של ישראל │ עיתונים".
[http://www.jewishnews.net.au/honouring-a-resistance-hero/26688 Honouring a resistance hero, Australian Jewish News]{{Dead link. (June 2025)

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