Adi Ran

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Adi Ran (Hebrew: עדי רן‎), born in 1961, Ramat Gan, Israel, is an Israeli singer, musician, lyricist and composer. Adi Ran rose to fame after the 2005 release of the film Ushpizin whose soundtrack featured two of his older songs, Atah Kadosh and Yesh Rak HaKadosh Baruch Hu.

1 Biography
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[edit] Biography

Adi Ran started off his career as coordinator in the Ramat Gan tribe of the Israeli scouts. Later, he would attract a loyal group of fans after starting to perform in Tel Aviv pubs on the local underground music scene. In 1993, Ran became baal teshuva^[1] and continued his music career heavily influenced spiritually by Breslov Hasidism in a new genre that he perhaps created and which he remains unique, Hasidic Underground, or also known as Alternative Hasidic. His music is influenced by Israeli singers Meir Ariel, Arik Einstein, Shalom Hanoch and foreign acts like Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd.