Jacko Eisenberg

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Jacko Eisenberg
Background information
Born	November 30, 1980 Natanya, Israel
Genre(s)	Rock Rap
Label(s)	Hed Arzi
Associated acts	Jamus

Jacko Eisenberg (born November 30, 1980) is an Israeli singer that won the fourth season of Kochav Nolad, the Israeli version of Pop Idol.

[edit] Biography

Eisenberg was born and raised in Natanya, a son to Mirian and Robert Eisenberg. When he was 10 years old, his father died of a heartattack after the Gulf war. At the age of 13, he started performing at school ceremonies. He was graudated in the Eldad High School in Natanya and then started to create music and learned how to play piano, guitar, drums and bass and started touring with Jamus, his hip hop band with Guy Eliahu. At the same time, he was waitressing and worked as a weddings singer. In 2003, he released the album "Sim Tarosh Batsad" (Calm Yourself) with Jamus.

Eisenberg shirked from a service at the Israeli Defence Forces, and declared himself a pacifist.

In May 2006, his roomate signed him into Kochav Nolad, there, he won the final on September 7, beating Maya Rotman and Refael Mirila, singing "Ani Meabed Otakh" (Losing You) and "Nirdam Al Ha'Olot" (Falling Asleep on the Sand) with Ninet Tayeb.

[edit] After Kochav Nolad

A while after the winning he arouse a scandal, after he expressed problematically about shirking from the IDF and the exposure of a song he recorded with Jamus, named "Medina Zona, Medina Motsetset" (Country of Whores, Country of Suckers). He was confiscated in public, and dissappeared. He returned to the Israeli music bussiness in 2007, releasing "Kashe Li Lo Le'itragesh" (It's Hard Not to be Excited) with Maya Rotman for the fifth season of Kochav Nolad. The song became a big hit in Israel peaking number one in the main Israeli charts.

In January 1, 2008, he released a debut album after his name. The singles from it were "Shar Shar" (Singing), "Tsoreakh" (Screaming) and "Nirdam Al Ha'Olot" (Falling Asleep on the Sand).