| Chaim Shemesh | |
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| Background information | |
| Website | http://www.chaimshemesh.com/ |
Chaim Shemesh (Hebrew: חיים שמש Born Jaimi Shams in 1959) is an Israeli music producer and manager. Shemesh was born in São Paulo, Brazil. He started his way in the music business as a lighting and sound engineer. After three years of studying sound in New York, Shemesh started working as Yair Nitzani's personal assistant. Nitzani was CEO of record company Hed Artzi (one of the "big three" in Israel) at the time. Through his work in Hed Artzi, Shemesh produced some of the most influential records created in the Israeli music business. In 1997 Mr. Shemesh started a record company called Sunshine Records (the meaning of the word Shemesh in Hebrew is sun) which was active up until 2001 and produced albums for Assaf Amdursky, Yahli Sobol and more. In 2002 Shemesh joined the record company NMC (also one of the "big three") where he managed the Hebrew music department. Some of Shemesh's scoutings were: HaYehudim, Aviv Geffen, Evyatar Banai, Taarovet Escot, Efrat Gosh and Yoni Bloch.