Two months ago, Amos Shimoni, the father of Kobi Shimoni (Subliminal), passed away after several years in poor health.
Subliminal, who has cared for his father for the past two years, is releasing a new song in his memory, "Keeping You," along with Osher Cohen.
"My father had kidney disease, and his medical condition has deteriorated in recent years," says Subliminal.
"He had heart surgery, and since Corona my two brothers and I have wrapped him up and literally built an inpatient array at home, with oxygen and nursing staff. We were with him at home around the clock. It was not easy because he had to be moved on dialysis and back during the plague. It was very difficult. The months "The last ones were really suffering for him. From September he dragged on just to be with us a little longer."
He said, "Fear of Dad's life is something that haunted me from childhood. Shortly before my bar mitzvah he had a heart attack and underwent complex bypass surgery. There was always another incident and another incident. He worked all his life, he was not one to drink, smoke and play snooker. "And it fell on him like thunder on a clear day. Suddenly your father the Superman is smashed and can barely move. Unfortunately, I know the smallest corridors of Tel Hashomer by heart."
Subliminal as a child with his father,
His father died just before he had time to celebrate his 80th birthday by the foreign date.
But on the day of the funeral, Kobi discovered that the miss he had been thinking about in his father's life had not really happened.
"It hurt me that he died a little before the age of 80 according to the foreign date, but he did celebrate 80 according to the Hebrew date," says Subliminal.
"We are a traditional family, and we believe that in the 80's it means that he gained heroism. I wanted to reach that age with him. He grew up an orphan from a father and did everything alone. He succeeded in life and raised a family to glory."
The pain over his father's death became the Israeli rapper's song.
"This is my therapy in life," he says.
"I pass through the filter of music everything I go through. This song was born in the most unique way that ever happened to me. It was even before Dad passed away. Osher Cohen is a good friend of mine, and we do a lot of things together. One day he jumped into my studio. We heard music, we ate, we laughed and then we said, 'Come on, let's do something together.' He gave the first chord with the keyboard - and I burst into tears, out of nowhere. It was two months before Dad died. Manages to lift his head and relax.While crying I started writing the first stanza of the song.
"It was a really exciting session, we wrote the house and the chorus together, we recorded a sketch while I was crying. After Dad passed away, I was supposed to release a new album called 'Free to Be Happy', and I really did not feel like releasing an album called that. So we did another session and added "A house for singing, from the point of view of a father who speaks to his son. And so 'Guarding You' was created. I have a thought of producing a mini-album around Dad's death, we'll see how I feel."
The audience of the subliminal rapper gets something completely different here.
"I think it's a subliminal that you once knew, my basics, my basic singing. The place of rejoicing and dancing is something I learned while running, and here I go back to the sources."
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