We will come later to the surname of Nadav Dlomi, which sounds familiar to the readers of these lines.
But even if his family lineage (or the connection to an Israeli singer who broke through almost a decade and a half ago) requires delay, his personal story and that of "All the heroes have left", the album he released this week, stands on its own.
Dolomi, 46, works as a labor law attorney.
He has already released several albums in the past, but will admit himself that he has not fully considered music as a major path in his life, while he leaves the stage and the spotlight to his sister.
In the new record, he took his music a few steps further, and recorded a concept album.
One that deals with four characters who have their own story, and all of them together create a mosaic of current Israel.
You know, the fractured, divided and all that jazz.
"It took a while for me to believe in myself within the music", he admits, and also explains why he felt it was time to create an album with a plot, guests and God to protect - even a statement.
"I think it came from a feeling that we live too much in an age of plastic," he adds.
"I released singles and it's not that nothing happened with them, but I felt that they didn't tell a story, they weren't connected in some kind of chain. At the same time, I started to feel that the ground was shaking under our feet, and in this respect this whole album is some kind of counter movement against everything that is happening in the world today. It An album that tries to connect, not separate. It is a combination of my personal biography and the lives of all of us."
Speaking of "the earth is shaking", what do you think about the reform of the judicial system?
"It's really bad. I'm speaking from the lawyer's hat for a moment. The correct reform is to simply add a thousand more judges and at the same time create a mechanism that will weed out bad judges. But this plan only leaves us with an executive authority and this is not a democracy."
What do you think can be done at this point?
"Protest non-stop and say things as they are, don't wash them away. I simply ask myself how this program advances our lives - in terms of livelihood, health and security - in any way. What has the Supreme Court ever damaged in these areas? You see a lot of demagoguery and a lot Headlines from above, and every time you try to go down with the other side to the resolution of the details, the facts, and the rulings, it fades away. You also hear a lot of times 'but wait, the court system never agreed to reform'. That is true and it is the duty of this system, but so much It is clear that what needs to be done is to come together - all the parts of our society and find some kind of broad common denominator."
The four characters that "All the Heroes Left" deals with are: Ben, a rough young man;
Sofa - an elderly demented immigrant at the end of her days;
A convert by the name of Vared who faces a condescending attitude from the environment, and David Rahab - a member of the Knesset who entered political life out of idealism and a desire to change, and found himself mired in a corrupt system.
In the album you can hear the voices of Rivka Michaeli, Shai Avivi, Asi Levy, Rachel Yaron and Liat Zion.
Everyone, even if they didn't know Dlomi before, was enthusiastic about the project when they got to know him.
And those who want to delve further into the story will be able to do so through a ten-minute podcast of each of the characters, which accompanies the project and has been uploaded to Spotify.
The album he has his eyes on and the rest from which he drew inspiration, says Dlomy, is "Nebraska" by Bruce Springsteen.
A classic that deals with the lives of small people on the fringes of American society, who are trampled daily by a hierarchy of power.
"I wrote the album during the Corona period and it was a very present thing, old people", Nadav explains the inspiration for the characters.
"The figure of the repentant woman, for example, was created because I felt that the religious community was being demonized and that injustice was being done here by the flattening of the discourse."
Roni Dalomi, photo: Ella Barak
And now about the last name.
As you can guess at this point, Nadav is the brother of Roni Dlomi, the sensation "A star is born" who became an active and beloved singer in the local industry.
In the face of her success, it seemed that her older brother preferred to follow his own path.
Until now that is.
"I think I'm an enlightened type," he explains.
"It's not that I don't like being a lawyer, I like the field and I think I'm also good at it. But I think that in terms of wanting to do music I just buried it. At a certain point you start to write more and more intuitively. Maybe her breakthrough spurred me on Songs out. It's an inspiration.
The next obvious question is why didn't your sister take part in the album?
"I think I made sure to separate my work from Roni's because this title, 'brother of', is something that could be taken down. I've been doing my thing for ten years now and I'm very careful not to connect us, to do it independently. Although in the current project it might have been appropriate, I think there was something more correct in this separation. But we sang together at a 'larger than life' event and I don't rule out recording something together in the future. With great joy."
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