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"I feel like a sucker. The leadership has forgotten why it exists. The third election is a joke. I'm tired of the campaigns on the streets trying to buy me with lies. I don't know who to believe": Omri Glickman, leader of Hope 6, boils over politicians, talks about difficulties as an artist and talks about fear Abandoning the audience. Interview

Nir Yahav

Suddenly, at one moment, Omri Glickman, the leader of the "Hope 6" car leader, is serious. He takes a breath and shoots in bundles: "What bothers me in the country? We are ultimately unmanaged. Going to the third election and I feel sucker, I feel like I'm working, I feel that the leadership has forgotten why it exists, that politicians are no longer here from ideology, they are here Self-fulfillment. They don't really care about us. And here it is, proven. "

Glickman, who together with my sister founded the successful "Hope 6" reggae hip-hop composition 15 years ago, does not express much on political issues. The acute political crisis, which would have to be dragged into the polls for the third time in about a year, takes a lot of emotion and anger out of it. "This third election in my mind is a joke. It's something that should never happen. I don't know how we got into this thing. I'm tired of seeing all these campaigns on the streets trying to buy me with all kinds of lies and others. I don't know who to believe and why to believe. "It sucks me in the levels."

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For the full interview with Glickman, in which he talks about the difficulty of becoming an artist in Israel, about loneliness and his work with his sister:

The full interview with Omri Glickman, leader of "Hope 6":

The composition that Glickman leads is known as one of the happiest ensembles in Israel, and his performances have become synonymous with true music celebration. "I think the band is our opportunity to be happy," Glickman admits in an interview at Walla Studio! NEWS. "This is our home, this is where we all get into this kind of positive explosion of emotion, everything comes out, all with a smile, everything is fun, we enjoy performing, where all the positive. Obviously life itself is not the stage, but it is good that we have the stage to escape this reality ".

You start 2020 with a 360-degree winter tour, a big performance at the Tel Aviv Theater Club on January 30, a new song "Living on the Moon". What is the moon actually for you? A place to escape?

"Yes, the moon is a kind of idea, it's not a physical place even though I really like the moon itself. I think everyone - he has his moon. It's such a disconnect of consciousness, that is, I move from a state of concentration and presence in reality, in my life Everyday, to another world, to my world, where I imagine and create and write, is a place that is not judgmental and I have a lot of creative freedom there. "

Is it alone a place that is good for you or lonely for you?

"I am very attached to my own, very, very well with myself, I never feel alone. On the contrary - I even like it, I need it, I like to think and wander. Most of the time with myself I use it for writing or creating Or finding solutions, but mostly closing unsolved songs. "

How do you write songs?

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"That way, just the whole time. I mean, I don't have to sit down with a pen and a notebook. It's driving, it's on a trip, it's a second after I and you talk, it's constantly in my spare time that I'm not in any active action."

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Try to explain to me the secret of Hope 6's success especially among soldiers.

"I don't know, we perform a lot in front of soldiers. I once explained that music is our escape from reality and it really is that way. I think this joy we unleash on stage manages to unleash on the soldiers as well, because it is very uplifting, liberating music."

How has the success of the band changed you?

"The band has been around for over 15 years and over 15 years it comes out that I'm Omri from Hope 6 and I don't know who Omri is from Hope 6 so I believe there is some connection. I mean, I always represent this lineup."

You're also not a big fan of launches and stuff like that.

"Yes, I am less connected to this world. I think we all do. We do the music and for the music. I know that is an important part of the game, and when we have to cooperate. There is such a pleasant soulmate that we live in peace and are proud of and it is our good separation. We will give you everything, but at home we are at home. "

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How difficult is it to work with a nurse?

"That's the most popular question we get. It seems to me it's the most natural and right thing to do. We are forever partners, whether we want to or not, this is the most stable partnership, we are a family."

Didn't you fear it would lead to explosions? For quarrels?

"No, not really. The gap between me and mine is four years and four days, and we have a kind of twin relationship I think. We have telepathic thinking and we feel the same things, we also get along very well, see the same things, everyone knows too Whatever his job, we also rely heavily on each other. If there are challenges, it is not in this parameter of my partnership with mine. "

We talked about challenges. How difficult is it to be an artist in Israel?

"Really tough. Boy, musicians in Israel are real guitar heroes. It's a small industry, it's a small market, it's a small country, you go on tour, you finish it at half an hour. It's very challenging. You have to be active all the time and It's time to be relevant and popular, and it's all for holding and sustaining. "

There is the constant fear of every artist that the audience suddenly stops coming. Is this yours too?

"Obviously. In the end we do our art. We break down our personal lives, come to make happy, and not always be who it is. And it sucks and scary too."

Hope 6 will appear on January 30 at the Tel Aviv Theater Club

credits

Director: Nitai Barry, Styles Photography: Reuven Castro, Sound: Ilan Levy, Photographer: Shai Mechalof, Lighting: Yossi Adizas - Lightoyzen, Production: Hagit Barak and Shai Warker, Studio Design: Avichai Baruch, Video Editor: Nir Chen

Hope 6 (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Hope 6 at Walla Studio, January 6, 2020 (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Hope 6 (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Hope 6 at Walla Studio, January 6, 2020 (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Hope 6 (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Hope 6 at Walla Studio, January 6, 2020 (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Hope 6 (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Hope 6 at Walla Studio, January 6, 2020 (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Hope 6 (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Hope 6 at Walla Studio, January 6, 2020 (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Hope 6 (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Hope 6 at Walla Studio, January 6, 2020 (Photo: Reuven Castro)