"I heard that he said he would have been happy to share the prize with me": this is how Tamir Kalisky reacted to winning a consolation prize
In response to the consolation prize of the Acomm award for life's work, his former partner to Walla! Tarbut says: "I feel that the award given to Zeev is also mine.
Stealing in my ears that Zeev said he would be happy if I shared the award with him on stage.
I would agree to go on stage with him"
Sagi Ben Nun
03/08/2022
Wednesday, August 03, 2022, 13:49 Updated: 14:08
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Ethnics (writer: Sagi Ben Nun, photographer: Avi Cohen)
"I feel that the award given to Zeev is also mine, and it steals my ears that Zeev said that he would be happy if I shared the award with him on stage. If they gave me the award with Zeev, I would agree to go on stage with him" -
that's what Lavala said!
The culture of the composer and music producer Tamir Kalisky, who was one of the cornerstones of the band Ethnics, in response to the awarding of the Acomm Lifetime Achievement Award to his former partner, Zeev Nechama.
The announcement of Nechama winning the Lifetime Achievement Award caused some confusion in the industry, as Ethnics is Nechama's - and Tamir's - life's work. Kalisky was one of the founders of the band and who together with Nechama created dozens of its hits. As I recall, in the middle of the previous decade, the two quarreled, Kalisky was removed from the group, and the disputes reached the court. In a conversation with Walla! Also sent congratulations to his former partner.
Tamir Kalisky, don't you think it's strange that AKUM gives a lifetime achievement award to Zeev Nechama alone and not to the
original Ethniks which includes you?
Today I separate the artistic and legal matters, it's Zeev's day and we have to concentrate on Zeev. I think that Israeli music has received an award."
But why is Zeev alone and not with you, after all, without you there would be no Etnics.
"There is a committee, it made a decision and that's fine. In our reality they say what the hell. I'm not in this place. It steals my ears that Zeev said he would be happy if I shared the award with him on stage."
Did the AKUM committee grope with you if you would agree to accept the award with Ze'ev?
"Nobody talked to me.
As Shimon Peres said - I am not involved in this.
He accepted and we congratulate him."
"I don't deal with that."
Ethnics band (photo: photo processing, public relations)
This move is especially puzzling in a body like AKUM
which is supposed to take care of the creators and not the performers, don't you think?
I'm in a great place in my life.
What's more, Zeev himself said that he thought I deserved to be next to him on stage.
What the committee decided - she decided.
So they decided.
OK.
I don't say this out of diplomacy.
What we sign together cannot be taken away from me.
Everyone can decide what they want."
If they gave you both the award, would you go up on stage with him, take a picture with him and shake his hand with a smile?
"For me, unequivocally - yes.
That doesn't mean I don't feel hurt by what was done to me.
I am a part of it, no matter if it is written, if I received it literally or metaphorically.
It does not matter.
I live with it in peace."
And when will we see your comeback to the band?
"I really don't deal with it. It's not on the agenda. I'm in a different place. Doing other things. On this day, you don't need to deal with me except with the joy of a wolf. I don't want to take the focus to me."
In the legal arena you had more losses than victories against Nechama.
"I don't want to comment on that. It's a holiday."
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