Akum Awards: Yehudit Ravitz and Ze'ev Nechama will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award; Discovery of the Year - Nuno

The award committee chose Tuna's "Wild Mizrah" as the album of the year, Narkis' "Going with you" as the song of the year and Keren Pels as the composer of the year.

Special awards for contribution to the singer and Hebrew and to Israeli culture will also be given to musician and school president Rimon Yehuda Ader and to the pioneering production company of the Reuvani brothers.

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03/08/2022

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The musicians Yehudit Ravitz and Ze'ev Nechama are the winners of the Acomm Lifetime Achievement Award for the year 2021/2 - this was announced today (Wednesday).

Ravitz has been one of the leading figures in Israeli music since the late 1970s, and behind her a host of songs and albums that entered the local pantheon. "Yehudit Ravitz She is almost synonymous with the nomenclature of Israeli music", the judges justified their choice to award her the award named after Naomi Shemer, "with a clear and precise voice, hard work and humility, spectacular compositional talent and meticulous musical productions - Ravitz is a central partner in the creation of the Israeli soundtrack.

During her extensive career, Ravitz composed songs by poets that, thanks to their beautiful and catchy melodies, became common hymns.

Being a successful singer who also creates and produces many of her songs, Ravitz has been a model and inspiration for many singers and creators over the years."

Nechama, the leader of the band Ethnics and one of the prominent designers of local pop in recent decades, won the corresponding award named after Ehud Manor.

"Zev Nechama is an original and unique creator who has signed dozens of huge hits. From the beginning, both as part of the Ethnics band and in his work for others, Nechama managed to combine in a wonderful and innovative way between East and West, between guitars and synthesizers, between dark songs and summer hits that millions know how to sing. His writing is Nechama's on the topics of reconciliation, love of people and the pursuit of peace, and it can be said that his songs, which are still loved to this day, actually contributed to the bringing together of strata and populations," stated the panel of judges.

Synonymous with Israeli music.

Judith Ravitz (Photo: Ariel Bashor)

An original and unique creator.

Zeev Nechama (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Along with this, it was also announced that special awards for contribution to the Hebrew singer and to Israeli culture would be given to the musician Yehuda Ader and the Reuvani brothers.

Ader, a former member of the Nahal band, a member of the bands Tamuz and Doda, and a prominent music producer, is also one of the founders of the "Rimon" school and its first director, and in this context "cultivated generations of artists", as the judges reasoned. The Reuvani Brothers Company, managed by Meir Reuvani, is a Pioneering productions that played a central role in the development of oriental music in Israel from the 1970s onward. Under their patronage, artists flourished such as the recent Israel Prize laureate Avihu Medina, Ahuva Ozeri, Zion Golan, Itzik Kala, Shimi Tabori, Avner Gadsi, Margalit Tsenani, Zohar Argov, Tslili HaKerem , Haim Moshe, Daklon and others. "Their contribution to the Mediterranean music genre and its development is great and is a milestone for many creators and artists in the field," the judges stated.

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A new sound for Israeli pop.

Nono (Photo: Amit Selector)

Along with these awards, this year at a ceremony to be held at the beginning of September, awards will also be given for the discovery of the year, the album of the year, the song of the year, the lyricist of the year, the composer of the year and the arranger of the year.

Naomi Aharoni Gal - aka the pop sensation Nono - was chosen as the discovery of the year (the award named after Inbal Perlmutter).

"For a long time, there has not been a success similar to that of Nuno. A success that sweeps adults and children, radio and Tiktok behind her. You can say that she captured the hearts of the shapers of public opinion and the audience - alike," stated the judges, who noted the original and surprising humor of her songs, and emphasized that They bring "a new sound to Israeli pop - fast, intense and broken, and at the same time catchy, intriguing and addictive".

In addition, the committee chose to award the album achievement award of the year to rapper Tuna for his album "Wild East", and the song achievement award of the year named after Moshe Wilensky to Narkis, for singing "Going with you".

To the credit of Tuna's album, the judges especially noted "sharpened, poignant and critical writing, a flowing flow that is more exciting than ever, and a musical production that creates a whole world that is pleasant, but also gripping and shaking to dive into".

Regarding Narkis's singing, the judges emphasized that it was "an engrossing and hit song, which was a huge success and exposed Narkis to audiences who had not yet known her up to that point", and defined the singer as someone who is "at the center of the Israeli pop industry".

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Three additional awards were given for many achievements throughout the last period, and the judges did not emphasize a specific work of theirs in the reasons for the decision, but mainly an assessment of their cumulative work.

Thus, Ron Beaton ("Movet", "Madhouse", "Trilly Tarella") won the achievement award of the year for the author named after Yossi Banai;

Keren Pels won the Achievement of the Year award for a composer named after Sasha Argov, among other things, after she was a partner in the creation of the huge hits of her son, Raviv Kenar;

Vinon Yahal won the Year's Achievement Award for the Yair Rosenblum arranger, among other things, after he produced Narkis's "Going Away From You", which was selected as Akoum's song of the year.

At the ceremony, Akoum will also celebrate the most played songs throughout the period - "The Reason for the Reasons" of the Hebrew Yishai Rivo as well as "Bad Habits" by the foreigner Ed Sheeran.

The judging committee included the songwriter Mirit Shem Or, herself a recipient of the Akum Award for Lifetime Achievement last year; the singer Aden Hasson, who was chosen as Composer of the Year last year; the musician Peter Roth, Akum's Discovery of the Year for the year 2016; Visbin Yashvi, the chief music editor of Galagats.

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