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Kobi Oshrat

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Aliases
קובי אשרת
Real name
Yaakov Ventura
Born
July 15, 1944
Country
Israel
IPI
00064927944 6 works
Affiliation
ACUM
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(Hebrew: קובי אשרת) Composer and arranger from Haifa. After an early career on the Israeli stage, in 1969 he began composing and arranging music for radio, TV, film and advertisements. Oshrat achieved international fame when his composition, Hallelujah, sung by the Israeli group Milk and Honey, won the 1979 Eurovision Song Contest. Oshrat has written more than 1000 songs, but Hallelujah is his most famous, with 400 cover versions of it around the world.
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Covers by Kobi Oshrat

Title Performer Release date Originally by
{AHAREY SHEHALAKHT} (Kobi Oshrat, Coby Recht) March 7, 2013 Bill Withers
{ANI NIZRAK RAK MIMEKH} (Kobi Oshrat, Coby Recht) March 7, 2013 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain Ramona REC, William Gaxton & Ethel Merman PRF
{DVARIM MISHTANIM} (Kobi Oshrat, Coby Recht) March 7, 2013 Bob Dylan
{HOLEKH LISHON} (Kobi Oshrat, Coby Recht) March 7, 2013 The Kinks REC, The Applejacks [GB] REL
{HALELUYA} (Kobi Oshrat, Coby Recht) March 7, 2013 Leonard Cohen
{Hamikhtav} (Kobi Oshrat, Coby Recht) March 7, 2013 The Box Tops
{Ani hoshev alayikh kol hazman} (Kobi Oshrat, Coby Recht) March 7, 2013 Gwen McCrae REL, Brenda Lee REC
{Yain ham} (Kobi Oshrat, Coby Recht) March 7, 2013 Nancy Sinatra with Lee Hazlewood
{KO YEHIRA} (Kobi Oshrat, Coby Recht) March 7, 2013 Carly Simon
{LETSIDI} (Kobi Oshrat, Coby Recht) March 7, 2013 Ben E. King - Arr. & Cond. by Stan Applebaum
{Mayim Rabim Lahatzot} (Kobi Oshrat, Coby Recht) March 7, 2013 Jimmy Cliff
{SHIKUY AHAVA MISPAR 9} (Kobi Oshrat, Coby Recht) March 7, 2013 The Clovers
{Ten lilkot et hashemesh} (Kobi Oshrat, Gali Atari, Ruthi Navon, Eli Magen, Alona Turel) 1975 Peter Yarrow

Songs written by Kobi Oshrat

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