Harel Skaat

Harel Skaat is an Israeli singer and songwriter. He represented Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 with the song Milim .

Harel Skaat was born onAugust 1981, in Kfar Saba, Israel, to a family of Yemenite and Iraqi Jewish origins. When he was six years old, he won a national childrens festival competition entitled A Star for the Evening Singing Big in his hometown and while still a child he appeared in an episode of a popular Israeli television show called Parpar Nehmad . Throughout his youth, he continued to appear at festivals and television shows, and at the age ofhe was the lead singer of both the Kfar Saba city band and his high school band. At 18, he sang with the Israel Defense Forces Communications Corps. Band, where he met and became friends with singersongwriter, Dor Daniel. He attended Beit Zvi, a college specializing in the performing arts, where he was awarded two of the universitys most prestigious scholarships for his performances in schoolproduced musicals, including the outstanding achievement scholarship and the Sano Scholarship. While still in college, Skaat recorded and released

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