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Yael Naim
Yael Naim
French Musician
Born: Feb 6, 1978
France Life Me Music People You
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I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new. Yael Naim
Life Soul New Life Old Thought Real Life Knew New Am Real Then Figured Starting
Being from Israel and a Jew is complex already, but with France, there is a freedom and a mix of culture. I have met musicians from all over the world. Yael Naim
Freedom Musicians Culture World Met France Complex Over Israel Mix Being Jew
My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens. Yael Naim
Music Me Big Jazz Other Drake Nina Nina Simone Indian Indian Music Classical Joni Mitchell Well Mitchell Lot Personal Blues Influences Holiday Billie Holiday Include Nick
English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words. Yael Naim
Music Me You Words Language Free Live Imagination Paris Poetic French Limits Just Where Really English Play
As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express myself that well in talk, so I write songs. Yael Naim
Love Myself Sports People Sometimes Some People Some Write Songs Talk Wrote Well Always Cook Express Play
When I'd go to Israel, I felt like a tourist. My social and professional ties had started to dissolve, and it confused me. I didn't know whether I should stay here in Paris or go back to Israel, or even cut off all my ties with Israel so I could really plant roots here. Or maybe go somewhere else altogether. Yael Naim
Me Confused Plant Somewhere Else Back Dissolve Stay Paris Somewhere Else Could Had Tourist Like Know Ties Felt Altogether Israel Go Off Maybe Whether Social Cut Really Roots Should Professional Even Here Started
I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who signed me have no connection to Judaism or Israel. Yael Naim
Me People Hide Every Interview Say Signed Out No Connection Record Songs Put Judaism Israel Israeli Being Hebrew Who Connection
I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way. Yael Naim
You Pretentious Think Everything Way Paris Had Perfectly Like Opposite Arrived Years Years Ago Goes Just Famous Wanted Then Planned Fast
Usually when a song comes to me, I don't ask a lot of questions; I hear something, and I just let it out in song. It's like making a salad. Everything I hear, and everything I am, I mix together in a different way in each song. Yael Naim
Me Together Song Everything Way Out Something Like Making Am Mix Salad Hear Lot Questions Just Different Ask Each Different Way
I like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what I usually listen to. Yael Naim
Extreme Songs Like Sing Covers Listen Ends
I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs. Yael Naim
Music Religion You People Song Country Finding Point Songs Between Like Another Same Just Common Basically

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