From the first bars of his album Bedroom Crimes one is caught up by the bittersweet melody of “Did You Really So No?” and the interweaving voices of Oren Lavie and Vanessa Paradis. The latter fell artistically in love with the former, which is not surprising when we know Lavie’s colorful background: author, songwriter, theater and video director.

It was in 2009, following the success of the music video for...

Born in Tel Aviv, Oren Lavie began to write songs before even learning to play the piano. Lavie's creativity and curiosity nourishes his ability to touch everything with equal talent, cultivating ways of reinventing himself. He lives today mainly in Tel Aviv but has spent many years traveling. At the age of 22 he left for London to study theater, wrote and directed several plays for which he also composed...