Biography

He is an Israeli singer-songwriter, composer and lyricist, known for Israeli classics as Latet, Halevai, At Li Laila, Pamela, Lashir Itach, Kol Od, Mi Yada Shekach Yihiyeh, K'Shetavo (written for Ron Arad), Im at Adain Ohevet Oti and Etzli Hakol Beseder.

He has participated in many song contests, and won the Viña del Mar Festival Song in 1977.

Many of his songs are acoustic rock, Andalusian chords, soul music and oud type songs, blended with Israeli folk, Judeo-Yemenite and Pop overtones.

His brother Yoel Sharabi is a Hasidic and Yemenite entertainer for Jewish communities abroad.

Sharabi lives in Caesarea, and has been married three times. In the 1970s, he married Liora. After their divorce, he married Helen, a drug addict who committed suicide in 1991. In 2002, he married Pnina Tzadok, who was three decades his junior, and they had a son who was born in December 2004. They divorced in 2006.