Today’s Enlightening Entertainment will be presented in Hebrew and English, with subtitles in Arabic, Aulacese (Vietnamese), Chinese, English, French, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Mongolian, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Thai.

A man is a human being And time is a time out Building his world, Blossoming in his garden

For over 30 years, Mr. David Broza has enthralled fans worldwide with his one-of-a-kind music, a fusion of blues, folk, flamenco, and traditional Israeli sounds.

He has been sharing his God-given talents in sold-out shows worldwide, collaborated with some of the world’s greatest musicians, and set to music the lyrics of the finest poets. Born and raised in Israel, David Broza has also spent different periods of his life living in Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and thus has the ability to express himself in three languages: Hebrew, Spanish, and English.

By the age of 21, Mr. David Broza had a large fan base in his home country of Israel. Since then, he has risen to international stardom. Media praise for this multi-platinum artist is always glowing. The New York Post in the US declared, “To see Broza in concert is to be mesmerized,” while The New York Times asserted, “The richness of his language, the imagery and (his) overall meaning stand uncompromised.”

We came here under the sky Two Like a pair of eyes I love my music, I love performing. It's obviously, there's a spirit that is guiding me. There is a holiness to it, it's something that is like I connect with places that are very deep and very high, thanks to the music and the poems. I'm a spirit. So needless to say I connect with people in their spirits.

His popularity had soared with his best-selling quadruple platinum album, “The Woman by My Side.” In 2002, David Broza won a Spanish ATV Award for Best Musical Score for the song “Padre Coraje” (Father Courage). In 2009, he received the Royal Medal of Honor from His Majesty King Juan Carlos of Spain for his dedication to Israeli-Spanish relations through music and promotion of tolerance.

In 2008, the song performed by Mr. Broza, “The Secret Life of Small Things,” was nominated for the prestigious Goya Award, Spain’s main national film honor.

Song title: The Secret Life of the Small Things
Singer: David Broza
To each beacon its light To each voice its name
There is no lesser light There is no lesser voice
To each sun its shine And in every shadow, wall to rest
At last to rest It has reasons deep and mysterious
The secret life of the little things

His unique style has been shaped by Israeli singer songwriters, Spanish flamenco players, and famous American folk musicians like Simon and Garfunkel and Bob Dylan. The artist, however, attributes most of his musical success to his family.

My mother was Israel’s folk singer, first folk singer with a guitar, so needless to say she already brought it into the house. Both my parents were music lovers. Music was always part of our background and home. We always sang together, my mother, father, sister and I, we all did harmonies and loved to spend time singing, and listening to each other.

I think that's the main influence on the way I take music. I take it very, very much as a way of life. I'm very grateful and thankful to the background that I came from. I think it's the biggest source of inspiration and light in my life.

In a beautiful collaboration, Mr. Broza and Palestinian composer Mr. Said Murad created a sweetly sorrowful yet hopeful peace song titled “Belibi” (In My Heart).

About eight years ago, I suggested we write a song together. Just how unlikely that an Israeli and a Palestinian would write actually a song together... So we wrote this beautiful song, it’s called “Belibi” (In My Heart) and it’s a really an ode to our land, and to our countries. We created a beautiful harmonious track with it, which was something of a miracle.

“Belibi” (In My Heart) was performed for a documentary produced by “Search for Common Ground” by the Israeli artist himself with singer Mr. Wissam Murad from the Palestinian music group Sabreen, along with two children’s choirs, one Israeli and the other Palestinian.

The special song was also performed in a concert at the ancient Israeli king’s palace with Palestinian singer Ebrahim Eid and the Neve Shalom/ Wahat al-Salam Israeli-Palestinian School Choir.

In my heart In my body In my spirit In my bosom Our land
You are our blood You are our soul You are our lives

In my heart In my body In my spirit In my bosom Our land
You are in my blood You are in my soul You are with me

One of David’s unique trademarks is putting poetry to music, as in his most recent musical endeavor called “Night Dawn.” All the lyrics on the album are actually poems by the American poet Townes Van Zandt.

Okay, this is called “Night Dawn.”

The winds of change turned Strong and strange
I leave my childhood behind Till I spy the light of day
Dreaming of treasures to find If I had a silver dollar
Spend it on the one I love If it’s stuck in a lonesome holler
I wish it on the mourning dove

That’s what’s so beautiful about connecting with poetry. And I think that even the symbolic title, “Night Dawn,” which is the start of a new day, it’s like the awakening, the enlightenment. So all these things are very beautiful.

I use music as my main source of communication, because I’ve chosen many years ago to write music and poetry. So when I compose poems by Israeli poets, or poems by American poets, poems by Spanish poets, I am thankful to the music that I can put together, to the authentic Spanish and authentic American poetry. I can communicate directly with an American audience, even though my mother tongue is Hebrew. I’m not putting an act on.

I am playing myself and I’m very lucky I’m an artist. I can definitely get to places which my imagination and my energy allow me to get to. I don’t study it, I live it. I assimilate, I come to the Midwest, I go to the Deep South, I spent time there. I don’t come to study it. I come to absorb it.

So my latest proof of that is my collaboration on Townes Van Zandt’s “Unpublished Poetry,” which is really what I believe is being the, the highlight of my quest here in the United Stated to connect through something so local, so American as Townes Zandt’s lyrics & poetry. I’ve worked on American albums, Spanish albums, Israeli. These are all my fruits of my vision and my inspiration and I enjoy all of them. I just love performing to myself, to my friends, to my audiences.

We came here under the sky Two Like a pair of eyes We have got time under the sky In the meantime We are still here You and me You and me You and me Through his broad life experiences, Mr. David Broza has come to deeply understand the importance of respect and tolerance and thus has devoted himself to many humanitarian projects, including with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

Well my main two, let’s say, fields of interest, that I enjoy committing myself and my time to – one is, a very important one, is the developing of conflicts resolution programs, educational programs for young people and for older people. It’s a perfect place to build, and to create these programs where, the hurting souls can meet and perhaps try to utilize these grounds to create a better future and overcome their pain.

And I support many, many organizations that deal with that in Israel. And of course, my work with my Palestinian partners, in part is my own way of practicing it, in real time, and not just supporting it. And the other thing is my concerns for the handicapped. As a matter of fact, one of my last projects is working with a theater called Nalaga'at, which is a center for the deaf and blind. These are super important.

Whether through volunteer work or benefit concerts, Mr. Broza commits much of his extra time in service for a better society. His hit song, “Yihyeh Tov” (Things Will Be Better), became the anthem of the “Peace Now” movement.

It’s a peace song and it’s a song that was inspired by the visit of Egypt’s President Anwar El Sadat (in) 1977 to Israel. And my friend and partner soul mate, Yonatan Geffen, a great Israeli poet, wrote the words and asked me to write the music. And that was the first song and it’s still one of my most important songs in my career.

While absorbing other cultures of the world, Mr. Broza remains an ambassador for his beautiful homeland, Israel, and her culture.

What's unique about Israeli culture is the diversity. There’s 120 or more cultures all migrated to one place, you know in the Middle East, it's Israel. And they're all Jewish, but they're all from the Falashas, and Ethiopia, to the Jews from India, to Jews from Morocco, to Jews from Poland, to France, from US, from all over. Even from Chicago, you know? And they all bring their own traditional musicality, each have their own blues.

And when we get a band together they will naturally all come from different corners of the world, and they make music together. And that's something that's very unique. It's very, very unique, it's very, very special. And so the outcome is, after many years of becoming our own thing, the language is progressing, the culture's taking shape, then it becomes something evidently just like a flower out there, on the bloom, very different, shining, really shining.

We applaud your musical brilliance and harmonious ideals, superstar from Israel Mr. David Broza. May your message of peace resound throughout the world, as your music moves hearts toward greater love and understanding.

You are the salt of the sea The light and the truth

The salt and the sea That is you

The truth and the light Awake or dreaming
In my eyes, in my feelings You are my love

The truth and the light Happy or sad
In my eyes In my feelings You are my love
The truth and the light Happy or sad
In my eyes In my feelings You are my love

Our world In my body In my soul In my bosom
Our land You are in my blood In my soul
You are with me The truth and the light Awake or dreaming
In my eyes, in my feelings You are my love

You are my love

It was wonderful of you to share your time with us on Enlightening Entertainment. Please stay tuned to Supreme Master Television for Words of Wisdom, next after Noteworthy News. May all your noble dreams come true! Mr. David Broza’s music is available at www.DavidBroza.net and Amazon.com