{"id":33546,"date":"2019-11-01T03:58:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T10:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=33546"},"modified":"2019-11-01T08:56:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T15:56:32","slug":"aveva-plays-at-chutzpah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2019\/11\/01\/aveva-plays-at-chutzpah\/","title":{"rendered":"AvevA plays at Chutzpah!"},"content":{"rendered":"

AvevA and her band perform at the Rickshaw Theatre Nov. 14. (photo from Chutzpah!)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to performing for a new audience in Vancouver, and to seeing Vancouver for the first time,\u201d Israeli-Ethiopian singer-songwriter AvevA Dese \u2013 who goes by her first name \u2013 told the Independent<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The Rehovot-based musician will perform at the Rickshaw Theatre Nov. 14 as part of the Chutzpah! Festival. She will be coming with a band: Noam Israeli (drums), Nadav Peled (guitar) and Itamar Gov-Ari (keyboard). While in North America, the group will also perform in New York and Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Though AvevA has been singing since she can remember, she started songwriting in her teens. Her participation, in 2012, on the Israeli reality TV show The Voice<\/em> led her to Rimon School of Music, in Ramat Hasharon, a suburb of Tel Aviv. This, in turn, led the musician \u2013 who mainly listened to American soul music when she was a kid \u2013 to explore her roots. While AvevA was born in Israel, her parents made aliyah in 1984, having escaped civil war and famine in Ethiopia by making the weeks-long journey to a refugee camp in Sudan, from where they were brought to Israel as part of Operation Moses.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a process, trying to get in touch with my roots, my heritage,\u201d she said. \u201cAs a child, I wasn\u2019t interested in my heritage because I felt I had to choose either I\u2019m Ethiopian or I\u2019m Israeli. So, I chose Israeli because I wanted to fit in.<\/p>\n

\u201cGrowing up, I understood that I can be both, but I wasn\u2019t eager to learn and know about my Ethiopian roots \u2013 that acutely started through music. When I was at Rimon School of Music, I started singing in an ensemble called Afro-Pop, where the music we played was mostly African music, and I fell in love with it. That same year, I was invited to perform with the Idan Raichel Project, where I performed an Ethiopian song for the first time. I started collaborating with Ethiopian writers, I\u2019ve visited Ethiopia three times in the last four years, and I\u2019m still learning more each day.\u201d<\/p>\n

AvevA\u2019s discography includes the EP Who Am I<\/em>, which was released in November 2016, and the LP In My Thoughts<\/em>, released in March of this year. \u201cI\u2019m now working on some new songs that I can\u2019t wait to release,\u201d she said. \u201cI hope it will happen in 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n

AvevA said she generally begins composing on the guitar. \u201cI\u2019ll start jamming and, when I find something that I like, I just go with it and try to complete that idea into a song.\u201d However, she added, \u201cA song can change a lot in the process of recording and working with a producer. For example, my song \u2018Won\u2019t Let You\u2019 wasn\u2019t written before I started working with the producer Isaac DaBom. I had a whole different song that he didn\u2019t think was good enough, so he asked me to rewrite it and that\u2019s how I wrote \u2018Won\u2019t Let You.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

AvevA sings in English and Amharic (the national language of Ethiopia), and some of her songs use Ethiopian scales.<\/p>\n

\u201cEthiopian music is primarily based on a five-tone scale system, known as a pentatonic scale, and the Western scale generally consists of seven notes,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

AvevA said she feels no pressure to be a \u201cposter girl\u201d for Israel\u2019s openness to diversity. \u201cI don\u2019t feel that pressure,\u201d she stressed. \u201cI share my story and the way that I see things. In Israel, like in any other place, there are beautiful sides and there are ugly sides.\u201d<\/p>\n

B.C.-based Leila Neverland, in her trio Mountain Sound, opens for AvevA on Nov. 14, 8 p.m. For tickets to the concert \u2013 Rickshaw Theatre is a 19+ venue \u2013 and other Chutzpah! shows, visit chutzpahfestival.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AvevA and her band perform at the Rickshaw Theatre Nov. 14. (photo from Chutzpah!) \u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to performing for a new audience in Vancouver, and to seeing Vancouver for the first time,\u201d Israeli-Ethiopian singer-songwriter AvevA Dese \u2013 who goes by her first name \u2013 told the Independent. The Rehovot-based musician will perform at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[9279,573],"class_list":["post-33546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-aveva","tag-chutzpah-festival"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}