Noa has a voice that spreads joy and happiness. Her songs merge jazz, American rock and Middle-Eastern sounds, breaking every musical frontier. After her touching "Ave Maria" in Vatican and many appearances in international world-music festival, Achinoam Nini (Noa for everyone) has become a star of the world-music. "My parents went to the USA when I was only one", she said. "I lived in New York until I was 17, I studied at the High School and I had my early artistic experiences there. But one day I had an identity crisis and I felt as if my homeland was calling me. So I came back to Israel where I continued studying and did the military service. Afterwards I completed my studies to the Rimon School, a jazz and classic music school in Tel Aviv. Now I live not far from Tel Aviv and I couldn't ever live in another place". 

Thanks to her collaboration with the musician Gil Dor and with the American guitarist Pat Metheny, Noa had the chance to express all her natural talent. After a collection of songs entirely sang in Hebraic, she released Noa, the album that made her famous worldwide, and Blue touches blue, the most recent anthology that the singer promoted worldwide with her latest tour.

But what's the secret of such a peculiar voice? "I think my best inspiration is love", she replies. "Not the love of the catchy tunes, but a wider feeling that can go against all odds and give you the quietness".

Where do you find love and where does your research start from? "It was a surprise to me, it happened during a conflict between my mind and my instinct - she says -. My return to my roots solved the problem. In my homeland I found a place where my mind and my instinct could meet each other. A place that inspires me when I compose my music and sing. So I abandoned my anguish and I got the richest thing of the world: the love, of course". Also during her concerts Noa can communicate her sincere passion, with her gestures and her charming voice, full of sympathy. With this attitude, also the success of her marriage should be granted. "I knew my husband at the High School of New York, when I was 15 years old. We married ten years ago. We're often far away, but we're happy". 

Noa is a really thin and small girl, she has an innocent grace and a smile full of joy. Music was her maid since she was a child. At the age of 8 she used to sing standing over the tables of her house, entertaining her parents and friends. Today she still keeps the same innocence of those days: "Do you feel my emotion, my heart beating?", she asked joking to the audience during a concert in Turin. And starting from the first song of her latest album, If I give you everything, she began a delightful show.

While she's singing, Noa recalls childish memories, generated in the Bronx, where she wondered if the homeless people were some kind of angels. She reveals that it was at school, when she tried to learn the W, that she discovered she could see only one V. So she started using big spectacles... She remembers the meeting and the friendship with Gil Dor, that she knew during the College years, and she thinks about her frantic life that sometimes needs a pause to reflect and get new energy. 

Her repertory is halfway between American jazzy songs and Eastern melodies. And when she tastes all the Eastern flavors, dancing and singing, Noa does her best. Afterwards she sings "Beautiful that way", the soundtrack of Roberto Benigni's movie "Life is beautiful", and you can think that a song like this, sang in such a clear voice, is a real gift. Also the final greetings are a gift: Noa says "shalom", peace. A wish that revelas the attitude of a person who refuses hate and prejudice.