From “Love” to “So and so and so”, from “Playing and Singing” to “Ahovi Lev Adom”: Usher Cohen opened his series of concerts at the Tel Aviv Hall and proved to all the people who are tickling that he is here to stay • With a reminder of the painful reality we are experiencing, surprising hospitality and an audience of 11,000 people that literally rocked the hall • What did we still feel was missing? | Performance review
It is needless to mention that this is one of the most difficult periods that the State of Israel is going through since its establishment. These are different and painful days, and even when we try to disconnect for a moment from the shocking reality in which we have been living for over five months, it slaps us in the face and reminds us of the hard truth. After all, you can’t really run away.
Last night (Tuesday), at Usher Cohen’s concert at the Menorah Hall, we received several more shocking reminders: from the fact that all the workers wore the yellow hatofim symbol, through the stage that was entirely designed in the shape of the symbol itself, to this moment before the start of the show, when the song was played in the hall, “We are more We will go back to dancing”, which was written about the massacre in Nova.
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I have to admit that until a little over a year ago, at the beginning of the phenomenon called “Osher Cohen”, I was quite skeptical about him and I wasn’t sure how long the success would last. Now, with a large number of hits behind him, taking over the top of the charts and collaborations with some of the leading artists in Israel – we can say that Usher Cohen is really not a passing phenomenon. At the age of only 25, Cohen stands in the first rank of Mediterranean pop singers in Israel. It is no exaggeration to say that he is almost at their head.
And if I needed confirmation of my claim, I got it yesterday: with 11,000 fans in the audience, at the first show in the hall out of three – all of which recorded an extremely fast “sold-out” – I realized how big the phenomenon is. One by one, Cohen performed the huge hits “Ahava”, “Kakaka Vakaka”, “Thumi Shishi”, “Ahovi Lev Adom” and more. If you had any doubt – the whole hall screamed the words with piety that literally shook the hall.
“I missed him so much that my body hurts,” Cohen said excitedly to all the people who came to see him, including Noa Kirel and Omer Adam. Like that, in a small way. “I will start by saying that the performance is dedicated to you from the bottom of my heart, but also to all those who could not be here because they are busy with the war. With God’s help, this will end and all the abductees will return home.” Amen.
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