Band

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Assaf "Sammy" Ganzman

Was born in Haifa Israel in 1969.

His family relocated to New York city in 1972.

Assaf started to take guitar lessons at age nine.

When he was twelve he went to the studio and recorded an album of Beatles and Eagles covers.

After winning a local talent contest with an original song called "Witches Night Out".

His carly influences were: The Rolling Stones, Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel and Aerosmith.

When Assaf was 15 his family moved back to Israel and situated in Jerusalem.

In those days Assaf was the singer of a local band called "Skoop" that did mostly pop rock covers, Dire Straits, Duran Duran, what can you say it was the 80"s…

At age 17 Assaf joined a local band called "China Black" wich had moderate seccess.

This band was responsible for getting him back to his Rock'n'Roll roots.

When he was 19 Assaf was drafted into The Israel Defense Force, where he was Drill Sergeant in a fighting unit.

After finishing his service with an honorable discharge he put together a band called "Noah's Ark". They played regularly at the UNDERGROUND in Jerusalem.

At age 22 Assaf moved to Nashville Tennessee to rejoin his friends from "China Black".

While living in Tennessee Assaf was not active musically in any bands but did allot of listening and practicing.

At age 23 he moved to Darien CT for one year.

When he was 25 he decided to move back to Jerusalem, where he met Daniel Kriman and started playing blues.

They formed SOBO soon after. During this time Assaf also played in other local bands: Aliens, Blue Steel, Sammy Secret Soiree.

Today Assaf lives in Modein, he owns a bar named

Daniel "SOBO Dan" Kriman

Was born in St. Petersburg, Russia in March 1973.

Lives in Jerusalem, Israel.

Began to play guitar at the age of 12. Had studied piano for five years. Could play trumpet as well.

Hi started his musical career in high school as a bass player.

In college his band "COSA NOSTRA" already appeared in some festivals in St. Petersburg, Tallinn and Moscow.

The biggest one was underground festival "Rock-Siroc" that took place in Moscow in 1991.

In the winter of 1992 Daniel made his move to the Holy Land. He found him self in Jerusalem that was covered by snow.

After the snow melted, Daniel began "busking" on the famous Ben-Yehuda St.

It was the time of the big wave of repatriation from USSR, and the streets began to fill up with musicians, so he was, actually, one of the first street musicians in Jerusalem.

In 1994 Daniel Kriman could've been seen in Mike's Place for the first time. The rest is history...

Gabi David

Gabriel was born in 1978,Petach-Tikva,Israel.

Throughout his childhood he absorbed music from his parents who were musicians and played a lot at home.

At age six he got piano lessons from his mom who was a classical pianist,afterwards he studied piano at the conservatorium.

At the age of 12,a dramatic change! gabriel made a dream come true by getting his first drum set.

Three years later he already played with different bands he established and started to feel the passion in drumming and playing with other people.

When he finished his army service he applied to the Rimon School of Music academy,there he expanded his musical horizons in drums & percussion.

With every passing day Gaibi's passion for music grows, just the man to have on the SOBO side...

Barry "The Pirate" Gilbert

Keyboard player Barry Gilbert comes from England where he was a successful songwriter.

Since coming to Israel in 2002, he has writen produced albums including his own called Compass Rose, an album of songs about the sea earning him the nickname Barry the pirate.

He the produced and wrote the album Satisfactions Guarenteed for Hilla Ben David. and wrote songs for Liel Kolet.

All the while he has hosted the open mike nights and jam nights at mikes place.

Having done many duo gigs with Sobos bass player Asaf , he eventually joined Sobo as their Keyboard player.