Jacko Eisenberg

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Name = Jacko Eisenberg


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Born = November 30, 1980
Natanya, Israel
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Jacko Eisenberg (born November 30, 1980) is an Israeli singer who won the fourth season of "Kochav Nolad", the Israeli version of Pop Idol.

Biography

Eisenberg was born and raised in Natanya, a son to Miriam and Robert Eisenberg. When he was 10 years old, his father died of a heart attack after the Gulf war. At the age of 13, he started performing at school ceremonies. He graduated in the Eldad High School in Netanya and then started to create music and learned how to play piano, guitar, drums and bass and started touring with Jamus, his Hip Hop band with Guy Eliahu. At the same time, he was working as a waiter and a wedding singer. In 2003, he released the album "Sim Tarosh Batsad" (Lay Your Head Down) with Jamus.

Eisenberg shirked from a service at the Israel Defense Forces, and declared himself a pacifist.Fact|date=June 2008

In May 2006, his roommate signed him into Kochav Nolad, where he won the final on September 7, beating Maya Rotman and Refael Mirila, singing "Ani Meabed Otakh" (Losing You) and "Nirdam Al Hakholot" (Falling Asleep on the Dunes) with Ninet Tayeb.

After Kochav Nolad

A while after the winning he arouse a scandal, after he expressed problematically about shirking from the IDF and the exposure of a song he recorded with Jamus, named "Medina Zona, Medina Motsetset" ("Whore Country, Blowjob Country"). He was unofficially banned from many media outlets, and disappeared from the public life.

He returned to the Israeli music business in 2007, releasing "Kashe Li Lo Lehitragesh" (It's Hard Not to be Excited) with Maya Rotman for the fifth season of Kochav Nolad. The song became a big hit in Israel peaking number one in the main Israeli charts.

In January 1, 2008, he released an eponymous debut album. The singles from it were "Shar Shar" (Singing), "Tsoreakh" (Screaming) and "Nirdam Al Hakholot".

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