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Miri Ben-Ari (born December 4, 1978 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an Israeli-born American violinist. She currently resides in the United States. Ben-Ari grew up playing classical music; she started training at age 5 and at age 12, she was presented with a violin by Isaac Stern. During her mandatory Israeli military service, she was chosen to play for the Israeli Army String Quartet. During her stint in the Israeli military, she heard an album by Charlie Parker and immediately fell in love with jazz; she later said "My soul was sold." Following her service, she moved from Israel to New York in hopes of using her classical training on stage In 2003, she released her second CD ''Temple of Beautiful'', and followed that up with a live CD the following year entitled ''Live at the Blue Note''. She won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Song in 2005 as one of the co-writers of Kanye West's Jesus Walks. In 2005, she released her fourth CD and first to focus on hip-hop style, entitled ''The Hip-Hop Violinist''. As part of the promotion for it, she was part of Reebok's "I Am What I Am" global advertising campaign; Reebok was also part of the video for the first single from the CD, "We Gonna Win". In 2006, she co-founded Gedenk (Yiddish for "remember"), an organization dedicated to promoting education about the Holocaust in the United States. In 2007 she received the International Jewish Woman To Watch of 2007 Award and in 2008 she received the “2008 Israel Film Festival Visionary Award,” "The Jewish Federation" award and "the American Society for Yad Vashem" Award. In 2009, she released ''Symphony of Brotherhood'', an instrumental track featuring Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech. In part due to the song, she received the first Martin Luther King, Jr. Israeli Award in January 2008 at a ceremony hosted by the President of Israel, Shimon Peres. In March 2011 Ben-Ari was invited to the White House by Michelle Obama as part of a Women's History Month celebration, In 2012, Ben-Ari was invited to perform for U.S. President Barack Obama In 2013 she was appointed as “Goodwill Ambassador of Music” at the United Nations Association-Brazil. Miri Ben-Ari is signed with the Harman Kardon brand as a Beautiful Sound artist to be featured globally in advertisements and in special appearances as an ambassador for the Harman Kardon “Beautiful Sound” brand campaign.

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Miri Ben-Ari Album 2008 itunes amazon
The Hip-Hop Violinist Album 2005-09-20 itunes amazon
The Temple of Beautiful Live 2003-11-04 itunes amazon
Song of the Promised Land Album 2000 itunes amazon
Sahara Album 1999-05-11 itunes amazon
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