Avi Benedi was born in Israel on 2 April 1980. When he was four years old, his family moved to live in Vienna, Austria. His parents have Russian roots. His father, Eduard Babadost, is a famous tenor in Austria, and his grandfather is a folk artist in Tadzhikistan. Avi Benedi has two brothers: one is a jewellery and fashion designer, and the other is the talented young director, Lior Babadost. From a tender age, Avi has had only one passion: music. That inspired him to start pursuing his dream of becoming a singer and music composer. At the age of two, he started to play the drums, a tradition followed by all men in his family. When he was six, Avi received an accordion from his father as a gift, and that became his big passion in the next few years. At eight, he began playing the classical guitar and attending a specialised music school in Vienna for three years. The next instrument he got heavily into was the synthesiser. At that point, he joined his grandfather’s band, which performed Israeli folk music.Young Avi Benedi Avi speaks and sings in a number of languages: Hebrew, English, German, Russian, Bulgarian, Persian, Bukhori, Slovakian and Romanian. Avi Benedi has graduated from the College of Photography and Film Arts in Vienna. From 1999 until 2008, he worked as operator-in-charge at Austrian TV channel ATV, but that did not prevent him from continuing to follow his dream. for more info just look my webpage: www.avi-benedi.com <br>