He is one of the oldest and most loved musicians in Israel, whose songs are considered an iron sheep asset in Israeli culture. She is a successful singer with a track record and also an honorary status as a judge on the successful music reality show “The Next Star”. Now Shlomo Artzi and Keren Pels are coming out with their first and intriguing musical collaboration: “Not Lost”.
Artzi: “‘Not Lost’ came to me from Kern and grabbed me right away through the piano that Kern was playing in the background. The text touched my heart and the melody started buzzing in my head long hours after I heard it for the first time. For me it’s a kind of sign to examine my connection to it. In the studio during the recording I already knew That I love him and that I will be his partner.”
Keren: “‘Not Lost’ lived with me for a while and over time I realized that it lacked another edge, a deep voice from other heights, a reflection of another life journey that I did not go through myself, so that we would go through it together. I started writing ‘how much we’ve been through remember..’ and the memory felt so complete amidst all the fragments. In my wildest dreams, I never imagined that Shlomo Arzi would arrive. His songs have always been my best friends, in tears, in happiness, in embracing the past and writing the future myself. That’s how we met and when it happened, beyond the fulfillment of a personal dream, we felt that the song had its place, its weight and lightness of spirit and could now continue on, to you. …’Looking for an answer, we didn’t find it, but we are not lost…’.