Jo Amar

Yosef "Jo" Amar (1930 - 2009) is an Moroccan-born Israeli mizrahi-singer. He was born in 1930 in Settat, Morocco. He began his singing career in the late 1940s in Morocco. In 1956, he emigrated to Israel where he lived on Moshav Yad Rambam. He was a pioneer in the introduction of Moroccan Jewish liturgical music to Israel and he tried to introduce Mizrahi music originating in Middle Eastern or North African countries to mainstream Israeli culture. Hebrew: ג'ו עמר