President Isaac Herzog pays tribute to singer and songwriter Matti Caspi, who died aged 76, as “one of the greatest Israeli creators of our generation.”
“Just like in one of his unforgettable songs – ‘Someone is taking care of me up there’ – too soon we have parted from Matti Caspi, one of the greatest Israeli composers of our generation, who has gone to take care of us from above,” Herzog writes.
“And we are left with his masterful works, with the melodies that showed kindness to wonderful texts and granted them eternal life, with the compositions that shaped Israeli music for decades, with the arrangements in which his unique fingerprint was so clearly felt,” Herzog says.
“Matti Caspi is no longer with us, but his contribution to Israeli music and to our lives is so present and will continue to accompany our cultural world for generations to come,” he says.
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