yankale segal - music producer

Yankale Segal was Born in Jerusalem, Israel.

 Graduated the Jerusalem Rubin Academy of Music Jazz Dep. on Bass and Guitar in 1993.

Right afterward, he Started playing and recording with various groups and artists professionally.

Later he studied Mid-East artistic music with various teachers (Piris Eliyahu, Ezra Barhoom, etc.) on Oud, Tar, Bouzouki and applying the Maqam system over fretless bass and combining them with western harmonies.

Yankale is performing recording, touring and producing with many well-known artists from Israel and abroad. To name a few:

Idan Raichel Project, Marc Eliyahu,Yemen Blues, Chava Alberstein, Habrera Hativit,Miri Messika, Mira Awad, India Arie, Vieux Farka Toure and many more.

leads with Avraham Cohen "Broken hallelujah" – A journey in leonard Cohen's creation.

He Leads with Yaniv Raba the "Haluvim" project – the sacred music of Lybian Jews.

Yankale has Produced Maureen Nehedar's first CD of Jewish-Persian music, Toured with the "Toure-Raichel Collective" with Vieux Farka Toure, Tours with Yemen Blues.

He plays and tours with the Yinon Muallem's Turkish-Israeli band, Performs with the "Inbal" ensemble of Yemenite music, Performed with Rabbi Haim Louk, the leading Morrocan-Jew traditional performer.

Nowadays he is active in producing, playing, recording and touring with various projects that combine East-West, old-new in the Jewish Lithurgic music as well as World and Ethnic Mid East music.