Kobi Peretz

Biography

Kobi Peretz (Hebrew: קובי פרץ; born October 28, 1975, in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli singer specializing in Mizrahi (Middle Eastern-style) music. The youngest of 10 children in a Moroccan-Jewish family, he began performing as a teenager and released his first album in 1992. He rose to major fame in the early 2000s with the massive hit “בלבלי אותו” (“Balbeli Oto” / “Confuse Him”), which became a cultural phenomenon and one of the biggest songs in Israeli Mizrahi music. Over a career spanning more t…