Biography
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Yehuda Poliker
Real name: Leonidas Polikari (Hebrew: ליאונידס פּוליקארי, Greek: Λεωνίδας Πολικάρη)
Effective period / Period of releases: 1985 - 1998
Yehuda Poliker (Hebrew: יהודה פוליקר, born December 25, 1950, Kiryat Chaim, Israel) is a singer-songwriter best known for combining traditional Greek, Israeli and other Mediterranean music with rock. He is from a Greek Jewish family, the son of Holocaust survivors deported to Auschwitz from Salonika, Greece. He plays guitar, bouzouki, and bağlama. After playing with the group Benzeen Poliker launched a very successful solo career in 1984.He is the son of Jako Poliker and Sarah Poliker and collaborated with them on an album released in 2012.