Koby Israelite | th

The Israelites are an institution in the world of ska music. The band was founded more than 20 years ago in Los Angeles, California, and has spent years at the forefront of the U.S. and Southern California ska scene. The Israelites have toured all across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and have performed countless concerts with the greatest names in ska and reggae music such as, The Skatalites, Lord Tanamo, Derrick Morgan, Justin Hinds, Hepcat, The English Beat, & Bad Manners, just to name a few. In the Christian industry The Israelites have performed such events as, Cornerstone Festival...

Israeli-born Koby Israelite, now based in London, is a highly gifted and versatile multi-instrumentalist. He studied piano at the Tel Aviv conservatoire from the age of nine, and became interested in playing percussion at fourteen, at first playing on a make-shift kit of old drums and a broken cymbal. He started playing with local bands at school, playing punk covers with Hebrew lyrics. At seventeen, Israelite started studying drums with "The David Rich Drumming School" in Tel Aviv, studying for a full two years. Deeply into heavy metal music, he played in the first speed metal band in Israel. But...