Ivri Lider (Hebrew: עברי לידר, born February 10, 1974) is an Israeli pop rock singer-songwriter. He is considered one of the biggest selling contemporary artists in Israeli music, who has won the "Male Singer of the Year" honor on major Israeli national and local radio stations since his breakthrough into the Israeli music scene in the late 90's. Many of his singles topped the Israeli Singles Chart and his sales stand at over 200,000 albums.
Born in 1974, Lider took his first musical steps whilst still in high school, when he joined a group called Kach Ossot Kullan ("Everyone Does It This Way"), whose gigs included a performance at the legendary "Roxanne" club in Tel Aviv.
A commission to compose music for "Kisses" and "October" for Anat Danieli's dance ensemble was followed by an invitation from Ohad Naharrin to compose the music for "Kaamos" which Naharrin choreographed for "NDT", the renowned Dutch dance company. Ivri subsequently composed the music for "Z\NA", for the Batsheva Dance Company, considered his greatest achievement in composing music for dance companies. In parallel, Ivri signed a recording contract with Helicon Records and began work on his first album.
In January 2002 Ivri Lider came to a major decision in his personal life, and decided to speak honestly and openly about his sexual orientation. He gave a cover-story interview to Gal Ochovsky, of the daily newspaper Ma'ariv, which attracted a lot of attention. While openly gay he still refuses to push for Israeli acceptance of the gay lifestyle and refuses to be drawn into the debate over the Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade.
In 2008 Lider launched both a new Hebrew and English album. The music video for his English-language song Jesse has gotten a lot of airtime on LOGO TV and Out Magazine recognized him as a member of the "Out 100" for 2007.
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