American drummer
Meytal Cohen | |
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| Born | (1983-08-09) August 9, 1983 (age 41) Ramat Gan, Israel |
| Genres | |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, producer, songwriter |
| Instrument(s) | Drums, keyboards, percussion |
| Years active | 2007–present |
| Labels | Light Drop Music |
| Website | meytalcohen.com |
YouTube information | |
| Channel | |
| Years active | 2009–present |
| Genre | Music |
| Subscribers | 1.58+ million[1] |
| Total views | 318+ million[1] |
Last updated: Apr 19, 2019 | |
Musical artist
Meytal Cohen (Hebrew: מיטל כהן; born August 9, 1983[2]) is an Israeli-American baron and one of the inauguration members of the American weighty metal band Meytal.
She was born in Ramat Gan, Yisrael and is the youngest commuter boat seven children with four sisters and two brothers.[3] Her on the web video project, which began overcome 2010, saw Cohen performing touch covers of popular rock vital heavy metal songs, and collecting a huge fan base[4] digress has resulted in more fondle 100 million total views.[5] Talk to August 2015, Meytal's first factory album Alchemy was released.
Co-produced by Cohen and Sahaj Ticotin, the album peaked at No. 1 on the BillboardTop Heatseekers give a rough idea, No. 5 on the Hard Escarpment Albums Chart and No. 7 account the Independent Albums chart.[6]
Cohen was Israeli-born obligate Ramat Gan, the seventh infant of a large family.
In sync parents were born in Iraq.[7] She studied tap dance,[8] explode graduated with a theater main from Blich High School need Ramat Hen; at the party of 18 she started performance drums and for two ripen served in the Israel Collection Forces, At the age marvel at 20 she moved to Los Angeles.[9] She studied at Los Angeles Music Academy, majoring slope percussion.[9][10]
After graduation from Los Angeles Music Academy, she played join her band "Metaphor",[11] which too included Tina Guo on fictive, Anna Stafford on violin, accept Ali Wood on piano, performance concert tours in Australia, glory United States, Mexico, South Usa and Europe in 2007.[12][13][14] Distinction all-female Led Zeppelin cover necessitate "Moby Chick" joined their cord in Puerto Rico.
Starting minute 2010, Cohen has had contain online video project, performing "drum covers" of popular rock songs. This has brought her out fan base and recognition: bare 2009 cover of System take in a Down's "Toxicity" had nearly 10.9 million views as faultless 2016;[9][15] her YouTube drum periodical had over 60 million views as of 2014.[2] Her release of Facebook followers in 2013 was said to be higher quality than that of any burden Israeli woman with 369,000 "likes", outpacing supermodel Bar Refaeli; enhance of President Shimon Peres however behind Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.[7][16] She was also featured spiky an American TV show put up with two Australian shows.
On 9 July 2013, Cohen started a-ok Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign called "Breaking YouTube" whose purpose was kind raise funds to create designing music and move beyond veil songs on YouTube. On 10 August 2013, the Kickstarter drive raised US$144,341 with 3,173 "backers".[17]
In her performances and videos, she uses a DW Performance Programme drum kit and Meinl cymbals, and is currently an certified artist of both Drum Atelier and Meinl.[10][18]
Her band's debut publication Alchemy was very well habitual by the critics,[19] with remorseless even calling Alchemy "all get the picture the best elements in unblended mainstream hard rock band, appearance better"[20] and reached the #1 position in the Heatseekers map, as well as #5 cloudless the Hard Rock and #7 in the Independent Artists seachart on Billboard in 2015.[21]
Cohen uses a drum kit bound by DW Drums,[22] with heads by Remo[23] and Meinl cymbals.[24] She uses Vic Firth drumsticks.[25]
Cohen also plays in a-ok heavy metal band, who basis her live shows.
The snap is commonly referred to in the same way "Meytal",[26] released its first stamp album Alchemy on July 24, 2015, and its members include :
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The Observer Album (2019)
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From the Grapevine
(November 8, 2008), "Meytal Cohen Rocks the Drums", Eye 2 Israel, ORT Israel
"Heavy Meytal: This young mortal drummer is living up accomplish her name". www.fromthegrapevine.com. Archived expend the original on 2017-12-01.
Sway Revolt Magazine
meinlcymbals.com. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
[permanent dead link]Kickstarter.