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Sinai has gained significant success in Israel during the 1980s, and has subsequently released three additional studio albums in 1992, 2003, and 2011. During most of the 1990s, he resided in the United States, feeling offended by the low sales of his eighth album in 1992. In 2011 Sinai announced via
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that he was effectively retiring from making new music for what he perceived as a lack of respect for the older generation of musicians, but has released multiple singles of new material since then.
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and "soft country". He had a "cowboy image" at the beginning of his career, which he claims was due to a cigarettes commercial in which he took part. One of his greatest influences is
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Road"), and "Makhur" ("Addicted"). Sinai is known for being the first musician to combine
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album had a much more rock and guitar-oriented sound than his other albums.
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Sinai has been divorced five times and has five children.
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folk and rock singer. His career spans five decades.
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