AI Technology Ressurected Dead Israeli Singers: Here's How It Happened

AI Technology has taken over music. With the rise of the ingenious platform in the past few months, music providers, including singers, studios, and even streaming platforms, have been plagued with problems and concerns about piracy and even illegal use of material.

However, artificial intelligence in music should not always be bad; in fact, it could be put to good use, beneficial even. In Israel, a production company made use of the tool to resurrect dead artists to collaborate once again for a song.

AI Technology Resurrected Dead People To Sing Again?

According to a Variety report, entrepreneur Oudi Antebi worked tirelessly for 18 years in the United States and 20 years in the "hi-tech space" to kickstart his new passion project back in his hometown in the country of Israel.

He formed Studio 42, a music production group based in the country's capital, Tel Aviv, and recruited some of the best minds in music production in the country.

"I was reading about how AI is just changing everything, and I decided that I wanted to start a company with a focus on creating music, a company that blends technology and music together," Antebi said in a statement to Variety.

After many years, Studio 42 will now be releasing their newest venture - an AI-generated song that resurrected two deceased Israeli singers to collaborate on a new song.

Israeli music icons Zohar Argov and Ofra Haza's voices are now behind the instant viral sensation in the said country. Argov was a pioneer of Mizrahi music, while Haza was often coined to be the "Madonna of Israel."

The duo's monumental collaboration marks a first in Israel and, perhaps, one of the first, if not the first, in the world.

'Kan Le Olam': How Did They Do It?

Antebi revealed that he got permission from the artists' respective families first, and after they received consent, they started training the AI for a month to mimic the voices of the duo.

It is important to note that Argov and Haza had not collaborated in the past before, so this is a brand new link-up, years after their deaths. The song titled "Kan Le Olam (Here Forever)," wasn't actually any other song made to boast the technology, but was, in fact, a song that binds the people of Israel together.

For Antebi, the song is filled with nostalgia but, at the same time, blends cutting-edge technology into it.

Listen to the song "Kan Le Olam (Here Forever)" below.

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