Dina (Din Din) Aviv was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. Her parents are both artists. Her mother, Aliza Aviv, is a performing singer in a wide range of styles, her father was a jazz musician, and as a child she recorded an album, Alidin, with her mother and accompanied her father when he performed.
She studied dance and ballet at the Israel School of Ballet and with Dorit Gasner, African dance with Master Aisha Diallo, Indian song and Tabla drum playing in India, African drumming with Uri Nave, congas with master Avi Zarfati, and piano and two years of drum and voice studies at the Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music.
After performing with Gaya and with the Idan Raichel Project, she released her debut album, Sodotay (My Secrets) in 2006. Aviv is a graduate of Alliance High School and served in the Israeli army as the solo singer for the Air Force Entertainment Group. She presents a world music program with her mother, Aliza Aviv, in which they both sing in Turkish, Kurdish, Greek, Bulgarian, Georgian, Persian and Hebrew.
She is a chosen artist of the Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation (IcExcellence), which aims to support artistic talent in Israel.
She then joined the Idan Raichel Project, and was the lead singer on the hit song Im Telech (If You Leave). The single, Sodotay (My Secrets), was nominated for Song of the Year at the annual Israeli Music Channel Awards in March 2007.
As an adult, Aviv joined Gaya, a leading Israeli band, who had a hit song, Shir Louisiana"Ahava (Yachad), which received the Discovery of the Year Award and has become an unofficial second national anthem for many Israelis. After her performing with Gaya and the Idan Raichel Project, she released a solo album, Sodotay (My Secrets) in spring 2006, for which she received the "Discovery of the Year" award from ACUM (The Composers, Authors and Publishers Society of Israel) and a Gold Album award in April 2007. Aviv received the Best Artist in Music award from the Israel Ministry of Culture, the nation’s highest cultural award, in 2007, and embarked on her first United States tour in March 2008, performing in Tulsa, New York City, Sarasota, Fort Lauderdale and Boca Raton.
