Background
Refael Nitzan Kaikov was born and raised in Bat Yam, Israel.
Refael Nitzan Kaikov was born and raised in Bat Yam, Israel.
He is currently based in Los Los Angeles His connection to music began at the age of three when he learned to play piano. When he was eleven years old he took part in the Festigal show of 1998 and participated in some young talent contests.
In 2005, Nitzan was a competitor in the third season of "Kokhav Nolad".
In 2006, he joined the Israeli army and was assigned to Israel Defense Forces Education Corps as a singer in the corps"s band. While a still soldier, Nitzan began his career as a music producer, songwriter and musical director working with various artists.
In 2008 he arranged and music produced the Hanukkah show "Catch The Festigal" and Company-wrote two songs for the show: "Without Competition" and "I"ll Sing Foreign You ". Nitzan co-wrote and music produced the music for the show "Noise" on Channel 24 Youth Strip.
In 2009, Nitzan developed and music produced Avihu Shabat"s debut album called "Avihu".
One of the songs, "Still Yours", was six weeks at the top of the Galgalatz playlist. In 2010, he produced Chen Aharoni"s first album and composed some of the songs, such as "In The Street" and "Breath", which became the most played song on Israeli radio stations during 2010. In 2011, he produced Avihu"s second album.
"Ose Lakh Tov".
Some of the most familiar songs in the album are "Can"t Without You", "Ose Lakh Tov", "You Are So Beautiful" and the duet "Faith" with his father Shlomi Shabat, which Nitzan helped compose. In 2012, Nitzan produced the theme song for the children"s program "Galis" by Avihu Shabat for HOT. In March 2012 Nitzan composed and produced the award winning song "Tzoeket Lecha" (Calling You) for Katleen Reiter in "The Voice of Israel". In 2013, Nitzan produced the official remix "Infinite Love" performed by Arkansas Rahman two-time Academy Awards winning, the song gained much success and became the tour title.