Hen Yanni, born 20 January 1983, is a musician, singer, actress, model and DJ.
Personal life and career
She was born from a Moroccan mother and a Turkish father. She traveled the world from an early age, working as an actress and model before following her call towards songwriting and music. She currently lives in Barbizon village in France, a creative enclave at the edge of the Fontainebleau forest outside of Paris.
At the age of 21 she started acting. In 2008, Yanni played the major role in the feature film The Other War,[3] directed by Tamar Glazerman.[4] In 2010, she played a supporting role in the feature film Melach Yam, directed by Itay Lev,[5] where she made a cover version to Shlomo Artzi's song "You will Never know". In 2012, she played a supporting role in Haim Buzaglo[6]'s feature film Blank Blank.[7]
Her first single Where Do We Go was released on 20 January 2023 and received warm reviews around the world while attracting people to her release party & Live Show at La Folie Barbizon. The video for Where Do We Go was a collaboration with director and photographer Aleph Molinari, the choreographer Sharon Eyal, and stylist Camille Bidault-Waddington. [12] A retro-modern reverie, the video captures Hen at her most vulnerable, her image replicated into an infinite mirror where she confronts herself.[12] Her debut EP “Where do we go?”, released on June 2023, is a musical diary – a deeply-personal collection of memories – that seeks to establish a dialogue with the past while speaking to her future self. The EP is an enchanting experience full of raw emotion and poetic portraits. The project is released on the label Animal63, anticipating a forthcoming debut album "Version of You" on September 2024.