Ishay Ribo

In August 2019, Ribo performed Amir Benayoun's "Nitzacht Iti HaKol" ("You Won Everything With Me") alongside Benayoun at a concert in Sultan's Pool, Jerusalem; the music video received more than one million views in its first week of release.

In 2019, he was awarded the Israel Minister of Education's Uri Orbach Prize for Jewish Culture in the field of music.

In 2019 Israeli singer Ishay Ribo won first place for the Most Views On Youtube In 2019 by an Orthodox Jewish Artist. He won the award by a high margin for the second year in a row. Ribo's official YouTube channel had 224 million views and 212,000 subscribers. This is the second year in the row that Ribo doubled the number of views on his channel within a year.

In February 2018, Ribo released the album Shetach Afor ("Gray Area"), which was certified platinum. The music video for one of the singles on the album, "Lashuv HaBaytah" ("Coming Home"), logged more than 32 million views on YouTube.

In 2018, he released "Nafshi" ("My Soul"), a duet sung with Hasidic singer Motty Steinmetz. Ribo sings his part in traditional Hebrew pronunciation while Steinmetz sings with a Hasidic pronunciation. In January 2019, he released the single "HaLev Sheli" ("My Heart"). On 3 September, the single "Seder Ha'avodah" ("Order of the Service") was released, a song which describes the Yom Kippur service in the Temple in Jerusalem. These three singles were from his album Elul 5779, released in September 2019. This album consists of Selichot hymns and songs relating to Yom Kippur, including covers of songs by Shlomo Carlebach and Rabbi Hillel Paley, whom Ribo wishes to introduce to his secular audiences.

In 2017, he performed at the torch-lighting ceremony on Israel's 69th Independence Day.

In October 2015, Ribo released the first single from his second album, "Mekasheh Achat Zahav" ("A Solid Piece of Gold"), which he wrote in honor of the birth of his second son. In 2016, he released his second album, Pachad Gevahim ("Fear of Heights"). That album too was certified gold.

In 2014, he performed the song "Chadeish Sessoni" on the album "Simchat Olam" ("Joy of the World"), which consisted of songs composed by Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh. He was also featured on the album Achakeh Lo ("I Will Await Him"), which highlights songs from the Holocaust by The Heart and The Spring band.

In 2014, Ribo produced his debut album, Tocho Ratzuf Ahavah ("He Is Filled With Continuous Love"). The third single from the album, "Kol Dodi" ("The Voice of My Beloved"), earned second place at the 2013 Israel Song Festival. The album was certified gold.

–Ishay Ribo on his popularity among both religious and secular Jews

In 2012, Ribo was the first religious singer to take part in the Idan Raichel Project, and performed "Ohr Kazeh" ("A Light Like This") on Raichel's 2013 album "Reva LaShesh" ("A Quarter to Six"). He performed "Tochu Ratzuf Ahavah" at one of Raichel's concerts.

In 2012, Ribo received an ACUM prize for encouraging creativity. For his debut single ("Tocho Ratzuf Ahavah") he was named Singer of the Year, Discovery of the Year, and Song of the Year by Radio Galei Israel and Maariv. He also won the accolades of Singer of the Year, Album of the Year (Tocho Ratzuf Ahavah), and Song of the Year ("Kol Dodi") from Radio Kol Chai.

Ishay Ribo (Hebrew: ישי ריבו , born 1989) is an Israeli singer-songwriter. An Orthodox Jew, he has gained popularity in Israel among Haredi, national-religious, and secular Jewish audiences. He has released four studio albums, two of which have been certified gold and one which went platinum.

Ishay Ribo was (born 1989) to a traditional Sephardi Jewish family in Marseilles, France. His parents also grew up in France, having immigrated from Morocco and Algeria in their youth. His father began to take on more religious observance in France, and when Ribo was eight and a half years old, the family made aliyah to Israel, where the family became completely Torah-observant. Early on, they resided in Kfar Adumim, where Ribo attended a national-religious elementary school. After six months he transferred to a Haredi Talmud Torah in Jerusalem. He later studied in yeshivas in Kiryat Sefer and Gilo, the latter program designed for French olim (immigrants to Israel). Since his marriage he studies at Midreshet Ziv, an Orthodox kollel in the Sha'arei Hesed neighborhood of Jerusalem.