Ayala Ingedashet

Ayala Ingedashet (; born August 21, 1978) is an Israeli singer, of Ethiopian Beta Israel origins.

Early years Ingedashet was born in Ethiopia and lived in Israel from the age of two, when she arrived with her family. The family lived in Jerusalem for several years and then decided to settle in the coastal city of Ashdod. When Ayala was young, her parents divorced, with the mother raising the family alone in a religious home,

At the age of 14, she joined a youth band in Ashdod. After enlisting in the Israel Defense Forces to complete her mandatory service, she was part of a band in the Israeli Navy, becoming the first Beta Israel forming part of a music ensemble in the Israel Defense Forces.

Career After being discharged from her military service, Ingedashet acted in a number of plays, such as "Little Tel Aviv" and "Fuenteovejuna", and also hosted on the "Briza" TV channel. Until 2006, Ingdashet did not record musical material of her own. However, Mooki and Piloni, members of the Shabak Samech hip hop band, nurtured her musically, including participating in Mooki's performances and albums.

Ingdashet began collaborating with the music producer Roy Edri and the Israeli record label Hed Arzi, which eventually resulted in her debut self-titled album, which was released in March 2007, having had a successful album by a major label, as well as having performed the Israeli national anthem at the opening of the 2009 Maccabiah Games. She has also recorded some of the songs in the soundtracks of the different seasons of the teen series ("Children of the Tree House"), broadcast by Kan Educational. She has also participated in different editions of the Hullegeb Israeli-Ethiopian Art Festival. Ingedashet has also been part of the cast of the children's series Shalom Sesame.

Twelve years later, after having married and given birth to three children, Ingedashet released her second album, BaSchuna MiMul (In the Neighborhood opposite); the first single extracted from it, is a song about her childhood as well as her mother's childhood in Ethiopia.

Family She is the eldest of four sisters. Her sisters Mary Ingedashet and Malka Ingedashet are also singers but her sister Oshrat Ingedashet is an actress.

Albums Ayala Ingedashet (2007) BaSchuna MiMul (2019)