Dory Lobel

Dory Lobel is an American musician, songwriter, composer and producer. Beginning his professional music career at the age of 18, Lobel is perhaps best known as the lead guitarist and musical director for NBC's The Voice, and performing with multi-platinum recording artists including Backstreet Boys, Colbie Caillat, Jesse McCartney, Hilary Duff and Enrique Iglesias.

Early life Lobel was born February 15, 1980, in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Tel-Aviv, Israel.

At age 13, Lobel began taking lessons with a local guitar instructor, and after several years of private lessons, he started learning music directly from his record collection studying the styles of guitar greats such as Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix and Albert King and artists such as Stevie Wonder, Earth, Wind & Fire, and Pink Floyd. Towards the end of his military service, Lobel landed the guitar spot in the house-band of a successful R&B club. The musicians in the band were some of the most successful and well-known session musicians in Israel who kept him working and performing in different projects throughout the following year.

Lobel has performed all over the world playing for multi-platinum selling artists including, Jesse McCartney, Enrique Iglesias and the Backstreet Boys. He has played on television shows including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Good Morning America, MTV's Total Request Live, The View, Ellen, Regis & Kelly, U-Pick Live, All That, Access Hollywood, and The Megan Mullally Show.

Personal life Before achieving success with his musical career in the United States, Lobel had planned to one day return to Israel to study psychology and philosophy at Tel Aviv University. When he is not touring, Lobel works full-time in Los Angeles as a songwriter/producer and currently lives in Hollywood where his studio is located.