Gilad Segev

Gilad Segev (in Hebrew גלעד שגב; born 16 November 1974) also known as Passerby is an international-israeli singer-songwriter, musician and author.

Gilad Segev (born 16, November 1974), got his nickname after forming the Passerby project, a Multi content, multi media global platform, Which he refers to as an ecosystem to amplify the less heard voices in our world.He is also known as Passerby as the writer of his best seller debut book: “Passerby - quotes for the traveler through life” based on his “I to I” Philosophy.

Going international at 2013, Segev began to be known as Passerby for being a traveling musician that collaborates in every single track with a performer that represent its unique origin.As Passerby, He locates the ones he refers to as 'Passerby Heroes" which he encounters in his remote travels, creating content together with them based on the language of music. Passerby Creation is the result of these meaningful interactions with others and are shaped by the lifestyle, authenticity, and dominant traits of the many places he journeys to. These encounters result with songs, videos, but also with online content and soon to be released Passerby TV series. His musical work so far included top musicians such as Grammy winner Sterling Crew, Jack knight (Song writer), Roahn Hylton (Producer), and worldwide performers such as: Havana D'Primera from cuba, Ravid Kahalani from "Yemen Blues" featuring in his first single: "Gold Rush".

Touring all global continents, Passerby multi media, multi guest concert has headlined several festivals all over the world, performing in The US . Europe and Africa, with Over 20 tours in China itself, resulting with almost one million followers on Weibo Chinese social media.

"Passerby" network TV series is due to be broadcast in spring 2021.

On 2 June 2013, Passerby (Segev) performed in front of an audience of 200,000 people, representing Israel at Celebrate Israel festival in Manhattan, New York.

On August 2013, Passerby performed as the main event in One World festival, Cleveland, Ohio.

On July 2014 Passerby was chosen to perform on the main stage at Zebra music festival in Shanghai, China in front of tens of thousands of people.

On January 2015 He began his work on Passerby NY001, With musical producer Roahn Hylton, that describe Passerby experience in New york.

At April 2015 he created and performed songs for the "East West" project of Grammy winner Sterling crew.

On May 2015 He toured China and was invited as Main Speaker in China Israel business conference.

September 2015 he toured Cuba, Also recording a collaboration with Havana D'Primera called "Havana Africa".

On February 2016 Gilad Segev signed Passerby project with Aida Gurwicz, known for signing many of America top artists such asThe Black Eyed Peas, and John Legend as co owner of publishing company Cherry Lane Music.

March 2016 Passerby toured 15 colleges in the US.

July 2016 Passerby headlined Chengdu China world music Festival.

October 2017 Segev went online with Passerby in China and globally, resulting with over a million followers.

July 2018 Passerby launched its remix project called "Premonition" in front of 20000 audience in his country of origin Israel at "Hayarkon Park".

On September 2018 Passerby released his book: "Quotes for the traveler through life" to become a best seller and later translated to 10 languages.

on April 2019 Passerby was invited to tour Africa, writing the official song for Good Deeds Day international activity, together with the Malawi singer songwriter Ben Mankhamba.

June 2019 Passerby toured Shanghai, Beijing, Xian, Chengdu, Nanjing in china, with the multimedia Passerby concert.

March 2020 Passerby released a duet with Chinese Singer HaHui, dedicated to the Chinese Health workers of Wuhan, that resulted with Millions of views in China and worldwide.

He was born in Ramat Gan.

In 2004, Segev released his first single, "Achsav Tov", which was written about his brother, an Israel Defense Forces captain who was killed during his service, and tells the story of a day the two had spent together just weeks before his passing. The song became a hit and was the most broadcast song on Israeli radio that year.

The single was followed by the release of his album of the same name, which included a few other singles –including "Writing You a Story", which was the theme song for the Israeli television show, Peach.

In 2006, Segev released the single "The Love That Stays", which would go on to be the song featured in Israeli telecommunications company Hot's marketing campaign for that year. The song was the namesake for his second album, which was written over a long period of time during which Segev shut himself in his house, doing nothing but writing music.

In 2007, Segev co-wrote the song "Let's Leave" with Ran Danker and Elai Botner, which would go on to win "Song of the Year" at the Israeli Music Channel's yearly award ceremony.

After his second album, Segev took some time off in isolation yet again, this time in order to rediscover his Jewish, Syrian and Polish roots and incorporate them into his music. He started learning to play traditional authentic instruments from Syria and Eastern Europe in order to accomplish that goal, and altered his artistic focus to creating an experience for the audience in order to assist them to discover their own inner identities, as he had. This culminated in a new sound for Segev, which was heard on his third album, We Were Meant to Be ("Noadnu", נועדנו), released in 2009. The album went on to be certified gold, selling over 20,000 copies. It features the song "Woman from the Sky", which went on to garner over two million hits on YouTube, and was Segev's second song to win the title of Israeli radio's most broadcast song that year. The album also included the theme song, "Noadnu", which is a cover of the Swedish electronic-music band The Knife's song "Marble House".

In 2011, Segev cooperated with the band Matbucha Project in writing a cover song for Nathan Alterman's "Chana'leh Hitbalbelah", which became the fourth-most-played song on Israeli radio in 2011.

In early 2012, Segev released Holy Day (יום קדוש), which would break the record for most plays in a week on Israeli radio. The song was the first single from Segev's fourth album released on March 2012, "The Voices of the Heart", which was also the title of the album's second single, featuring Israeli singer Miri Mesika.

Segev also sat as a judge for the committee selecting the 2012 Israeli entry to Eurovision Song Contest.

On March 2013, Segev released his fourth album "Voices of the heart" that went Gold less than a year later.

Albums

• 2004: Achsav Tov (עכשיו טוב)
• 2006: האהבה נשארת
• 2009: Noadno (נועדנו)
• 2013: Kolot Halev (קולות הלב)

Singles

• 2004: "Achsav Tov"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbSRsw03nzk
• 2009: "אשה מהשמיים"("A Woman from the Sky")https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HM1gk6dkKU
• 2012: "Holy Day" (יום קדוש)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lakjLzO_4sw
• 2020: "Be There" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI0yDyC2NaM