Birth Date: 1983-10-21
Birth Place: Kiryat Gat, Israel

Ninet Tayeb (also known just as Ninet or Nina) (born October 21, 1983, in Kiryat Gat, Israel) is a Moroccan Jewish-pop rock singer and actress who came to fame as the first winner of Kochav Nolad (the Israeli version of Pop Idol).

She is of Moroccan Jewish origine, the third of five children to her parents. She was raised in Kiryat Gat, where she started to sing in the local youth center. Because of her humble background, she was tagged a Cinderella story. She's nicknamed Nina by her friends and family. Ninet Tayeb at the 2007 Yom Ha'atzmaut concert in the Yarkon ParkDuring her IDF service she auditioned to the first season of "Lo Nafsik Lashir - Kokhav Nolad, then still a format under development. Much earlier to her win, Israeli media embraced the Cinderella of the show and crowned her the star. The audience did not disagree - Tayeb was in the lead all throughout the season and eventually won the competition with almost half of the votes. Her winning performance was an emotional rendition of Zohar Argov's classic Mizrahi song "Yam Shel Dma'ot" (A Sea of Tears). At the semi final she sang a song by Hayehudim, bringing the rock band to the front for the first time in their career. She is the contestant with the longest-lasting and largest popularity after the show. Traditionally she gets invited to the grand finale of the show every year ever since and is introduced as the number one winner of the show. After winning Kokhav Nolad, Ninet quickly became one of the most popular and most famous people in Israel. Teddy productions, who produces Kokhav Nolad, aware of the unprecedented love of the audience to Ninet, created a daily drama with Ninet as the star as a fictional version of herself. The show, "Our Song", which was loosely based on Tayeb's life, became a hit and ran through 4 season, with Ninet starring as Ninet Levi for two seasons, and as herself for the remaining two. In 2009 the movie "Kirot", a thriller directed by Dani Lerner, was released to theaters with Ninet in the lead as a beaten woman avenging her abusing husband.

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