Multidisciplinary artist and musician Neta Elkayam has gained recognition worldwide as a performer of North African music. A Key School of Arts honors graduate, Neta creates music and art inspired by Jewish artists of North Africa, linking their spirit and roots to contemporary global arts and music scenes while integrating Andalusian, Amazigh and Mediterranean influences, rock, pop, and jazz. She appeared at festivals around the world, including the Essaouira Music Festival and International Film Festival Marrakech in Morocco; GWMF Gibraltar; the Krakow Jewish Festival; IMA - Institut du monde arabe Paris; and more. Neta was awarded the 2017 ACUM Music Prize and the Sami Michael Award for Social Equality in 2019, as well as the Moroccan “Salam Contemporary Arts Forum” prize in 2021. She was granted the Moroccan TMM Trophy for spreading the Moroccan Jewish Voice around the world (March 2022).

Amit Hai Cohen is a musician, filmmaker and curator working on the Jerusalem-Morocco axis. He composes music for dance and film, including “Levantine,” “We Were a Sterile Bomb,” and “Oil on Water,” for which he also co-wrote the script. Amit has created several films, including "Stop the Evacuation" and the musical “To Box with God” (2021). Along with his partner, Neta Elkayam, he has produced numerous musical projects, including "Abiadi," and the electro jazz project "Arenas," for which he served as musical director, collaborating with the best artists on the North African scene both in Israel and internationally. In 2019, Amit curated "Ziara", the Jerusalem Biennale's flagship exhibit of work by current Moroccan artists from around the world, which was displayed at the Jerusalem YMCA. Since 2019, he has also created content for museums, including an immersive experience that is part of the permanent exhibition of Jerusalem’s Tower of David Museum.

Neta and Amit star in director Kamal Hachkar's "In Your Eyes I See my Country," (2019) which traces their early careers. In 2019, they were jointly awarded the Erez Biton Prize for Originality, Courage, and Artistic Breakthrough. In 2022, Amit and Neta were commissioned to create the original multidisciplinary Opera “Hilula” for the Israel Festival, Israel’s most prestigious festival of the arts. Neta and Amit will be in residence at Xavier University of Louisiana during the Fall 2025 semester.