From
"Bit hits"
He's already
huge in Europe,so when German pop dude Gil
came to Australia
recently to bombard us with his single"If you only
knew",
big hit wanted to
make it a trip to remember.
That's why we put
him in a sexy grey suit, attached him to a wire and
sent him
to the very top of the Sydeny harbour Bridge. Eeek!
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He's the
son of a pop star!
Gil
was born in Munich in 1982 and was encouraged by his musician
father Abi Ofaim to play musical instruments. Gil's dad had a
Top 10 hit called "Cinderella rockafella" in
Austria in 1968. by the time he was nine, young Gil and his
little brother Tal were performing on stage with their
father, which led to work in TV commercials. Gil scored a
recording contract in 1998 and has just released his fifth
single in Germany.
He
could've been a professinsal tennis player.
Gil is
so good at tennis that we may have heard about him because of
his on-court skills rather than his music. Fortunately for
us, the singer/songwriter(he also plays drums and
keyboards)decided he needed a music career. "I'm always
listening to music." he says. As if to prove a point,
one ear is on big hit's questions, the other glued to the
head phones of his Discman! Is this guy serious about his
music or what?!
He's a
"LITTLE SURFING BOY!"
Sure
he's a pop star who can play a mean game of tennis, but Gil
loves nothing more than to grab his surfboard and hit the
waves. "I go surfing every year in Israel. I'm a little
surfing boy. Son of a beeeach." he says."I've only
been in Australia a short time but I've alreay been shopping
for surfing clothing because it's much cheaper than in
Germany. I've bought some Quiksilver stuff and all my friends
told me to buy Billabong and Rip Curl because we don't have
them in Germany."
He's Australia's biggest fan!
"Before
I came here the only things I knew about were
kangaroos,koalas, silverchair, AC/DC. that's it," he
giggles."Now I love everything. Oh, I like(start
singing)' I like your old stuff better than your new stuff'
by Regurgitator. I've heard about Taxiride, too. I flew to
Brisbane to do THE BIG Breakfast and saw the country from the
plane. it's beautiful! I also think Australian burgers are
the best burgers in the world!"
He reckons Buffy kicks serious
butt!
To put
it simply-Gil loves Buffy. he's a big fan of the show and
admits he'll see anything with Sarah michell Gellar in
it."I think Buffy rocks! It's the greatest show, isn't
it!?" what's more, he has something in common with his
idol-he hates to fly just as much a Sarah does. "It
makes me tired,"he says.
"I'm
sooo jet-lagged right now...in four days!" oh, the
painful task of being a pop star, huh?