Please tell me about Yamin Elliot....?

Question

I didn't know he was Israeli American. Can you tell me more about his background. Does he speak Hebrew,etc..? I love his songs.

Answer 1

-He has a Jewish father and mother.

-His father is Iraqi. He cant speak hebrew.

-He is from Los Angeles.

-He is deaf in one ear i am sure.

Answer 2

elliot yamin, is jewish american, he was born in the states.yamin was born in Los Angeles, California to father Shaul Yamin, a Jewish Israeli of Iraqi Jewish descent, and mother Claudette Goldberg Yamin (d.March 31, 2008, age 65), a Jewish American of Ashkenazi (German Jewish) descent and former professional singer known for her "fiery spirit" and for receiving the "Golden Idol for Proudest Family Moment Award" from Ryan Seacrest during her son's American Idol competition. His family relocated to Richmond, Virginia when Yamin was 11, and his parents divorced when he was 14, his father returning to Los Angeles. Yamin has lived in Los Angeles since competing in the fifth season of American Idol.

Yamin has an older half-sister on his mother's side, Jodi Queen of Encinito (San Diego)[5], married and mother of two children, and a younger brother, Scott Yamin, in pharmacy school at Campbell University in Buies Creek, North Carolina.

A history of ear infections as a child and eardrum replacement surgery at 13 left Yamin with 90% hearing loss in his right ear.He was diagnosed with Type I diabetes at the age of 16 and wears an insulin pump to help him manage his diabetes.

Yamin first discovered his vocal talent while singing karaoke in his late teens. Although he had not been musically trained, he sang in a local jazz band and in amateur performance forums emulating Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, and Donny Hathaway. He attended Douglas S. Freeman High School in Richmond, Virginia. Dropping out of high school in his sophomore year, he later achieved a high school GED while working at Foot Locker (including their management program), a pharmacy and as an on-air disk jockey for a local R&B radio station, using the name E-Dub— before auditioning for American Idol.

Yamin's day to day manager and spokesperson is Monet Corso,who also receives A&R credit on his first album.