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Rami Fortis (Hebrew: רמי פורטיס‎, born July 7, 1954, Tel Aviv), often Fortis, is an Israeli rock...

Rami Fortis (Hebrew: רמי פורטיס‎, born July 7, 1954, Tel Aviv), often Fortis, is an Israeli rock singer. Rami Fortis is of Iraqi and Italian origin. He served in the 1973 Yom Kippur war and was influenced by his experiences at the front. He began his musical career in 1975 as a lighting-man in the shows of Tamuz - one of Israel's prominent rock groups at that time. The band would get him on stage to sing one or two songs in their concerts. His 1978 album Plonter is considered a breakthrough in Israeli music. This album was to become one of the wildest and noisiest albums ever to be recorded in Israel. Plonter was way ahead of its time and was influenced by such artists as The Clash, Sex Pistols, Iggy Pop and The Ramones, and was characterized by topics and style that were unfamiliar and unconventional In Israel at the time it was released. A group of his Tel Aviv friends, guitar player Berry Sakharof (with whom Fortis had played in S.O.B), bass player Malka Spigel (who was Fortis' girlfriend at the time) & singer/ poet Samy Birnbach (who had contributed lyrics to Plonter) formed Minimal Compact in 1981 in Amsterdam. The band established itself as an alternative rock band in Europe,