Moises
Szarf was born in Caracas-Venezuela in
1972. He is the grandson of four (4)
Holocaust survivors, and the son of an
architect and a psychologist. He studied
Business Administration in the “Universidad
Metropolitana (UNIMET)” embarking
for his mayoral thesis in a “Market
research for the launching of ‘Rock’ magazine
in the metropolitan are of the greater
Caracas”. Soon after graduating,
he met Carlos Lizarralde and Adriana
Lozada, two young entrepreneurs who were
on his way to launch URBE a Rolling Stone-Village
Voice-like publication, and he didn’t
miss the chance to join them as a founding
member of the venture. A year into this
job, he was approached by “Pinguino”,
an ex-member of the most iconic of Venezuelan
Rock Bands, Sentimiento Muerto (Dead
Feeling), who asked him to become the
manager of his current band, La Calle
(The Street). Moises accepted, and that
was the starting point of an effort that
peaked in the management of the CD distribution
of up to 10 different independent bands,
the booking of some of them, and the
executive production of the debut CD
of the first Venezuelan techno band,
Ojo Fatuo (Fatuous Eye), headed by his
friend Raul Aleman. After a while his
direct involvement in the music business
drifted away for personal reasons, and
he kept working on a variety of jobs
until the year 2000 when he moved to
Miami, where he currently lives with
his wife and daughter. In Miami he has
been active again in the entertainment
industry, specifically involved with ‘Klezmer’,
the folk music of Ashkenazi Jews, producing
a show called “Klezmer: a timeless
musical journey…” with the,
violinist, researcher and cinematographer,
Yale Strom, and actor Avi Hoffman. He
is also pursuing his long time interest
in song writing. But all in all, the
real constant in his life has been the
present website, The Ethereal Connection,
which he has been patiently developing
for 11 years.
