Gil Ofarim
His fondest memory revolves around sports
– Gil Ofarim spent many hours on the tennis court when he was a child. © Timm/face to face/ImageCollect
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“What if …”, Gil Ofarim philosophizes from time to time. Before he discovered his love for music, he was primarily devoted to tennis.
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Gil Ofarim (38, “Alles auf Hope”) is best known in Germany as a musician. His most beautiful childhood memory, however, has hardly anything to do with sounds or lyrics. In the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung” he recalls: “I stayed up all night when the men played in Australia or at the US Open. I wanted to be like them, I wanted to be a professional tennis player.” At the tender age of three he got his first tennis racket and a ball.
“My greatest role model was Andre Agassi, I inhaled every serve and every movement of the top stars back then,” says Ofarim. For him, the tennis greats of the time were rock stars. Does he regret taking a different path with his music career? “Sometimes I have a very, very brief moment in which I think: what if …”, the 38-year-old philosophizes. “But in our generation nobody would be with Rafa anyway [Rafael Nadal, Anm. d. Red.] or Roger [Federer] stopped by. “The artist doesn’t regret” that I quit, but I miss it sometimes “.
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