Asaf Avidan is an Israeli musician, singer and songwriter. He is also the frontman of the Israeli folk-rock group Asaf Avidan & the Mojos. He was born in Jerusalem to a family of diplomats and lived four years in Jamaica as a child. After compulsory military service in the Israeli army, he studied animation at the Academy of Art. One of his projects, a short film called Find Love Now won the short film category at the International Film Festival in Haifa. After graduation, he moved to Tel Aviv, where he worked as an animator. He later moved back to Jerusalem, where in 2006 he founded his own band.