Shuki Lévy, Haïm Saban & Noam Kaniel

His meeting with Before becoming a business man, Haïm Saban was, in the 70s, composer and music producer. He owes his first success to Noam, totally unknown young singer who sang in 1978 the french generic of Goldorak (Grendizer). It is a tube with a Gold Record award, enabling to launch his label, Saban Records. Then, he produced the credits of other series he wrote with his friend Shuki Levy, a singer who had several successes in Israel under the name of Shuki and Aviva.Jean Chalopin led him to compose the music for DIC: Ulysses 31, The Mysterious Cities of Gold, Inspector Gadget, Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats, Jayce, Mask, etc. ... But in the late 80s, Haïm Saban became interested in the image. His company buys Japanese series that he recasts to sell to U.S. and European broadcasters. He took the opportunity to add his own music: Peter Pan, Samurai Pizza Cats, The Koalous ... He also had a great idea: he buys Nippon series in live action like Bioman, Jetman, Five Man, and replaces Japanese actors with American actors but keeps the scenes with costumes and robots. Thus are born the Power Rangers! Initially, nobody believes in that kind of mediocrity, but a first broadcast on U.S. television will get a resounding success, and generate millions of dollars to Saban. Haïm Saban has also his own animation studio, headed by a former director of DIC, Bruno Bianchi (the creator of Inspector Gadget). He produced the series Princess Sissi, Corentin, Achille Talon and Diabolik. As for Shuki Levy, he was adviser to Al Gore for the U.S. presidency in 2000.