Sivan Talmor’s musical career began early. “At the age of nine I told my mother that I wanted to be a singer, and she took me to the local music school. They said that I was too young, but they let me audition anyway and said that my voice was mature enough, so I got in.”
It was the start of an unusual journey for the granddaughter of the man who set up Iscar, an Israeli tool-making firm founded in 1952 which is famous as the first non-US business that Warren Buffett invested in; he bought an 80% stake in 2006 for $4 billion (€3.1 billion).