He is best known for his six-year collaboration with jazz legend Chick Corea and for his instrumental hit Remembering which has over 14 million streams on Spotify.

Avishai Cohen is an Israeli jazz double bassist, composer, and singer with an international career spanning over 30 years. He gained recognition as a member of Chick Corea's Origin sextet and New Trio from 1996 to 2002, then launched a successful solo career blending jazz with Middle Eastern, Ladino, and classical music. He has released 26 albums, founded his own label Razdaz Recordz in 2002, and won the 2013 Echo Jazz Award for International Bass Instrumentalist of the Year.

Cohen was born in Kibbutz Kabri in northern Israel and grew up near Jerusalem in Motza, Beit Zayit, and later Shoeva. He started playing piano at age 9, switched to bass guitar at 14 after being inspired by Jaco Pastorius, and later studied acoustic bass at the Music and Arts Academy in Jerusalem. At age 22, after serving two years in an army band, he moved to New York City where he initially performed on the streets while working in construction and studying at the New School in Greenwich Village.

Cohen has Sephardic, Greek-Jewish, and Polish-Jewish ancestry and grew up in a musical family. He often sings in Ladino, a language he connects with through his mother who sang traditional Ladino songs like Morenika around the house. After years in New York City, he moved back to Israel and currently lives there while maintaining an international touring schedule.