Created ThruYOU in 2009, an innovative online music video project that remixed unrelated YouTube videos into original compositions, earning recognition as one of Time Magazine's 50 Best Inventions of 2009.

Kutiman is an Israeli musician, composer, producer and animator who gained worldwide recognition in 2009 for his groundbreaking ThruYOU project, which remixed unrelated YouTube videos into original compositions that attracted over 10 million views in two weeks. Time Magazine named ThruYOU one of the 50 Best Inventions of 2009. He has released 7 albums and created viral audio-visual portraits of cities including Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Jerusalem, and New York.

Born in Jerusalem and raised in Zichron Yaacov, Kutiman started piano lessons at age 6 and learned drums and guitar at 14. He studied jazz at Rimon Music College in Tel Aviv, then spent 9 months in Jamaica in 2003 working with Stephen and Damien Marley. While working at a Tel Aviv convenience store, he discovered college radio playing Afrobeat and funk, which changed his musical direction away from classical jazz.

His father, Haim Kutiel, is a climatologist and professor emeritus of geography at the University of Haifa. His mother, Pua Bar, is an ecologist and professor at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Kutiman was deeply influenced by artists like James Brown, Fela Kuti, and King Crimson after his return from Jamaica.