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= Sasha Daniel = Sasha Daniel (Grishkov) (Hebrew סשה דניאל גרישקוב; Born Sasha Grishkov on July 8 1985) is a Russian Israeli singer, songwriter, actress, producer and accent coach.

Early life
Sasha was Born in Penza, Russia, to musician parents. The family moved to Israel in 1992 when Sasha was 6 years old. At the age of 7 Sasha started dancing at a folk group, then at 11 she got accepted to Rakefet, an award winning children's choir and at the age of 12 she entered an art school in Haifa majoring on theatre.

Sasha served as a soloist at the air force in the IDF.

Biography
In 2003, during her army service, Sasha auditioned for the second season of the Israeli version of American Idol, Kokhav Nolad (כוכב נולד), became a contestant and reached the semi finals. She caught the attention of many producers and started working in the industry as a singer and actress right away.

In 2004 Sasha got to play Anne Shirley in the musical Anne Of Green Gables next to a fellow contestant from the show, Liron Lev, and an award winning actress Miki Kam. Sasha landed a guest appearance in a popular TV show Hashir Shelanu (השיר שלנו), appeared in a couple of episodes of Ha-Alufa (האלופה), and in 2007 Sasha got the part of Sarah in the play Under The Domim tree (עץ הדומים תפוס) based on a book by Gila Almagor. Sasha got high praise for her performance.

In 2008 Sasha moved to NY to study acting at the Atlantic Theatre School and completed two years of the conservatory program. In 2010 she moved to Chicago and met the writer, director, producer James Choi, with whom she made one short film and her first feature film Faith In Destiny, a modern noir, where she portrayed twin sisters. In 2011 Sasha played Madam in The Maids by Jean Genet at The Oracle Theatre in Chicago.

Sasha moved back to NY in 2012 and decided to focus on music. She met Dov Igel with whom she formed a strong bond and they began working, performing and touring together. Sasha released her Debut EP, Compass, in 2015, performed all over Brooklyn and NY and toured the country, mainly focusing on Sofar Sounds shows. Sasha also volunteered with Sofar Sounds, helping the company in NY and was the first who produced a Sofar Sound show in Israel.

Sasha and Dov released a few songs under the name Sasha & The Bear in 2017 but decided to continue exploring their individual music paths. That same year Sasha completed her 200HR of Yoga teacher training in Mexico and also became a Vinyasa Yoga instructor.

In 2018 she returned back to Israel and started producing music. She released two singles and an EP, Too Much Information, in 2020. All of the songs were produced by her and Orel Tamuz. While developing her music Sasha started working as an accent and fluency coach in English and became one of the prominent professionals in the country. She's also been translating for TV and Film since 2019 and is planning on producing plays hand picked and translated by her from English to Hebrew in 2022 and 2023.

Personal life
On June 18th 2021, Sasha married her partner of 5 years, a mechanical engineer Eran Jassby.