Yehoshua Sofer
Yehoshua Sofer () is an Israeli-Jamaican hip hop and rap artist, and a martial artist. Biography. He was born in 1958 in Jamaica and his family moved to Los Angeles in 1963 where he studied Tang Soo Do, receiving a black belt by 1968, aged ten. He studied Kuk Sool Won from 1974, advancing to 6th dan, and worked as a trainer and bodyguard during the 1970s and 1980s. Singing career. In the 1990s, he was a hip hop singer and rapper under the name Nigel Addmore, and was an MC on the album "Humus Metamtem" in 1993 . The album's track "Hummus makes you stupid" was a club hit in Israel. He appeared in the documentary films Awake Zion in 2005, and Hummus the Movie in 2016 Martial arts career. In 2000, he ran a Kuk Sool Won school at the International Convention, Jerusalem. In 2002, he founded the Abir Warrior Arts Association of Israel, teaching his own style of "Abir-Qesheth Hebrew Warrior Arts" () in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, claiming it to be a tradition of his family dating to Israelite antiquity preserved by an underground school of "Bani Abir" in Habban, Yemen, and styling himself  Aluf Abir "Grandmaster of Abir". Sofer perceives this style of martial arts training to be a continuation of the practices of the Jewish people prior to the Second Temple period. The word "abir" in Modern Hebrew means "knight". The style takes inspiration from the Hebrew alphabet, basing moves and stances on Hebrew letters.