Yael Naim

What's with the popularity of naifs? Are we pining for lost innocence? There's the Juno
soundtrack, topping the charts via Kimya Dawson's grown-up playground confidences, and
Feist singing "1234" on the Grammys like a glammy Sesame Street guest. The latest faux little
girl is twenty-nine-year-old Yael Naim, a Tel Aviv-bred, Paris-based songbird whose single
"New Soul" — like "1234" before it — became a hit thanks to exposure as the soun... More >