Alexander Tamir (Wolkowyski) was born in 1931 in Vilna, Poland (now Lithuania) and died in Israel on August 2019. 　　He was the only son of Fania Kowarski and Dr. Noah (Leon) Wolkowyski a physician. Tamir attended a Jewish school in the Polish language, and heard his first songs in Polish. He learned to play the piano at the age of five, and as a child played and composed as well.