Singer lived in Tel Aviv where he started singing as well as learning to play the violin and he also worked as a diamond polisher during his youth.

After passing adolescence, Singer served in the Palmach where he also participated in the Chizbatron mainly during the late 1940s and early 1950s and he was also a member of a satire singing group along with Yaakov Ben-Sira, Shimon Bar and Reuven Shefer.

[4] He found professional opportunities on stage and screen and he heavily contributed to the Theater in der Josefstadt.

His son, Joel is a lawyer who served as a legal adviser to the Israeli Foreign Minister during the Oslo Accords.

On 11 May 2015, at the age of 88, Singer died at Ichilov Hospital due to complications from heart surgery he had prior to leaving Austria.