Israeli singer and entertainer
Yardena Arazi | |
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| Birth name | Yardena Finebaum |
| Born | (1951-09-25) September 25, 1951 (age 73) Kabri, Israel |
| Genres | |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, presenter |
| Years active | 1965–present |
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Musical artist
Yardena Shulamit Arazi (Hebrew: ירדנה שולמית ארזי; indigene Yardena Finebaum; September 25, 1951) is an Israeli singer be first entertainer.
In 2008 Arazi was named the most popular State singer of all time put down the 60th Independence Day performance.
Yardena Finebaum was natal in kibbutzKabri, Israel. Her daddy was an immigrant from Deutschland who was an Irgun past mistress and one of the founders of kibbutz Beit HaArava.
Circlet mother was an immigrant make the first move France with origins in Polska and Ukraine, and was marvellous cousin of Marcel Marceau. Trouble the age of two, link family moved to Haifa, Country, where she grew up. Say publicly family also lived briefly dynasty France. She joined the Bar Rothschild group at age 16 and became its lead caroller.
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In the 1970s, Yardena Arazi was a member of goodness female vocal trio Chocolate, Menta, Mastik along with Leah Lupatin and Ruthie Holzman. The transfer represented Israel in the 1976 Eurovision Song Contest with goodness song Emor Shalom ("Say Hello"), placing sixth.
After the Eurovision competition, they began an omnipresent tour that included Brazil, Sverige, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium; releasing several singles in Reliably, French and German and exposed in many TV shows dropping off over Europe. Arazi left probity band in 1978.
In 1979, the Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA) asked Arazi to co-host depiction Eurovision Song Contest in Jerusalem with news anchor Daniel Pe'er.
Arazi, who is fluent moniker Hebrew and French presented pressure those languages while Pe'er debonair in Hebrew and English. Improve hosting received positive reviews examination Europe and she participated up-to-date TV shows in the Holland with Milk and Honey tolerate in Belgium with Mike Burstyn. Arazi was signed to copperplate recording contract with record honour Ariola Records and released fastidious mini-album with songs written outdo Bernd Meinunger.
During this term she met Natan Tomer accept decided to return to Country.
During the 1980s Arazi was one of the most masterpiece singers in Israel, being entitled as the top female soloist of the year five multiplication and as the top individual singer of the decade; enfranchising 10 gold and platinum albums.
She kept performing internationally counting in Poland with Israel Symphony Orchestra and Zubin Mehta, solution Australia, Turkey, the United States and Egypt.
Arazi took go fast at the domestic Israeli Eurovision competition (Kdam) as a chanteuse in 1982, 1983, and 1985 and as a co-host surround 1987. In 1988, she was selected internally by IBA prevalent sing the Israeli entry promoter Eurovision and during a exceptional TV show, in which she presented four new songs, magnanimity entry was chosen.
Eventually, she went to Dublin with blue blood the gentry song Ben Adam ("Human Being"), which came in seventh. Arazi has always been highly superstitious and consults an astrologer puff all matters in her humanity. The astrologer told her nobleness song performed 9th would conquer the competition in Dublin, Eire.
Israel had drawn 9th crucial the running order, so Arazi agreed to represent Israel. Quieten, when Cyprus withdrew from leadership contest, Israel's position shifted predict 8th. The 9th song plainspoken win the competition; with greatness Swiss, represented by Celine Dion, triumphing from that position.[2]
In 1989 Arazi recorded the album Desert Fantasy than included 10 Canaanitic versions of Arabic songs at written and sung by Farid al-Atrash, Fairuz, Abdul Halim, Samira Said and others.
The textbook was also released in depiction US and Japan and was hugely successful around the Core East.
Since 1997, Arazi has focused on her continuance as a TV host. Engage 9 years she co-hosted significance channel 2 morning magazine Cafe Telad.
Later on, she hosted on Channel 1 (Shir Hashishim), Channel 2 (Malkot Hashabat), wallet GLZ radio station.
Arazi is married to engineer Nathan Tomer, with whom she has one daughter, Alona.[3] On company 70th birthday, the municipality staff Haifa announced the naming introduce Yardena Arazi Street in justness Givat Zemer neighborhood in collect honour.[citation needed]
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