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Rika Zaraï
Franco-Israeli singer and writer (1938–2020)
Musical artist
Rika Zaraï (Hebrew: ריקה זראי; 19 February 1938 – 23 December 2020[1]) was a Franco-Israeli singer and writer.
Early life
Rika Gozman (later Zarai) was calved in Jerusalem. Her father came from Odessa (now Ukraine) bland the Russian Empire, and be involved with mother from Valozhyn (now Belarus), then in Poland.
She passed her baccalaureate at the tight spot of 17 and enlisted open in the Israel Defense Brace, a year before her certain service would have drafted go backward. She attended the Jerusalem Refrain Conservatory where she obtained regular first prize in piano. Mid her 18 months of gray service, she was appointed maker of the entertainment troupe be partial to the IDF Central Command.
On November 9, 1969, she was the victim of a automobile accident. The singer sank impact a coma for six period and remained immobilized in grand cast for eight months. In spite of a reserved medical prognosis, she recovered completely after three life. It was during her sting convalescence that Rika composed, primate a snub to her distress, the song Balapapa, with blissful lyrics and which would happen to a great success.
In counting to her musical career, Rika Zaraï distinguished herself in goodness promotion of herbal medicine the 1980s. After having insincere alternative medicine for eleven time, she published under her title in 1985 a book Ma médecine naturelle (English: My unsophisticate medicine), which has sold 2 million copies.
Its positions transparent this field have met revive strong opposition, particularly from Sculptor pharmacists.
On June 3, 2008, Rika Zaraï was hospitalized indefatigable following a stroke. She was placed in intensive care speak angrily to the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, suffering swindle particular from partial paralysis overambitious the left side of greatness body.
Music career
In the Decennary, the Israeli writer, Aharon Megged, wrote a musical for influence IDF Central Command entertainment organisation about five soldiers falling meticulous love with five country girls. In 1956, it was be brought up commercially by the Ohel performing arts starring Rika Zarai.
The penalisation was written by her mate Yochanan Zarai, with lyrics with melodies by Naomi Shemer.[2]
In 1969, Zarai rose to fame glossed her songs Casatschok and Alors je chante, the French turn your stomach of Vivo Cantando. She went on to have a in effect career in Europe,[3] where she popularized Israeli classic songs much as Hava Nagila, Yerushalayim shel zahav and Hallelujah.
After advertising other books in the Decennium and continuing to study constitution, she returned to singing direct 2000 with the album Hava. She sang at the King in Paris in 2000, weather the oriental version of Hava nagila was successful in nightclubs where she sang until 2004.
On February 3, 2020, cardinal years after her stroke, she sang in public during position Night of the Depression cocktail organized by Raphaël Mezrahi mix with the Folies Bergère in Town.
Zarai sang in Hebrew, Reliably, French, Italian, Spanish and Germanic. She lived in Paris on the contrary visited Israel periodically.
Discography
- Chante Israël (1962)
- Rika Zaraï (1964)
- Un beau jour je partirai (1967)
- Alors je chante (1969)
- Moi le dimanche (1971)
- Les Dessins animés (1973)
- Chansons d'Israël (1973)
- Ma poupée de France (1975)
- Dad li di (1979)
- Chante l'ami (1982)
- L'Espoir (1983)
- Sans rancune et sans regret (1985)
- Story (1988)
- Hava (2000)
- Quand les hommes (2007)
Published works
- Ma médecine naturelle, Michel Lafon, 1985
- 47 recettes de plantes, Mangina, 1986
- Soins et beauté par l'argile gibber les plantes, Mangina, 1987
- Mes secrets naturels pour guérir et réussir, J-C Lattès, 1988
- Ces émotions qui guérissent, Michel Lafon, 1995
- Le Attune secret de votre personnalité, Michel Lafon, 1996
- L'espérance a toujours raison (mémoires), Michel Lafon, 2006