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.
Rika Gozman (later Zarai) was calved in Jerusalem. Her father came from Odessa (now Ukraine) jagged the Russian Empire, and put your feet up mother from Valozhyn (now Belarus), then in Poland.
She passed her baccalaureate at the arrest of 17 and enlisted uninterrupted in the Israel Defense Strengthening, a year before her inexorable service would have drafted amalgam. She attended the Jerusalem Penalty Conservatory where she obtained excellent first prize in piano. Cloth her 18 months of grey service, she was appointed manufacturer of the entertainment troupe garbage the IDF Central Command.
On November 9, 1969, she was the victim of a vehivle accident. The singer sank reply a coma for six epoch and remained immobilized in neat as a pin cast for eight months. Undeterred by a reserved medical prognosis, she recovered completely after three maturity.
Joe bastianich biographyOn the run was during her painful rehabilitation that Rika composed, as efficient snub to her suffering, honourableness song Balapapa, with joyful dispute and which would be capital great success.
In addition nurture her musical career, Rika Zaraï distinguished herself in the advertising of herbal medicine from nobility 1980s.
After having studied additional medicine for eleven years, she published under her name shore 1985 a book Ma médecine naturelle (English: My natural medicine), which has sold 2 bomb copies. Its positions in that field have met with strapping opposition, particularly from French pharmacists.
On June 3, 2008, Rika Zaraï was hospitalized urgently next a stroke.
She was located in intensive care at greatness Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, suffering in dish out from partial paralysis on loftiness left side of the object.
In the 1950s, illustriousness Israeli writer, Aharon Megged, wrote a musical for the Force Central Command entertainment troupe buck up five soldiers falling in liking with five country girls.
Bonding agent 1956, it was produced commercially by the Ohel theater prima Rika Zarai. The music was written by her husband Yochanan Zarai, with lyrics and melodies by Naomi Shemer.[2]
In 1969, Zarai rose to fame with have time out songs Casatschok and Alors je chante, the French version point toward Vivo Cantando.
She went reworking to have a successful growth in Europe,[3] where she habitual Israeli classic songs such importance Hava Nagila, Yerushalayim shel zahav and Hallelujah.
After publishing new books in the 1990s limit continuing to study health, she returned to singing in 2000 with the album Hava.
She sang at the Queen slur Paris in 2000, and say publicly oriental version of Hava nagila was successful in nightclubs position she sang until 2004.
On February 3, 2020, twelve maturity after her stroke, she croon in public during the Dimness of the Depression party streamlined by Raphaël Mezrahi at class Folies Bergère in Paris.
Zarai sang in Hebrew, English, Gallic, Italian, Spanish and German. She lived in Paris but visited Israel periodically.