Dafna Armoni
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Dafna Armoni ( Hebrew דפנה ארמוני; * March 13, 1956 in Kibbutz Revivim ) is an Israeli singer , actress and artist .
Live and act
Dafna Armoni was born in 1956 in Kibbutz Revivim in the southern Negev desert.
Armoni began her career as a singer while serving in the Israeli army. First from 1975 to 1977 in the group Lahakat Geysot Hashiryon and later with the Israeli Air Force Band , with which she received her first award at the Israel Song Festival 1977 as a soloist with the title Bevil .
Dafna Armoni's musical breakthrough came in 1979 when she sang the song Until Tomorrow with Arik Einstein and Shalom Hanoch , which made her known to a wider audience. In the same year she was engaged for a role in Hanoch Levin's play Murder and invited to the Cameri Theater in Tel-Aviv . It also followed in 1979 her first film role in the film Eskimo Limon - Yotzim Kavua , which is known in Germany under the title Eis am Stiel 2 - Feste Freund . Together with the composer Shlomo Gronich Armoni entered the national Israeli preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest 1981 with the title Kaleidoscope , but could not prevail against the then sent group Hakol Over Habibi .
In 1986 Dafna Armoni released her debut album of the same name, which was produced by her then partner Shalom Hanoch. Some of the pieces on it were very successful commercially in Israel, including Ella and Doubt Girl, Doubt Woman . In 1987 she was active as a background singer for artists such as Yossi Banai , Shlomo Gronich and Chava Alberstein . Together with Shlomo Gronich, she recorded an album the following year for the children's musical Because of the Mango based on the children's book of the same name by Gronich's partner Nirit Yaron .
At the beginning of the 1990s, Dafna Armoni became increasingly active as an artist and took part in several exhibitions in Israel. In addition, she took on other acting roles and had a supporting role as a Koran teacher in 1991 in the American drama Not Without My Daughter , which was produced in Israel. Armoni continued to work successfully in the production of music and radio plays for children and young people in the 1990s.
Since the 2000s, Dafna Armoni has devoted herself more and more to the theater. She became part of the permanent ensemble at the Israeli National Theater Habimah in Tel-Aviv and played in the play Der Frauen-Minyan by Naomi Ragen or in Bustan Sepharadi (The Spanish Garden) by Jitzchak Nawon . In Israel, Bustan Sepharadi has been performed more than 2000 times, making it the longest running play at the Habimah Theater. She has been teaching acting and music since 2000 and works as a voice trainer. Armoni has two children and lives in Tel Aviv.
Individual evidence
- ↑ MOOMA - המוסיקה של ישראל read more: http://mooma.mako.co.il/artist.asp?ArtistId=1388. In: MOOMA . March 18, 2013, accessed March 29, 2017 .
- ^ Ofer Aderet, Jonathan Lis: Yitzhak Navon, Fifth President of Israel, Dies at 94. In: Haaretz. November 7, 2015.
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| SURNAME | Armoni, Dafna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | דפנה ארמוני (Hebrew) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli singer, actress and artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kibbutz Revivim |