Elisa Gabbai

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Winter in Canada
  DE 13 02/01/1966 (10 weeks)
What am I without you
  DE 37 05/01/1966 (4 weeks)
Only when you are with me
  DE 24 08/01/1966 (10 weeks)

Elisa (Alisa) Gabbai (born December 31, 1933 in Tel Aviv , British Mandate Palestine , † December 14, 2010 in Los Angeles ) was an Israeli singer who became known through some chart successes in Germany.

Biography and artistic career

Elisa Gabbai's mother was an opera singer. Her father died very early. She had her first minor musical successes in her home country. In 1962 her first LP was released in Israel with 17 Israeli folk songs. In 1965 the singer came to Switzerland , where she had accepted an engagement in a nightclub. There she heard a Berlin music publisher who signed her.

In 1966 Elisa Gabbai had a big hit in Germany with the title Winter in Canada (composed by Christian Bruhn , text by Georg Buschor ). The song was covered by Mireille Mathieu in 1974 , and later by Gitte Hænning and Ingrid Peters .

At the German Schlager Festival in Baden-Baden in 1966 , she had another success with the title Only if you are with me , which came in second behind Wencke Myhre . In addition to a third chart placement with Was bin ich ohne dich , actually the B-side of Gone are the tears , she was not able to post any more hit listings in Germany. In 1967 Hansa released the LP My World Of Songs (with songs in English, French, Spanish and New Hebrew); the journalist Henno Lohmeyer praised on the back of the cover: “With the record 'My World Of Songs', Elisa Gabbai amazes her admirers, the number of whom is now likely to multiply. The successful pop singer ... proves that she is a serious, serious folklore interpreter. "

The artist switched from the Hansa label to Decca in 1967 , but the hoped-for success did not materialize. In 1973 she reappeared as Alisa Gabbai in the ZDF hit parade with the title Metronome published by Metronome Do not see, do you not stop , a German version of the Donna Hightower hit This World Today's A Mess .

Their daughter Daphna was born in Germany on July 14, 1975. In 1978 the family moved to New York. Then it became quiet about the singer, who withdrew from the public. Most recently she lived in Los Angeles (USA), where she died on December 14, 2010.

Discography

Albums

  • 1967: My World Of Songs (Hansa)
  • 1967: From Israel: The New Beat. Monitor Presents Elisa Gabbai (Monitor)

Singles

  • 1966: Winter in Canada / To Tahiti, Hawaii and Jamaica (Hansa)
  • 1966: Winter in Canada / Bambus (B-side instrumental) (Amiga)
  • 1966: The tears are over (In un fiore) / What am I without you (Hansa)
  • 1966: Only when you are with me / Love is a song (Hansa)
  • 1967: Two like us / mountains and valleys (Hansa)
  • 1967: Mama / My little Minka (Hansa)
  • 1968: Tam-Tam-Tambourin / For a long life (Decca)
  • 1968: No problem at all / Leave the dreams (Decca)
  • 1969: Take Your Time / Every Day That Begins (Decca)
  • 1972: Where is love / Whatever comes, whatever will (as "Alisa Gabbai") (Metronome)
  • 1973: Don't you see, don't you hear / Songs of Illusion (as "Alisa Gabbai") (Metronome)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charts DE
  2. ↑ Lt. Statement of the daughter In loving memory of my mother ... ALIZA 12.31.33 - 12.14.10
  3. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7iVPRnYrDo
  4. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJHAv3OFo58
personal data
SURNAME Gabbai, Elisa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gabbai, Alisa; Gabbai, Aliza
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli singer
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Tel Aviv , Palestine
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 2010
Place of death Los Angeles , USA