Netta Barzilai

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Netta, 2018
Netta, 2018
Chart placements
(preliminary)
Explanation of the data
Singles
Toy
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  DE 19th May 18, 2018 (2 weeks)
  AT 15th 05/25/2018 (2 weeks)
  CH 34 05/20/2018 (1 week)
  UK 49 May 24, 2018 (1 week)
Bassa Sababa
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Nana Banana
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Ricki Lake
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Netta Barzilai ( Hebrew נטע ברזילי; * January 22, 1993 in Hod Hasharon ), also known as Netta , is an Israeli singer . As the interpreter of the song Toy , she won the 63rd Eurovision Song Contest on May 12, 2018 and thus achieved the fourth victory for Israel in this competition.

Life

Netta Barzilai comes from Hod HaSharon , a city north of Tel Aviv . As a child, she lived in Nigeria with her family for four years . After a Nahal -Freiwilligenjahr she did her military service in the band of the Navy from. She then studied electronic music at the Rimon School of Music in Tel Aviv . She calls herself a "fat girl".

Musical career

Before her success at the ESC preliminary round 2018, Netta Barzilai worked as a DJ and singer at wedding parties. She taught singing and started an improvisation choir called The Experiment . She was engaged as a singer for three years at Club Bar Giora , where she was responsible for the artistic direction of the weekly blues nights. In 2016 she played the leading role in the theater production Running on the Sea with the theater professor Ruth Kanner and the composer Avshalom Ariel, one of her background singers at the Eurovision Song Contest 2018. In 2017 Netta received another leading role in Noam Inbar's a cappella piece The Book of Challenges , which was part of the Tel Aviv Museum's Singing in the Squares project. Netta Barzilai is a soloist in the successful show-group "Gaber Band", which as well occurs both in Israel and abroad Loop - Workshops offering for young musicians in schools.

On February 13, 2018, she won HaKochav Haba L'Eurovision (The Next Star of Eurovision), the Israeli original version of the television show Rising Star . Since the show is also a preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest , it represented Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 in Lisbon . In the first semi-final in the Altice Arena in Lisbon, 19 singers and bands competed against each other, and Barzilai was elected to the final by televoting. In addition to the contribution from Cyprus, her song Toy was a favorite among betting shops. The Toy video was viewed around 127 million times on YouTube (as of Sunday, March 1, 2020).

In the ESC final on May 12, 2018, Netta Barzilai received the third most jury and most audience points and won the competition with a total of 529 points, ahead of Cyprus and Austria. “Thank you for choosing the difference; thank you for celebrating diversity, ”she said in her acceptance speech.

In February 2020 she released her single Ricki Lake . Netta also made a cameo in the Netflix film Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga .

Discography

Singles

  • 2018: Toy
  • 2019: Bassa Sababa
  • 2019: Nana Banana
  • 2019: BEG (with Omer Adam )
  • 2020: Ricki Lake

Web links

Commons : Netta Barzilai  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK
  2. ↑ Ulrich Gutmair: Israeli singer Netta: Already won the ESC of likes. In: taz.de. Retrieved May 9, 2018 .
  3. ^ Benjamin Hammer: Eurovision Song Contest: The favorite comes from Israel. Bayerischer Rundfunk, May 8, 2018, accessed on August 22, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Eurovision Song Contest: There is no longer any apolitical , zeit.de , May 12, 2018
  5. ↑ Netta Barzilai from Israel - Who is the "Toy" singer? In: miss.at. Retrieved May 12, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Netta Barzilai to represent Israel in Lisbon!
  7. ↑ Netta Barzilai is Israel's rising star and wins "Hakochav Haba L'Eurovizion"
  8. ↑ First semi-final with two favorites. Westdeutsche Zeitung, May 9, 2018, accessed on May 9, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Netta - TOY - Israel - Official Music Video - Eurovision 2018. Eurovision Song Contest, March 11, 2018, accessed on October 19, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Jens Balzer: The ESC chooses the other. The time, accessed May 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Barzilai, Netta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES נטע ברזילי (Hebrew); Netta (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli singer
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Hod Hasharon