Nice Thobi

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Nizza Thobi (born July 15, 1947 in Jerusalem , Palestine ) is an Israeli-born singer and musician who lives in Germany.

Nice Thobi

biography

Thobi was born in Jerusalem near the Mount of Olives to Sephardic Jews . Even as a child she came into contact with German-Jewish history when she noticed the numbers tattooed on the parents of some of her classmates from imprisonment in the Nazi concentration camps . She became more and more interested in Germany and the history of the Shoah as well as in Berlin in the 1960s, which, like her native Jerusalem, was divided. In the 1960s she studied classical guitar in Jerusalem and then toured the world with the Israeli folk group "Saber Show". She then introduced herself to the Frankfurt Hair Musical and was selected for the solo role in the song "Frank Mills". In 1972 she also started her solo career (including in the Munich scene theater "Song Parnass" and in the Schwabing "Shalom Club"), which she continues to this day. Since January 2006 she has moderated the Jewish cultural program on Radio LORA Munich . Thobi lives with her husband, a costume designer, in Munich.

Music and lyrics

Nice Thobi pulls the thread from Vilnius to Jerusalem. Her songs are songs with a political claim. The individual titles are mostly songs from the ghettos, such as Vilnius and Warsaw. The stories behind the individual pieces of music are particularly important to her and are often researched by the musician in a complex process. But songs from Eastern European Judaism and today's Israel also find a place on their publications; Nizza Thobi sings songs in Yiddish , Hebrew , Aramaic , Ladino , Greek and German .

Discography

  • 1982: Mir lebn ejbig (LP, 2006 also as CD, David Records)
  • 2000: Gebojrn in a sajdn hemdl (album, David Records)
  • 2006: Yiddish is gor nischt asoj hard (album, David Records)
  • 2009: A Suitcase Speaks (Album, David Records)

Others

In 1976 Tony Marshall won with the song Der Star the competition Ein Lied für Den Haag , the German preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest . However, the song was disqualified shortly afterwards because the singer Nizza Thobi had sung it publicly before. Since 2009 she has been touring with a permanent ensemble consisting of piano (Dr. Peter Wegele) and violin ( Niki Kampa ).

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personal data
SURNAME Thobi, Nice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli-German singer
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Jerusalem