Shoshana Damari

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Shoshana Damari, 1961

Shoshana Damari ( Hebrew שושנה דמארי; born March 31, 1923 in Dhamar , Yemen ; died February 14, 2006 in Tel Aviv ) was an Israeli singer who became known as the "Queen of Israeli Song". In 1988 she was awarded the Israel Prize .

Life

Childhood and youth

Shoshana Damari was born in 1923 in the Yemeni city of Dhamar, the youngest daughter of a family with five children. After anti-Jewish riots in Yemen, the family moved to the port city of Aden on foot in 1924 . From there they traveled by ship to Palestine and settled in Rishon LeZion in 1925 , where Damari's father found work as a teacher at a Talmud school .

As a child she played drum and sang to accompany her mother, who as a singer in meetings of the Yemeni community in the Yishuv occurred while also laments recited. On the recommendation of her brother Sa'adia Damari, an actor and singer himself, she performed in an oriental theater company at the age of 13. In 1938 she had her first solo appearance on the radio, with Yemeni songs by the poet Shalom Shabazi (1619-1720), accompanied by oud and drums. Her first concert took place in 1939, when she was accompanied by the concert pianist and composer Nachum Bardi (1901–1977). In 1940 she married Shlomo Bosmi, who was also her manager until his death in 1988.

Career

In 1943 Damari became a member of the musical theater Li-La-Lo (Hebrew "For me-for her-for him"), which performed numerous melodies by the composer Moshe Wilenski based on texts by Nathan Alterman , including Kalanyot (כלניות " Anemones ") which became Damari's trademark. Shortly after gaining Israeli independence , she traveled to Cyprus with Wilenski , where she moved the audience in the British internment camps to tears with Habajta ("Home") and the Yiddish song Roshinkes with Mandlen by Abraham Goldfaden .

With her powerful alto voice , her throaty Yemeni pronunciation and her dramatic demeanor, she has been an icon with decades of charisma since the first years of the State of Israel.

In addition to her career as a singer, Damari also appeared in several films. Height 24 does not answer (1955), a political film by director Thorold Dickinson , is set in the 1948 War of Independence. In B'Ein Moledet ("In der Nicht-Heimat", 1959), the first Israeli color film, her family's emigration from the Yemen retold.

After numerous radio recordings in the 1950s on Israeli radio and appearances in front of soldiers of the Israeli army , her fame increased in the following two decades with tours in France, England, Scandinavia, several countries in South America and Japan. After a few years of silence, the musician Boaz Sharabi made a comeback in the 1980s . In 1988 she was awarded the Israel Prize for Israeli Music. Her last recordings were made in 2005 when she contributed two songs to Idan Raichel's album Mima'amakim ("From the Depths").

After suffering from pneumonia , she died on February 14, 2006 in Tel Aviv. Thousands of mourners accompanied them on their last walk, many of them with anemones in their hands. She is buried in the Trumpeldor Cemetery in Tel Aviv.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Encyclopedia of Jewish Women
  2. ↑ Obituary Arutz 7, February 14, 2006 (English)
  3. ↑ List of the 1988 award winners (Hebrew)
  4. ↑ Haaretz, June 28, 2010

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SURNAME Damari, Shoshana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES שושנה דמארי (Hebrew)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli singer
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Dhamar , Yemen
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 2006
Place of death Tel Aviv