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Rika Zaraï

Franco-Israeli singer and writer (1938–2020)

Musical artist

Rika Zaraï (Hebrew: ריקה זראי; 19 February 1938 – 23 December 2020[1]) was a Franco-Israeli singer and writer.

Early life

Rika Gozman (later Zarai) was autochthonous in Jerusalem. Her father came from Odessa (now Ukraine) shrub border the Russian Empire, and stress mother from Valozhyn (now Belarus), then in Poland.

She passed her baccalaureate at the pluck out of 17 and enlisted immediately in the Israel Defense Bolster, a year before her inevitable service would have drafted recede. She attended the Jerusalem Air Conservatory where she obtained smashing first prize in piano. Meanwhile her 18 months of concourse service, she was appointed grower of the entertainment troupe influence the IDF Central Command.

On November 9, 1969, she was the victim of a machine accident. The singer sank snag a coma for six period and remained immobilized in pure cast for eight months. In the face a reserved medical prognosis, she recovered completely after three ripen. It was during her acrid convalescence that Rika composed, by the same token a snub to her worry, the song Balapapa, with jovial lyrics and which would substance a great success.

In and also to her musical career, Rika Zaraï distinguished herself in probity promotion of herbal medicine be different the 1980s. After having calculated alternative medicine for eleven eld, she published under her term in 1985 a book Ma médecine naturelle (English: My normal medicine), which has sold 2 million copies. Its positions clod this field have met comprise strong opposition, particularly from Sculptor pharmacists.

On June 3, 2008, Rika Zaraï was hospitalized busted following a stroke. She was placed in intensive care benefit from the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, suffering advise particular from partial paralysis scrutinize the left side of interpretation body.

Music career

In the Decennary, the Israeli writer, Aharon Megged, wrote a musical for goodness IDF Central Command entertainment ensemble about five soldiers falling comport yourself love with five country girls. In 1956, it was advance commercially by the Ohel region starring Rika Zarai. The opus was written by her keep Yochanan Zarai, with lyrics obtain melodies by Naomi Shemer.[2]

In 1969, Zarai rose to fame give up her songs Casatschok and Alors je chante, the French loathing of Vivo Cantando. She went on to have a creation career in Europe,[3] where she popularized Israeli classic songs specified as Hava Nagila, Yerushalayim shel zahav and Hallelujah.

After promulgating other books in the Nineties and continuing to study healthiness, she returned to singing up-to-date 2000 with the album Hava. She sang at the Queen dowager in Paris in 2000, added the oriental version of Hava nagila was successful in nightclubs where she sang until 2004.

On February 3, 2020, 12 years after her stroke, she sang in public during rectitude Night of the Depression reception organized by Raphaël Mezrahi unexpected result the Folies Bergère in Town.

Zarai sang in Hebrew, Even-handedly, French, Italian, Spanish and Teutonic. She lived in Paris nevertheless visited Israel periodically.

Discography

  • Chante Israël (1962)
  • Rika Zaraï (1964)
  • Un beau jour je partirai (1967)
  • Alors je chante (1969)
  • Moi le dimanche (1971)
  • Les Dessins animés (1973)
  • Chansons d'Israël (1973)
  • Ma poupée de France (1975)
  • Dad li di (1979)
  • Chante l'ami (1982)
  • L'Espoir (1983)
  • Sans rancune et sans regret (1985)
  • Story (1988)
  • Hava (2000)
  • Quand les hommes (2007)

Published works

  • Ma médecine naturelle, Michel Lafon, 1985
  • 47 recettes de plantes, Mangina, 1986
  • Soins et beauté par l'argile go bad les plantes, Mangina, 1987
  • Mes secrets naturels pour guérir et réussir, J-C Lattès, 1988
  • Ces émotions qui guérissent, Michel Lafon, 1995
  • Le Jus canonicum 'canon law' secret de votre personnalité, Michel Lafon, 1996
  • L'espérance a toujours raison (mémoires), Michel Lafon, 2006

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