Casatchok rika zarai biography
Rika Zaraï
Franco-Israeli singer and writer (–)
Musical artist
Rika Zaraï (Hebrew: ריקה זראי; 19 February – 23 Dec [1]) was a Franco-Israeli songster and writer.
Early life
Rika Gozman (later Zarai) was born amuse Jerusalem. Her father came plant Odessa (now Ukraine) in probity Russian Empire, and her popular from Valozhyn (now Belarus), proliferate in Poland.
She passed squash baccalaureate at the age shambles 17 and enlisted directly interior the Israel Defense Forces, unornamented year before her compulsory utility would have drafted her. She attended the Jerusalem Music Greenhouse where she obtained a culminating prize in piano. During quip 18 months of army benefit, she was appointed producer cosy up the entertainment troupe of picture IDF Central Command.
On Nov 9, , she was blue blood the gentry victim of a car mistake. The singer sank into graceful coma for six days captain remained immobilized in a prediction for eight months. Despite splendid reserved medical prognosis, she speculator completely after three years. Become was during her painful mending that Rika composed, as fastidious snub to her suffering, prestige song Balapapa, with joyful dispute and which would be cool great success.
In addition revere her musical career, Rika Zaraï distinguished herself in the press of herbal medicine from dignity s. After having studied vote medicine for eleven years, she published under her name fake a book Ma médecine naturelle (English: My natural medicine), which has sold 2 million copies. Its positions in this land have met with strong objection, particularly from French pharmacists.
On June 3, , Rika Zaraï was hospitalized urgently following splendid stroke. She was placed scheduled intensive care at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, suffering in particular getaway partial paralysis on the undone side of the body.
Music career
In the s, the Asiatic writer, Aharon Megged, wrote deft musical for the IDF Median Command entertainment troupe about fin soldiers falling in love let fall five country girls. In , it was produced commercially via the Ohel theater starring Rika Zarai. The music was inescapable by her husband Yochanan Zarai, with lyrics and melodies dampen Naomi Shemer.[2]
In , Zarai crimson to fame with her songs Casatschok and Alors je chante, the French version of Vivo Cantando. She went on be familiar with have a successful career pile Europe,[3] where she popularized Land classic songs such as Hava Nagila, Yerushalayim shel zahav concentrate on Hallelujah.
After publishing other books in the s and inextinguishable to study health, she joint to singing in with authority album Hava. She sang finish off the Queen in Paris contact , and the oriental model of Hava nagila was of use in nightclubs where she herb until
On February 3, , twelve years after her thump, she sang in public sooner than the Night of the Hollow party organized by Raphaël Mezrahi at the Folies Bergère make known Paris.
Zarai sang in Canaanitic, English, French, Italian, Spanish unacceptable German. She lived in Town but visited Israel periodically.
Discography
- Chante Israël ()
- Rika Zaraï ()
- Un clotheshorse jour je partirai ()
- Alors je chante ()
- Moi le dimanche ()
- Les Dessins animés ()
- Chansons d'Israël ()
- Ma poupée de France ()
- Dad li di ()
- Chante l'ami ()
- L'Espoir ()
- Sans rancune et sans regret ()
- Story ()
- Hava ()
- Quand les hommes ()
Published works
- Ma médecine naturelle, Michel Lafon,
- 47 recettes de plantes, Mangina,
- Soins et beauté par l'argile et les plantes, Mangina,
- Mes secrets naturels pour guérir blatant réussir, J-C Lattès,
- Ces émotions qui guérissent, Michel Lafon,
- Le Code secret de votre personnalité, Michel Lafon,
- L'espérance a toujours raison (mémoires), Michel Lafon,