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Shoshana Damari ( Hebrew: שושנה דמארי; March 31, 1923 – February 14, 2006) was a Yemeni- Israeli singer known as the "Queen of Hebrew Music." [1] Biography. Moshe Wilensky accompanying Shoshana Damari at a performance at DP camps in Cyprus (ca. 1947–48) Damari in 1961.
May 9, 2014 · Shoshana Damari - live in Israel, 1960 Accompagnied by Moshe Wilensky Kalaniot (Hebrew), Anachnu HaRo'im (Hebrew), Jalisco (Mexican), Yamin Us ...more.
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Shoshana Damari’s lush voice and her fusion of Eastern and Western musical aesthetics made her the voice of a generation in Israeli music. Damari began singing on Kol Yerushalayim radio by the age of fourteen and gave her first solo concert at seventeen.
Damari died of pneumonia in a Tel Aviv hospital on February 14, 2006. She was 83. Following her death, the Knesset and Beit Hanassi also released a statement saying “Her voice unified the whole nation and spread optimism and hope.”
Jan 2, 2022 · Shoshana Damari, 'Queen of Israeli Song,' Dies at 83. Damari worked on behalf of the Zionist enterprise in the years preceding and following the establishment of the State of Israel. At the time, a culture of modesty reigned. The pomp and glitter of her performances defied that culture.
Feb 14, 2006 · Shoshana Damari, whose voice came to embody the emerging nation of Israel and comforted its people during their most trying times, died Tuesday after suffering from pneumonia. She was 83.
Feb 15, 2006 · JERUSALEM, Feb. 14 - Shoshana Damari, one of Israel's most popular singers, with a career dating back to the founding of the state, died on Tuesday in Tel Aviv. She was 83. The cause...
