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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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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.
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.”
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.
A Yemeni-born Israeli singer, Shoshana Damari became known as the “Queen of Hebrew Music.” Born to a Jewish family in Dhamar, Yemen, Shoshana Damari made aliyah with her family because of growing anti-Semitic persecution, settling in Rishon Lezion, Israel.
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.
