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Shoshana Damari

Soshana Damari (March 31st 1923 – February 14, 2006) was an Israeli singer and
actress born in Yemen, who received the nickname “Queen of Hebrew singing”.

Shoshana became famous even before Israel’s independence. She started
performing at the age of 14 and performed mainly during the War of

Independence and the first years of the country, and enjoyed a long period of
popularity in Israel.
Damari’s concerts were so moving, that from all of the audience’s crying and
excitement, she was unable to complete the songs through many times. Quickly
she became a famous singer and audiences rushed to her concerts. Damari
maintained all of the years a unique and personal dress style, which included
embroidered dresses and many jewelries. Her exotic style of dress was part of the
charm and the reason why she was invited to perform in many Jewish
communities.

In 2005 Damari sang with Idan Reichel two songs he had written for the album
“From the Deep”: “A Leaf Carried in the Wind” and “Enlighten our Eyes”. The
two even began rehearsing for a joint show, which Shoshana didn’t get to do.
In one of the last interviews she gave ‘Yedioth Ahronot’, she said: “It’s good to
know that I’m leaving so much behind me, that I knew how to give pleasures to an
entire nation”. Shoshana Damari passed away on February 14th 2006 in ‘Ichilov’
hospital in Tel Aviv, at age 83, after catching a bad pneumonia.
In the festivities of Israel’s sixtieth anniversary in 2008, Damari was chosen to be
“The Singer of the Sixtieth”, the most beloved singer in the sixty years of the
country, in a vote done by the first channel and ‘Reshet Gimmel’ radio.
Shoshana Damari’s song in this book: ‘To Sing With You’.

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