Rika Zarai
Rika Zarai was born in Jerusalem, Israel on February 19th, 1938 and is the World Music Singer. At the age of 86, Rika Zarai biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Rika Zara (born 19 February 1938) is an Israeli singer and writer. Rika Gozman (later Zarai) was born in Jerusalem.
Aharon Megged, an Israeli writer, wrote a musical about five soldiers who fell in love with five country girls in the 1950s.
It was produced commercially by the Ohel theater starring Rika Zarai in 1956.
Zarai's music, written by her husband Yochanan Zarai, was released in 1969, with lyrics and melodies by Naomi Shemer.
She went on to have a fruitful career in Europe, where she performed Israeli classical songs such as Hava Nagila, Yerushalayim shel zahav, and Hallelujah. Zarai performs in Hebrew, English, French, Italian, Spanish, and German.
She lives in Paris but visits Israel on a regular basis.
She had a stroke that paralyzed the left side of her body, according to a study in the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronoth in 2008.
Early life
Rika Gozman (later Zarai) was born in Jerusalem. Her father, who now live in Ukraine, and her mother from Valozhyn (now Belarus), then Poland, were born in Odessa (now Ukraine).
A year before her compulsory service had drafted her, she passed her baccalaureate and enlisted directly in the Israel Defense Forces. She studied piano at the Jerusalem Music Conservatory, where she received her first prize in piano. She was named producer of the IDF Central Command's entertainment troupe during her 18 months of army service.
She was the victim of a car crash on November 9, 1969. The singer sank into a coma for six days and remained immobilized in a cast for eight months. Despite a tentative medical prognosis, she recovered fully after three years. Rika composed Balapapa, a snub to her pain, with joyful lyrics and a huge success, during her painful convalescence.
Rika Zara also excelled in the field of herbal medicine from the 1980s, in comparison to her musical career. She has been researching alternative medicine for ten years and has published under her name in 1985, Ma médecine naturelle (English: My natural medicine), which has sold 2 million copies. Its positions in this sector have been met with skepticism, particularly French pharmacists.
Following a stroke, Rika Zara was hospitalized urgently on June 3, 2008. She was admitted to intensive care at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, suffering mostly from partial paralysis on the left side of the body.
Music career
Aharon Megged, an Israeli writer, wrote a drama about five soldiers falling in love with five country girls in the 1950s. It was produced commercially by the Ohel theater starring Rika Zarai in 1956. Yochanan Zarai's husband wrote the music, with Naomi Shemer's lyrics and melodies.
Zarai came to fame in 1969 with her songs Casatschok and Alors chante, the French version of Vivo Cantando. She went on to have a fruitful career in Europe, where she popularized Israeli classics such as Hava Nagila, Yerushalayim shel zahav, and Hallelujah.
With the album Hava, she returned to performing in 2000 after releasing other books in the 1990s and continuing to study health. She appeared at the Queen in Paris in 2000 and the oriental version of Hava nagila was very popular in nightclubs where she performed until 2004.
On February 3, 2020, twelve years after her stroke, she performed in public during Raphahi's Night of the Depression Party at the Follies Bergère in Paris.
Zarai performed in Hebrew, English, French, Italian, Spanish, and German. She lived in Paris but went to Israel on occasion.
