Showing posts with label Israel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Israel. Show all posts

Monday, 12 September 2011

1999: Dafna Dekel & Sigal Shahamon & Yigal Ravid

The only one with a wiki page is Dafna Dekel.

Dafna Dekel (born on 7 May 1966, in Ashdod, Israel) is an Israeli singer, actress and television personality.

Dafna Dekel was discovered while serving in the Nahal entertainment troupe of the Israel Defense Forces in 1985-1986. After her release from the army, Dekel was cast in the Israeli musical Salah Shabati produced in honor of Israel's 40th anniversary. In 1989 she released her first self-titled album. Although the album had 4 songs written and/or composed by Dekel, her biggest hits were songs written for her by others. In 1989, she sang in the children's holiday show "Festigal" with the song "Mah koreh li?" (What's happening to me?) and performed a Yemenite medley with Ofra Haza and Margalit Tsanani.
In 1992, Dekel won the "Kdam" (the Israeli pre-selection to the Eurovision Song Contest with "Zeh raq sport" (It's just sports). Dekel represented Israel in Sweden, winning 85 points and reaching 6th place. For the next three years, she was a regular on "Pilei Klaim" (Stage Wonders), a popular children's show. She released her second self-titled album in 1994.
She took part in the 1995 Festigal, coming in third, and the 1999 Festigal. That year she also hosted the Eurovision Song Contest held in Jerusalem, along with Yigal Ravid and Sigal Shachmon.[1][2] She appeared in several children's videos and then hosted "Dafna and Doo-Di-Doo," a television show for children.
In 2001 Dekel starred in the musical "Shilgiya" (Snow White) and composed the songs. Towards the end of the run, she continued to perform despite the death of her mother. She appeared in "Agadat Deshe" (A Grass Tale), a drama series that ran for two seasons. [3]
In March 2008 Dafna Dekel released the single "Yoman yakar" (Dear Diary), the first song from her third album "Yoman" (diary). She wrote and composed most of the lyrics in collaboration with her brothers, who are also musicians.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dafna_Dekel

Dafna as a contestant in Sweden in 1992.
Dafna (left) with her co-hosts Sigal Shahamon (middle) and Yigal Ravid (right). 
Dafna Dekel

Yigal Ravid

Sigal Shahamon

Wednesday, 31 August 2011

1979: Yardena Arazi & Daniel Pe'er

Yardena Arazi (Hebrew: ירדנה ארזי‎; b. September 25, 1951) is an Israeli singer and entertainer.
Yardena Arazi was born on Kibbutz Kabri and grew up in Haifa. Arazi is the daughter of Jewish immigrants from France and Germany. She joined the Beit Rothschild group at 16 and became its lead vocalist. She did her military service in the Nahal entertainment troupe.[1] Arazi is married to engineer Natan Tomer, with whom she has a daughter.
In the 1970s, Yardena Arazi was a member of the female vocal trio Chocolat, Menta, Mastik along with Lea Lupatin and Ruti Holtzman. The group represented Israel in the 1976 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Emor Shalom ("Say Hello"), placing sixth. In 1979, the Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA) asked Arazi to co-host the Eurovision Song Contest in Jerusalem. Her connection with the song contest continued when she sang in the Israeli finals of 1982, 1983 and 1985. In 1987 she co-hosted the event and in 1988 she was selected by IBA to sing the Israeli entry. Arazi went to Dublin with the song Ben Adam ("Human Being"), which came in seventh. Arazi co-hosted Cafe Telad, a Channel Two morning chat show, from 1997-2005.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yardena_Arazi

Even at the age of 60 she is still beautiful.
Daniel Pe'er (Hebrew: דניאל פאר born in 1943) is an Israeli television host and Newsreader.
In 1979 Pe'er hosted the twenty fourth Eurovision Song Contest held in the Israel capital Jeruslam alongside Yardena Arazi. Pe'er continued to be associated with Eurovision, hosting Kdam Eurovision (the Israeli heat to choose the artist to represent Israel), which he hosted from 1981 until 1983 and again in 1986, he also gave the Israeli results out in 1992 and 1995.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Pe%27er

Presenters 1990s

1990 Helga Vlahovic & Oliver Mlakar (Yugoslavia / Croatia)
1991 Gigliola Cinquetti & Toto Cutugno (Italy)
1992 Lydia Capolicchio & Harald Treutiger (Sweden)
1993 Fionnuala Sweeney (Ireland)
1994 Cynthia Ní Mhurchu & Gerry Ryan (Ireland)
1995 Mary Kennedy (Ireland)
1996 Ingvild Bryn & Morten Harket (Norway)
1997 Carrie Crowley & Ronan Keating (Ireland)
1998 Ulrika Jonsson & Terry Wogan (UK)
1999 Dafna Dekel & Sigal Shachmon & Yigal Ravid  (Israel)

Presenters 70s

1970 Willy Dobbe (The Netherlands)
1971 Bernadette Ní Ghallchóir (Ireland)
1972 Moira Shearer (UK)
1973 Helga Guitton (Luxembourg)
1974 Katie Boyle (UK)
1975 Karin Falck (Sweden)
1976 Corry Brokken (The Netherlands)
1977 Angela Rippon (UK)
1978 Denise Fabre & Léon Zitrone (France)
1979 Yardena Arazi & Daniel Pe'er (Israel)