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Ofra Haza (עָפְרָה חָזָה natural November 19 1957, died February 23 2000) was a popular Yemenite Israeli singer.
She processed her international debut at a Eurovision Song Contest 1983, which she very narrowly failed to win for Israel sustaining a song "Chai". Ofrthe Haza experienced a worldwide hit within 1988 with "Im Nin' Alu" from a album Shaday. She freed numerous albums including, Ofra Haza (1997), Fifty Gates of Wisdom & numerous kids's song albums.
Her international hits besides involved "Temple of Love (Touched by the Hand of Ofra Haza)" sustaining a Leeds-based post-punk band The Sisters of Mercy in 1992, and "My Love Is for Real" sustaining Paula Abdul in 1995. She likewise sang in the alive film The Prince of Egypt (1998), and "The Governess"(199?).
Her Israeli hits include "Shir ha-Frekha" ("The Teaser Song"), or even "The Tart", a theme from either a flick Shlager, in which she besides acted) & "le-Orekh ha-Yam" ("Along the Shore").
Haza, world health organization come from either a unfortunate Tel Aviv neighborhood of Hatikvah, at one time about a slum arethe, was a profits story & the subject of pride in behalf of numbers of Israelis of Yemenite origin. She died of AIDS within 2000, having contracted the disease from either a transfusion in 1980.
Albums
Ahavah Rishonah (by using Shechunat Hatikvah Workshop Theatre)
Vehutz Mizeh Hakol Beseder (using Shechunat Hatikvah Workshop Theatre)
Atik Noshan (using Shechunat Hatikvah Workshop Theatre)
Shir HaShirim Besha'ashu'im (by using Shechunat Hatikvah Workshop Theatre)
Al Ahavot Shelanu
Bo Nedaber
Petuyim
Hai
Bayt Ham
Adamah
Yamim Nishbarim
Shirey Teyman (Yemenite Songs / Fifty Gates of Wisdom)
Shaday
Shirey Moladet 1
Shirey Moladet 2
Shirey Moladet 3
Desert Wind
Montreux Jazz Festival (survive)
Kirya
Kol Haneshamah
Queen around Exile (unreleased)
Ofra Haza
Soundtracks:
A Governess
A Prince of Egypt
Compilations:
Album HaZahav (Golden Album)
Manginat Halev
Manginat Halev 2
Singles
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|US Hot 100
|US Modern Rock
|US Mainstream Rock
|UK
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| 1988
| "Im Nin' Alu"
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| #18
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| Shaday
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Trivia
Ofra Haza refused inside 1990 to an offer by Michael Jackson to collaborate in the spherical tour.
British DJs Coldcut contributed to the succes of "Im Nina'lu" by using it in their remix of Eric B and Rakim's "Paid in Full".
Ofra Haza's voice got probably a virtually all upper harmonic overtones of any singer withinside history, every now and again reaching when several when 32, in occasionally songs like "Love Song" from either a album "Shaday" (1988).
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