
	Where results make sense

Topic: Ofra Haza

Related Topics

Eurovision Song Contest 1983

Eurovision Song Contest 2000

Eurovision Song Contest 1977

Eurovision Song Contest 1975

Eurovision Song Contest 2002

Wye River Accords

Eurovision Song Contest 2005

Andrew Eldritch

Stefan Raab

Temani

Music of Israel

Yemenite Hebrew language

Paula Abdul

Yemenite Jews

Culture of Israel

In the News (Sun 6 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Ofra Haza Page in Fuller Up, The Dead Musician Directory
		Haza, the youngest of nine siblings in a Yemenite Jewish family who lived in the Hatikvah slum of Tel Aviv, was discovered at age 12 by a talent scout.
		Haza was born in the poor Hatikva district of Tel Aviv, one of nine
		Inspired by the ancient melodies taught to her by her mother, in 1985 Haza recorded Yemenite Songs, which featured traditional instruments as well as lyrics drawn from the 16th century poetry of Shalom Shabazi; not only a major hit at home, the album was also a worldbeat smash in England as well.
	elvispelvis.com /ofrahaza.htm (1392 words)

	About the Videos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ofra Haza came from humble beginnings and throughout her life remained appreciative of her family, friends and fans.
		Ofra Haza’s songs are rooted in her own culture while reaching across cultures as well.
		Haza in concert and these videos are just a reminder of her great performances.
	home.comcast.net /~ofrahazavids/html/about_the_videos.html (1263 words)

	Ofra Haza - Biography
		From her triumphant debut on the stage of the Montreux Jazz Festival to sell-out performances in Tokyo, the United States, and Canada, Ofra Haza constantly pushed at and crossed the frontiers of musical life.
		Ofra Haza worked with film composer Edward Shearmur in the preparation of the Sony Classical soundtrack for the romantic film, The Governess, by writer/director Sandra Goldbacher.
		Ofra Haza's contribution to The Prayer Cycle is more than just a performance among celebrated artists; it could be seen to represent her recent efforts in the cause for peace.
	www.sonyclassical.com /artists/haza/bio.html (318 words)

	World Music Central - Your connection to World Music
		Ofra Haza's talent was first recognized in the children's theater group she belonged to in her poor Tel Aviv Hatikvah neighborhood.
		Ofra sang in Hebrew, Aramaic, English and Arabic, covering a wide range of styles, from religious hymns to songs supporting peace in the Middle East peace, with frequent evocations to her people's past in the Yemenite desert.
		Ofra Haza died in Tel Aviv on February 23, at the age of 41.
	www.worldmusiccentral.org /artists/artist_page.php?id=472 (393 words)

	CNN.com - Entertainment - Israeli singer Ofra Haza in intensive care - February 17, 2000
		TEL AVIV, Israel -- Ofra Haza, the Israeli singer whose Yemeni melodies have made her known throughout the world, is in serious condition at a Tel Aviv hospital.
		Haza's family, the Post reported, decided to release information about her condition after rumors that she was on her deathbed spread.
		Haza, who is in her early 40s, was born in Israel to immigrants from Yemen, who lived in a poor part of Tel Aviv.
	edition.cnn.com /2000/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/17/ofra.haza (474 words)

	Ofra Haza & Me
		Ofra Haza came on, and I was delirious with excitement that I might actually meet her within an hour.
		Ironically, a year ago I asked Ofra Haza (via her manager) to contribute an essay to or write the foreword for my forthcoming anthology, Behind the Veil of Silence: Middle Eastern and North African Jewish Women Speak Out, a collection of personal stories about transcending the struggles in Mizrahi women's lives.
		I was distraught when I learned Ofra Haza preferred to die rather than take treatment and risk public knowledge of her disease.
	www.loolwa.com /articles/pgs/ofra.html (2308 words)

	mtv.com - News - Israeli Singer Ofra Haza Dies
		Ofra Haza, the Israeli pop singer whose voice was sampled on M.A.R.R.S.' international dance hit "Pump Up The Volume," died Wednesday night in Tel Aviv, Israel after suffering multiple organ failure caused by an unknown illness.
		Haza, who was born in Tel Aviv on November 19, 1957, began her music career in the early '70s and recorded several award-winning albums after joining a theatre troupe at the age of 12.
		Haza was sampled by Eric B and Rakim on 1987's "Paid In Full," a portion of which M.A.R.R.S. used for "Pump Up The Volume." In 1992, Haza was nominated for a Grammy Award for her "Kirya" LP, which featured a guest appearance from Lou Reed.
	www.mtv.com /news/articles/1429988/20000224/story.jhtml (614 words)

	Ofra Haza Greatest Hits by Ian White
		When Ofra Haza died in February of 2000 from complications relating to AIDS, Israel lost one of its most renown international singing stars and the Sephadic community of Israel lost one of its most renown children.
		Haza was born in nineteen fifty-seven to Yemenite parents who had fled their home in Yemen as a result of Muslin persecution of its Jewish population.
		Haza's traditional Yemenite style blended well with dance, club, trance, and traditional Israeli music making her one of the Middle East's most successful and accessible artists.
	www.enjoythemusic.com /Magazine/music/0901/haza.htm (497 words)

	Amazon.ca: Fifty Gates of Wisdom: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ofra Haza was one of those rare singers who did not need accompanyment, just her voice alone soaring high was all we needed.
		Ofra was a jewish woman, bred in Israel, between jews, but she never forgot her arabs roots, yemenites, and sang for arabs and jews with the same beauty and talent of always.
		We were all more fortunate-- and blessed-- for having had Ofra Haza's voice for at least the short span of her life.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000000E2E (771 words)

	CNN.com - Entertainment - Israelis mourn death of singer Ofra Haza - February 24, 2000
		Haza was the youngest of nine children born to Yemenite immigrants.
		Haza's 1993 album "Kirya" was nominated for a Grammy, and she had the honor of performing in Oslo, Norway, when Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, then-Foreign Minister Peres and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994.
		Haza is survived by her husband, businessman Doron Ashkenazi, whom she married two years ago.
	edition.cnn.com /2000/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/24/haza.obit (589 words)

	Created with DiDaPro
		Yardena and Ofra were competitive singers and this was an excellent stage for both of them to give the nation a hell of a fight, and that's how it was.
		The winner this time was Ofra Haza with her song "Hi" (Alive).
		Ofra Haza, the most succesful Israeli singer ever, had died of AIDS on the 23 of February 2000.
	www.geocities.com /SunsetStrip/Arena/2013/1983.html (328 words)

	Über Ofra Haza (Texte aus dem Internet)
		Even after she left Israel to achieve fame and fortune in Europe and the US, Ofra Haza was still "our girl." Her accomplishments boosted the country, as we saw her reach a level of international success that no other Israeli pop singer had achieved.
		With the encouragement of the group's founder Bezalel Aloni, who later became her manager, Haza took on stronger and more demanding leading roles within the Hatikva group, and by the time she was 19, her solo career was launched.
		Haza focused on the international arena, relocating to Los Angeles, but she returned home a number of times each year for performances and visits.
	www.uni-oldenburg.de /musik-for/klezmer/politbildung/ofra_haza.htm (1009 words)

	World Peace
		Ofra's family wailed as the grave was covered with earth and a pair of Yemenite rabbis uttered the traditional prayers.
		Haza reportedly told her family and friends when she was admitted into the hospital that information about her condition should not be made public.
		Ofra was featured in Asi Dayan's 1979 film, Shlagger, and the song she sang in the film quickly climbed to the top of the Israeli charts.
	worldpeace.htmlplanet.com (8382 words)

	Remembering Ofra Haza
		She sat in the long, narrow living room listening to her own soundtrack recording of the lament Yocheved, Moses' mother, sang as she launched the infant lawgiver into the bulrushes in Steven Spielberg's "The Prince of Egypt".
		Tensed in a cozy chair beneath half a dozen golden discs, Ofra -- tiny, dark and lean as a waif -- shut her eyes tightly, swayed to the music and rubbed both arms as if her life depended on it.
		Ofra rejoiced in her success, but the joy owed more to wonder than vanity.
	www.jewishjournal.com /old/silver.3.3.0.htm (864 words)

	Sha!: Friday Miscellaneous Pop Culture Entry #30 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Haza was born in 1957 in the Hatikva neighborhood of south Tel Aviv.
		Haza was one of nine children from a traditional Yemenite family.
		Haza's "Chai", at least in the completely unbiased opinion of this viewer -- then aged 12 -- was the best one by a longshot.
	www.shaister.com /archives/000621.html (1970 words)

	[No title]
		Haza crossed cultural boundaries with her voice, a tender mezzo-soprano that was equally at home with the finely turned ornaments of Middle Eastern music and the phrasing of Western-style pop.
		Haza proudly asserted her background as a Yemenite Jew, performing in elaborately beaded and brocaded traditional clothing.
		Haza was born in the poor Hatikva district of Tel Aviv, one of nine children.
	www.smoe.org /lists/alloy/v05.n045 (1183 words)

	Amazon.com: Shirey Moledet, Pt. 3: Music: Ofra Haza (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		With the release of Ofra Haza's Shirey Moledet series of folksongs, the title of Queen of Israeli folk musical culture was passed to her from her predecessors: Israeli Yemenite singers Hanna Ahroni, and Shoshana Damari.
		Ofra's voice on this CD and on all her folksongs is superior to all of the other female Israeli folk singers I know of, those mentioned above as well as fellow Yemenite folk singer Sarah Aviani, and folk singer Shulamit Livnat.
		Ofra returns to her Israeli roots with this 1987 recording of folksongs.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000024BJJ?v=glance (621 words)

	Video Comments
		If I have friends over who have never heard of Ofra Haza, this is the one I play for them.
		Haza in a live performance, but this video is quite nice and less than 10 megs in size, for those who are broadband challenged.
		I have never seen Ofra dancing like that, dressed like that, and it really looks like she had the time of her life.
	pages.sbcglobal.net /ofrahazavideos/html/video_comments.html (848 words)

	[No title]
		EST (1724 GMT) From news and wire reports TEL AVIV, Israel -- Ofra Haza, the Israeli singer whose Yemeni melodies have made her known throughout the world, is in serious condition at a Tel Aviv hospital.
		Newspapers offered up headlines saying that "Ofra Haza is fighting for her life," and "Ofra Haza's condition remains a mystery." Since she's been in the hospital, some fans have posted Internet sites dedicated in her honor, and others have camped outside the intensive care unit to pray.
		I can't accept it." Haza, who is in her early 40s, was born in Israel to immigrants from Yemen, who lived in a poor part of Tel Aviv.
	www.smoe.org /lists/alloy/v05.n040 (2105 words)

	Flash 1
		By that time, I was dancing with my homies on the stage--centerstage, if I would wiggle in there--and on hearing Ofra and, usually, seeing her on the three large video screens, would raise my arms in tribute to her, thanks to Doug, and announcement that the dance of my life was about to begin.
		Ofra then invited the audience to join her on the stage.
		Ofra was, in affect, an emissary for Israeli culture--its first bonafide "pop star," whatever that means.
	www.danceinsider.com /f229.html (1786 words)

	Ofra Haza cds, best songs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		ofra haza's best songs + new songs and guest artists appearances.
		It is hard to write dispassionately about Ofra Haza, the Israeli pop icon who died last week at 41.
		She sang her fusion of Yemenite folk and '80s beat with intense, unabashed emotion.
	www.israel-catalog.com /seo/ofra-haza.html (88 words)

	Ofra Haza : Yemenite Songs - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		Ofra Haza's death on February 23, 2000, at the age of 41 deprived the world of a lovely woman, a great vocalist, and a fearless cultural advocate.
		Fifty Gates of Wisdom, her 1985 album of boldly reimagined traditional Yemenite songs, brought her international fame, and decades later, it retains its ability to delight and inspire.
		In Haza's hands, these sinuous tunes are further spiced up by drum machines and synthesizers, pumping out the hypnotic dance beats that catapulted the album onto dancefloors throughout the world.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,100337,00.html (369 words)

	The Jerusalem Post Internet Edition - Remembering Ofra Haza (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Raised as the youngest of nine children to a traditional Yemenite family in the Hatikva neighborhood of Tel Aviv, Haza's fairy-tale climb to fame and fortune has become the stuff of local legend.
		After serving two years in the IDF she recorded her first solo album and quickly rose to become one of the country's top singers.
		Haza continued to appear in many projects in recent years, including the DreamWorks Prince of Egypt soundtrack and The Governess soundtrack, both in 1998.
	info.jpost.com /2000/Supplements/OfraHaza/article2.html (482 words)

	Paula-Abdul.net \| Singer Ofra Haza Dies at Age 42
		Feb 24, 2000, 11:50 am PT Ofra Haza Israeli singer Ofra Haza, who took a liturgical song of the Jews of Yemen and turned it into a worldwide hit, died of massive organ failure in Tel Aviv yesterday at the age of 42, after nearly two weeks in the hospital.
		At her family's request, the cause of her hospitalization has not been disclosed.
		Haza was the youngest of nine children born in the poor Hatikvah area of Tel Aviv.
	www.paula-abdul.net /html/article_8.html (278 words)

	OFRA HAZA (Nov. 19, 1957 - Feb. 23, 2000) - including RealAudio interview, original photos, memories, links
		Also be sure to read OFRA HAZA REMEMBERED by Tom Schnabel.
		Ofra Haza: 1957-2000 - Links to news stories about tragic death.
		Ofra Haza: English translations - Lyrics to songs from Fifty Gates of Wisdom.
	www.electricearl.com /ofrahaza.html (283 words)

	The Essential Joan - Silence = Death
		Ofra Haza, a singer with her magnificant voice, oh surely, the world should have known.
		Despite all the wealth that could have paid for any amount of medical attention, Ofra suffered in silence, never revealing to anyone the source of her illness.
		Ofra's family didn't want the truth out and tried to sue Ha'aretz for publishing the cause of her death.
	www.aztriad.com /jl061903.html (728 words)

	TrouserPress.com :: Ofra Haza
		Whether or not music is indeed the universal language, the fact is that if you slap on a contemporary dance beat, people will buy just about anything, no matter how exotic its origins.
		Such is the case with Yemenite singer Ofra Haza, who funked up ancient Hebrew music and became the international darling of folks who would never bother to borrow an ethnic record from the public library.
		Bits of Shaday (mostly done with British producer Wally Brill) are intriguing blends of strange and familiar sounds (a bit reminiscent in approach to Monsoon), but most of the LP is horrible globopop disco (in English) that could almost be mistaken for Gloria Estefan.
	www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=ofra_haza (142 words)

	Ofra Haza Discography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ofra wrote all the songs except "Hake'ev Haze" (This Pain Of Mine), which was co-written by Ofra and the records producer Izhar Ashdot.
		This double CD contains 24 songs covering Ofra's first seven albums, and many are considered Ofra's greatest and most popular hits in Israel.
		Some english versions to Ofra's old songs can also be found like "Fighter", English version of "Itcha Halaila" (from "Bait Ham").
	www.hrmusic.com /discos/ohdisc.html (458 words)

	Israeli Singer Ofra Haza Dies at 41 -- 02/24/2000
		Zeev Rortenstein said Haza died of complete organ failure after having been hospitalized 13 days ago with what were described at the time as flu complications.
		At 12, Haza joined a local theatre group and took on more and more challenging roles until her solo career was launched at age 19.
		The late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin asked Haza to sing at the 1994 Nobel Peace ceremony when he, former Prime Minister Shimon Peres, and Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat jointly were awarded the prize.
	www.cnsnews.com /ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=\ForeignBureaus\archive\1998-2000\GLO20000224a.html (635 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)