Elisa Gabbai

Elisa ( Alisa ) Gabbai ( born December 31, 1933, Tel Aviv, British Mandate of Palestine, † December 14, 2010 in Los Angeles ) was an Israeli singer, who was known by some chart success in Germany.

Biography and artistic career

Elisa Gabbais mother was an opera singer. Her father died very early. The first small musical successes they had in their home country. Published in 1962 in Israel, their first LP with 17 Israeli folk songs. In 1965, the singer in Switzerland, where she had accepted an engagement in a nightclub. There they heard a Berlin music publisher who took them under contract.

1966, Elisa Gabbai, titled Winter in Canada (composed by Christian Bruhn, text by Georg Buschor ) a big hit in Germany. The song was created in 1974 was covered by Mireille Mathieu, and later still by Gitte Hænning and Ingrid Peters.

At the German Schlager- Festival 1966 in Baden -Baden, she had another hit with the title only when you're with me, who took 2nd place behind Wenche Myhre. According to a third chart listing with Gone are the tears could they account for no more success more in Germany. In 1967 at Ariola LP My World Of Songs ( with songs, among others in English, French, Spanish and neuhebräischer language ), and was praised on the back cover: "With the album ' My World Of Songs' baffled Elisa Gabbai her admirers, whose number is likely to multiply now. The successful pop singer ... proves that she is a serious, serious folk performer. "

The artist joined in 1967 by Hansa label to Decca, but the hoped-for success never came. In 1973, she appeared as Alisa Gabbai again in the ZDF hit parade with the titles published by Metronome Can not you see, can not you hear on a German version of the Donna Hightower This World Today's Hits A Mess.

On July 14, 1975 their daughter Daphna was born in Germany. In 1978 the family moved to New York. Then there was silence for the singer, who withdrew from the public. Most recently, she lived in Los Angeles (USA), where she died on December 14, 2010.