Miri Aloni
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Miri Aloni מירי אלוני | |
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 Miri Aloni, Ein Gen Festival Ein Gev, 2014 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | December 25, 1949 Givatayim, Israel |
| Genres | Folk, Pop, Israeli music |
| Occupation | Singer |
| Instrument | Guitar |
| Years active | 1968–present |
Miri Aloni (Hebrew: מירי אלוני; born December 25, 1949) is an Israeli singer and actress. Already being a popular singer, she had become an iconic figure after singing "Shir Lashalom" ("Song for Peace") minutes before the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.[1]
Biography
[edit]Aloni was born in Givatayim.
Aloni enlisted into the Israel Defense Forces in 1968, serving in the Nahal band. In the seventies and eighties she played in various bands, including Apocolypse, and had major roles in several movies and TV series.
Minutes before Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was murdered at a political rally in November 1995, Miri Aloni sang the song "Shir Lashalom" ("Song for Peace", of which she was the first performer[2]).
She lived in Germany from 1999 to 2002. In 2006, Nitzan Gilady made a video of her life: Singing to Oblivion – The Story of Miri Aloni.
In later years, she was known for her street performances at Carmel Market in Tel Aviv.[3] She started doing this in 2003 as a protest against cuts in the governmental subsidies in culture, but, as she explained, she started enjoying this, because it breaks the distance between the singer and the people.[1]
Her last husband was Samuel Omni, and they had two sons, Yirmi and Yossi.[4]
In 2021 her leg was amputated after a severe infection, and she spent eight months in a hospital.[5] After an interview, when she asked for help with funding her housing, the assisted housing network Mishan offered her free of charge accommodation in Ramat Ef'al for the rest of her life.[6]
Filmography
[edit]- {{ill|Smart Gamaliel|he|חכם גמליאל (1973)
- Marriage Tel Aviv Style (1979)
- Silent Love (1982)
- Ahava Ilimeth (1985)
She performed the theme songs of the TV series Hedva and Shlomik.
Recordings
[edit]- "Mona Lisa of the Twentieth Century" (1973)
- "Women from Brecht"
- "Drop of Love (Ahava peep)" (1987)
- "A Little Bit of Love" (2002)
References
[edit]- ^ a b Meredith Price, Right Place, Wrong Time, Jewish Journal, December 9, 2009
- ^ תכנית 22 - בהיאחזות הנח"ל בסיני
- ^ Leor Melamedov, Miri Aloni, Still Singing For Peace, The Times of Israel, May 9, 2014
- ^ Israeli folk icon to star as evil granny
- ^ אחרי יותר משמונה חודשים: מירי אלוני השתחררה מבית החולים, ynet, March 21, 2022
- ^ אחרי הפרסום ב-ynet: נמצא פתרון דיור למירי אלוני, ynet, February 14, 2022
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