Mira Awad阿拉伯裔以色列女歌手、演员、词曲作者。她是第一个代表以色列参加欧洲电视网歌曲大赛的阿拉伯歌手。
Biography
Israeli Palestinian singer, songwriter and actress.
Born in Rama village in the Galilee, to Palestinian father-Anwar, and Bulgarian mother-Snejanka, currently living in Tel-Aviv.
She studied at the Rimon School for Jazz and Contemporary Music.
Mira has collaborated with a wide range of world-famous musicians: Noa (Achinoam Nini), Idan Raichel on his second album “Mema’amakim”, with Greek singer George Dalaras, and the hip hop artist Guy Mar and world famous opera star Andrea Bocelli. Mira also worked as an actress with the Tel-Aviv Cameri Theatre, she was also the Eliza Doolittle of the Israeli staging of the world renown musical “My fair lady”, and stars on the TV series “Arab Labor”. She featured in the movie “The Bubble”, directed by Eytan Fox and recorded the theme songs for the films “Forgiveness” by director Udi Aloni, and “Lemon tree” by Eran Riklis. She participated in the 5th season of the Israeli version of “Dancing with the stars”. She represented Israel in the Eurovision song contest 2009 alongside Noa with the song “There must be another way” from their duet album carrying the same name, released by Universal Music. Her debut solo album “Bahlawan-Acrobat” was released in May 2009, and was produced by Israeli famous guitarist Amos Ever-Hadani. She was signed as a Sony Spain artist last year and has just released her second album “All my faces” with Spanish musical producer Carlos Jean.
Mira is very much identified with the agenda of dialogue and co-existence between the Jewish and the Palestinian people, and has dedicated most of her career for raising a call for peace.
