Boaz Sharabi is a successful musician, well-known writer and composer, but first and foremost – a soul singer, one of the giants known to the State of Israel. Thanks to his unique tone of voice, which Raabi manages to shake the hearts of his listeners from the early 1970s to the present, and does so with great grace and charm, reserved only for him.
He entered our lives with the single ‘Pamela’, which he initially performed in English. Months later he embraced his first album, and in 1972 decided to take part in the Singing and Choral Festival with the single ‘Live and Live’ written by Dudu Barak. Sharabi, who composed the uplifting lyrics, came in second at the festival, and thanks to that he continued to establish his status as a successful singer.
During the Yom Kippur War, Sharabi served as a soldier in the entertainment team, and together with his friend Uzi Hitman recorded the song “Who knew it would be like this.” The single was also included in Sharabi’s second album, which was also composed of singles in Hebrew and English alike. During his extensive career he chose to move to the US, but before he left he recorded the single ‘The Lee Night’, which is considered one of his biggest hits. A few years later the singer Zohar Argov renewed it.
Since returning to Israel in 1983, through Sharabi’s star. Successful albums such as “I’m All Right” (1984), “Wish” (1987), “Moving and Moving” (1989), “When You Touch Me” (1998) and “Excited” (2000), have established Sharabi’s status as one of the creators Central and beloved in Israeli music. Suffice it to mention temporary songs, such as ‘Give’, ‘Wish’, ‘Sing with you’, ‘Give me a hand’, ‘I wish’ and ‘If you still love me’, which have become ironclad assets in Hebrew music. All these and many others are woven into the special editing of ‘Shabbat Ivrit’, conducted by the editor Yoav Hanani, which is lovingly presented to you in honor of his birthday.
We at 103fm are happy to accompany Sharabi’s 75th birthday with sounds that make up the musical history of us all, thank him for his heartwarming music, and wish him many more years of exciting work and creativity. Mazel Tov!
Special edited song list:
- I wish
- Riddle me
- Smile and live
- free and happy
- Once to love (Ilanit)
- Pamela
- Sometimes I feel like I need wings
- Who knew it was all
- Selling the kernels
- Sing with you (with Shoshana Damari)
- A place in the heart (with Arkid Duchin, Leah Shabbat and Shlomi Shabbat)
- wish
- Give
- Ivria (Rivka Zohar)
- Was strong
- When you come
- The bad guys
- Bab al Wad
- The Olive Men
- Breathe
- You’re my night
- Give me a hand
- I am fine
- Kabalini
- Still here (Shoshana Damari)
- If you still love me
- When you touch me
- Let’s talk about it
- Look who came back
- The longest night in the world (Friday Rainbow)
- The Districts of Love (Yardena Arazi)
- What will the wind bring with it (with Yehoram Gaon)
- Shalom Aleichem (with Matti Caspi)
- Ringoli (Ilan and Ilanit)
- Dror will read
- Song of Songs
- I walk through the alleys
- Do not forget
- White-winged love
- As long as the
- Eilat (Daklon)
- And despite
- Do not leave
- Power to keep going
- Pinches my heart
- Wanderer
- I’m happy for you
- Happy holiday Love of my life (with Maya Avraham)
- If there is love in the world
- an eternal covenant
- I wish (with Valerie Butter)