Singer Miri Aloni released this morning (Wednesday) a new single called “To the God of the Words” – the first song she publishes since her leg amputation surgery at the end of 2021.
Behind the new song “To the God of Words” is a chilling story: Miri received a request from the well-known “Mosifim al Haor” festival, in which disabled people compete in songwriting, and she was asked to perform voluntarily and sing the song that won first place in the competition in question. As a woman who herself had recently become disabled, she positively agreed to the request.
What Miri didn’t know is that the guy whose song won is a relative of hers, this is Nohar Shanir, now 46 years old who was injured as an 11-year-old boy in a car accident and as a result became disabled with a very severe head injury, and despite this he is a creator who writes songs, stories, plays and is also a gifted painter.
Nohar is the son of the well-known children’s writer Mirik Shanir, who is a cousin of Miri Aloni whose grandmothers were sisters. What makes the story so special and exciting is that until the evening of the competition, Miri could not contact the lyricist since the win was to be revealed only on the evening of the show and Miri did not know that she had actually agreed to sing the song of her talented relative Noher, whose identity and song remained confidential according to the rules of the competition.