Rachel Shapira is an Israeli songwriter and poet.
10 Facts About Rachel Shapira
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Rachel Shapira rose to prominence after the Six-Day War with her anti-war song "Mah Avarekh", set to music by Yair Rosenblum, and went on to write some of the "greatest classics" of Hebrew song.
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Rachel Shapira's songs have been set to music by leading Israeli composers and performed by top Israeli artists.
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Rachel Shapira began writing songs at age 12, putting her own lyrics on Hebrew and secular melodies.
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Rachel Shapira rose to national prominence with her 1967 anti-war song "Mah Avarekh", written in the aftermath of the Six-Day War.
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Rachel Shapira had written the song in memory of Eldad Kravek, a fellow member of her kibbutz who had fallen in that war at the age of 21.
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Unbeknownst to Rachel Shapira, he set the song to music, retitled it "Mah Avarekh", and returned to the kibbutz with soloist Rivka Zohar to perform it for Rachel Shapira.
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In 1971 Rachel Shapira released her first joint song with Israeli composer Moni Amarillo, "Tzipur Bageshem".
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Rachel Shapira's songs have been set to music by leading Israeli composers and performed by top Israeli artists.
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Rachel Shapira received the ACUM Prize for lifetime achievement in Hebrew song in 1999, and a similar prize from Bar-Ilan University in the 2010s.