72 Facts About Shiri Maimon

Shiri Maimon is an Israeli singer, television personality and actress, who rose to fame as the runner-up in the inaugural season of singing reality competition Kokhav Nolad.

Shiri Maimon represented her native Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005, where she came fourth.

In 2008, Maimon won Best Israeli Act and performed in the MTV Europe Music Awards, where she was nominated for Europe's Favorite Act.

In June 2013, Shiri Maimon became one of the judges for the first season of The X Factor Israel.

Shiri Maimon continued her role for the second and third seasons.

In 2018, it was revealed that Shiri Maimon would leave the show in favor of the rival network show, Rising Star Israel.

In 2018, Shiri Maimon made a starring replacement in the role of Roxie Hart in the Broadway show Chicago.

Shiri Maimon was born in the city of Haifa, Israel; and raised in the neighborhood of Kiryat Haim.

Shiri Maimon family is of both Mizrahi Jewish and Sephardi Jewish descent, both of her parents were born in Israel, in a podcast interview it was revealed that her family roots are from Syria and Algeria.

Shiri Maimon's parents are Mazal and Natan Maimon, and she has an older brother named Rami, an older sister named Livnat, and a younger brother named Asaf.

Shiri Maimon made her debut at the age of ten, when she performed at the Festigal as one of the Festival's children, and sang the song "BeChol Matzav" by Si Heiman.

Shiri Maimon was a presenter on the community channel for several times.

Shiri Maimon enrolled in Beit Zvi school of the Performing Arts, but left a short time after when she found out that she passed the auditions to the reality show Kokhav Nolad.

In 2003 Shiri Maimon signed up for the auditions of the first season of the then-new singing talent show Kokhav Nolad.

Shiri Maimon passed the auditions and made it to the show team.

Shiri Maimon participated in the first semi-final, where she sang "Kshe'at Atzuva" by Amir Benayoun, and won the first place, which secured her participation in the final.

In December 2003, while working on her debut album, Shiri Maimon joined one of the most popular daily youth TV program in Israel, EXIT as a host.

Shiri Maimon was one of the main presenters cast, until her resigning from the show in October 2005.

In November 2004 Shiri Maimon released her first single, "Ad SheTavin Oti", while working on her debut album.

In 2005, Shiri Maimon was offered to take part in the Kdam Eurovision, Israel's Eurovision selection show.

On 2 March Shiri Maimon won the first place in the competition with an overwhelming victory, winning 116 points out of 120 possible, and became Israel's representative at the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv.

Shiri Maimon produced a music video to the song, inspired by the movie The Bodyguard.

Shiri Maimon's managers explained the reason for the many hidden advertisements with funding difficulties, as the IBA network refused to participate in funding of the music video.

Shiri Maimon eventually decided to perform the song half in Hebrew and half in English on the Eurovision stage.

In March 2005, shortly after she became Israel's representative at the Eurovision, Shiri Maimon was chosen to sing the Israeli anthem before a FIFA World Cup qualification match against Ireland.

In July 2005, two months after participating in the Eurovision, Shiri Maimon released her third single, "Ahava Ktana", that gained high success in the radio charts.

In February 2006, on the launch event of her new show tour, Shiri Maimon received a gold album award after the album went gold, selling over 20,000 copies.

Shiri Maimon won the "Person of the Year in Music" award in the "Persons of the Year" awards ceremony.

Shiri Maimon won the title "The Singer of the Year" In the year-end charts of Reshet Gimmel and other different radio stations.

In October 2005 Shiri Maimon released her fourth single, "Kama Pe'amim", that gained good success in the radio charts.

Also in October 2005, Shiri Maimon resigned from presenting the popular daily youth TV program EXIT, where she had been one of the main presenters cast for almost two years.

In January 2006 Shiri Maimon released her fifth single, "Le'an SheLo Telchi", that gained good success in the radio charts.

In March 2006, Shiri Maimon appeared on the soap opera Yeladot Ra'ot on the Israeli Music Channel, where she played the role of Maya Gold, a talented singer and recording star trying to balance her career and her love life with caring for her drug addicted brother.

Also in March 2006, Shiri Maimon made a guest appearance at the Kdam Eurovision 2006 as the previous year winner, singing "Le'an SheLo Telchi".

Shiri Maimon played the role of Noa, originally played by Dafna Armoni.

In June 2007, Shiri Maimon performed with The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, in a tribute concert to Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra.

Shiri Maimon sang a medley of Presley and Sinatra's songs as well as three of her own songs.

In February 2008, Shiri Maimon released the second single from the album, called "KsheHalachta", that gained average success in the radio charts, and became a popular song in memorial days.

In March 2008, Shiri Maimon released the third single from the album, called "Tohavi Ktzat Et Atzmekh", that didn't gain much success in the radio charts.

In June 2008, Shiri Maimon released the fourth single from the album, called "VeRatziti SheTed'i".

In October 2008 Shiri Maimon won the "Best Israeli Act" at the MTV Europe Music Awards.

Later on, in November 2008, Shiri Maimon was voted to be among the top 5 favorite regional acts, which made her one of the five nominees in the "Europe's Favorite Act" category.

Shiri Maimon released a new single that was written especially for the event, called "Chelek Mimcha" in the Hebrew version and "Now That You're Gone" in the English version.

In 2009, in the wake of her MTV Europe Music Awards participation, Shiri Maimon was chosen to take part in the EMI's Global One project, a worldwide project produced by Rob Hoffman, where 35 successful artists from five different continents recorded songs in their native languages.

Shiri Maimon recorded the Hebrew version of the song, "Tamshich Lalechet", which its lyrics she co-wrote with Israeli rapper Ortega, who was featured in the song.

Shiri Maimon took part in the multi-language version of the song.

In December 2009, Shiri Maimon announced her collaboration with Israeli singer Shimon Buskila.

Previously, Shiri Maimon was a guest in Caspi's concert in Rishon LeZion festival in October 2009.

Also in March 2010, Shiri Maimon was chosen to be the endorser of Keren Hayesod organization, in a publicity campaign for the 90th anniversary of the organization in South and Central America.

Shiri Maimon went to perform in Latin America with her songs, as well as different Hebrew songs, and different Spanish songs in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Brazil, Uruguay and more.

In March 2011, Shiri Maimon co-hosted the Kdam Eurovision 2011 alongside Aki Avni.

In June 2012, Shiri Maimon released her first single from her new solo album, "Sheleg BaSharav", that gained good success in the radio charts.

In July 2012, Shiri Maimon released her second single from her new solo album, "Mechaka SheTashuv", that gained average success in the radio charts.

In September 2012, shortly after releasing her new solo album, Shiri Maimon released the third single from the album, "BeSof Yom".

In November 2012, Shiri Maimon released the fourth single from the album, "LaIsha SheHayta".

In February 2013, Shiri Maimon released the fifth single from her solo album, "Kama at Yafa", that didn't gain much success in the radio charts.

In October 2013, Shiri Maimon joined the first season of the reality show "The X Factor Israel" as one of the four judges.

In December 2013, Shiri Maimon participated in the local children's musical theatre "Aladdin VeYasmin", playing the role of Jasmine, alongside Harel Skaat and Eli Yatzpan.

In February 2014, Shiri Maimon collaborated with Israeli singer Muki, when she was featured in his song "Lir'ot Hafuch", which appeared on his new album "Lev Chofshi".

In March 2014 Shiri Maimon started a new show tour, for which she received acclaims from critics.

In January 2015 Shiri Maimon released a new single, "Zchuchiyot", that gained high success in the radio charts, and became the tenth most played song in the Israeli radio in 2015.

In June 2015, Shiri Maimon continued to the second season of the reality show "The X Factor Israel" as one of the four judges.

In July 2015, Shiri Maimon released a new single, "Avir", that gained good success in the radio charts.

In September 2015, Shiri Maimon started playing in the local adaptation for the musical "Evita" in Israel's national theatre, Habima.

Shiri Maimon played the main role of Eva Peron, alongside actors such as Aki Avni and Ran Danker.

In October 2016 Shiri Maimon received the prize of "The Best Actress of the Year" named after Ella Dan by Habima Theatre.

Shiri Maimon performed with the musical around 200 times, until it closed in March 2017.

In January 2016, Shiri Maimon posted in her Facebook account videos asking her fans to help her decide which song she will be covering in the next three shows of her winter show tour.

Shiri Maimon released the live version of the song which was recorded in Reading 3 few days later.

Shiri Maimon had a mesmerizing voice which soothed me and I had ear orgasms even though the song melodiously sung by Shiri Maimon wasn't in my native language or in a language I can fathom easily but it was in Hebrew and shortly afterwards I fell in love with Hebrew language.

In September 2018, Shiri Maimon joined the cast of Broadway's musical production Chicago for a two-week run.

Shiri Maimon has a Portuguese citizenship on account of her Sephardi Jewish ancestors.