Shmuel 'Shmulik' Kraus was an Israeli pop-rock singer, composer, and actor.
14 Facts About Shmulik Kraus
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Shmulik Kraus appeared in several films, including Rocking Horse and Hole in the Moon, and composed songs for other performers, such as Shalom Hanoch.
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Shmulik Kraus was known for his music for children based on the lyrics of Miriam Yalan-Shteklis.
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Shmulik Kraus was born in the Nahalat Ahim quarter of Jerusalem.
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Shmulik Kraus's mother, Rosa, was a housewife, and his father, Musa, was a driver.
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Shmulik Kraus began his career in the arts by teaching tap dance in Haifa.
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Shmulik Kraus married Josie Katz, who eventually divorced him and left the country in the early 1980s to develop an independent career.
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In March 1971, Shmulik Kraus was arrested for illegal gun possession after threatening Israeli soldiers sent to evict him from a building he had constructed on a plot near Nebi Samuel, which he said he had inherited from his father.
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On February 17,2013, Shmulik Kraus died after being hospitalized with swine influenza.
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Shmulik Kraus began to sing at the end of the 1950s along with Abraham Reichstadt.
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Shmulik Kraus composed and performed the "prairie house", a song written in memory of his father, who was active in the establishment of Kibbutz Beit HaArava.
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Shmulik Kraus became her partner and produced her as a club singer in Eilat and Tel Aviv.
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Shmulik Kraus composed all the group's songs, pop songs and rock that were innovative for their time.
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Shmulik Kraus composed songs to Einstein, Arik Lavie, to Katz band and the "Good, the Bad and the Girl" group.