Nizza Thobi

Nizza Thobi (July 15, 1947 in Jerusalem, Palestine) is an Israeli-born singer and musician who has lives since over 30 years in Germany.

Biography

Thobi was born in Jerusalem near the Mount of Olives as the daughter of Sephardic Jews. As a child she came in contact with the German-Jewish history, when she noticed the tattooed numbers from the imprisonment in [...] concentration camps on the arms of some parents of her classmates. She became increasingly interested in Germany and the history of the Holocaust and for the Berlin of the 1960s, which was divided as their native city of Jerusalem. In the 1960s, she studied classical guitar in Jerusalem and then toured with the Israeli folk group "Saber Show" througtout the whole world. Then she stood in front of the Frankfurt-MusicAL Hair and had the solo role of "Frank Mills". 1972 she also started her solo career (including in the Munich theater scene, "Song Parnassus" and in the Schwabing "Shalom Club"), which they still continue. From January 2006 she hosts the Jewish culture radio show LORA 92.4. Thobi lives with her husband in Munich.

Music and Lyrics

Nizza Thobi pulls the thread from Vilna to Jerusalem. There are songs with political imperatives. The individual tracks are mostly songs from the ghettos such as Vilna and from Warsaw. The stories put the individual behind the music tracks are particularly important and it has been researched by the musician in often complex work. But even songs from the Eastern European Jewry and modern Israel will find space on their publication, songs in Yiddish, Hebrew, Aramaic, Ladino, Greek and German.

Discography

• 1982: Mir lebn ejbig (LP, 2006, also as a CD, David Records)
• 2000: Gebojrn in a sajdn hemdl (album, David Records)
• 2006: Yiddish is gor nisht azoy schwer (album, David Records)
• 2009: Ein Koffer spricht (album, David Records)

Miscellaneous

Won 1976 Tony Marshall, with the song The Star of the Eurovision Song Contest. The song was short but it disqualified because the singer Nice Thobi had previously sung in public.

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