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Ofra Haza

Ofra Haza was an Israeli singer, songwriter, and actress celebrated for her unique voice and cultural impact.

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Ofra Haza is best known for Israeli singer and actress known as 'the Madonna of the East' with a tender mezzo-soprano voice. On Dead or Alive, Ofra Haza is listed in the Eurovision category, where you can test yourself on similar names. Dead or Alive is a trivia game: you decide whether a famous person is still alive, then see the answer. The status for Ofra Haza is checked against public sources such as Wikidata and is shown only after you answer.

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Known for: Israeli singer and actress known as 'the Madonna of the East' with a tender mezzo-soprano voice
Listed under: Eurovision

About Ofra Haza

In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked her at number 186 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time. Of Yemenite-Mizrahi descent, Haza performed music known as a mixture of traditional Middle Eastern and commercial singing styles, fusing elements of Eastern and Western instrumentation, orchestration and dance-beat, as well as lyrics from Mizrahi and Jewish folk tales and poetry. During her singing career, she earned many platinum and gold discs and her music proved highly popular in the club scene. By the 1990s, at the peak of her career, she was regularly featured in movie soundtracks, such as that of Dick Tracy (1990) and famously in The Prince of Egypt (1998), and her vocals were popularly sampled in hip-hop.

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Ofra Haza is known for Israeli singer and actress known as 'the Madonna of the East' with a tender mezzo-soprano voice.

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