Sunday, June 8, 2014

Dana International: Gay Pride Song for Tel Aviv


After Mei Feingold released a song for the gay pride anthem for Israel (see our blogg here) another big ESC Star from the country in the Middle East now announced that she will release a new song for the Gay Pride in Tel Aviv which will take place on 13th of June. After 6 years of abstinence Dana will appear as the main performer at the gay pride. The song which she will perform live on stage is called 'Yeladim Ze Sichma' (Children are Joy). This song's important message ischildren are joy, no matter the race, colour, gender or sexual orientation everyone has the right to bring up children and start a family.

Here you can see this song. A special is, that the video was shot in a sinagoge in Israel.


Dana International appeared in 1995 on the ESC stage in the national selection. She came second that year but came first and therefore were the representative for Israel 1998. Besides a big protest of religious groups in Israel because her transsexuality, with her song 'Diva' she soon turned to be the favorit of that year to win the ESC. At the end she took home the victory 6 points ahead of the hosting country United Kingdom and with that Israel won the Eurovision for the third time ('A-bi-ni-bi' 1978 and 'Hallelujah' 1979).



13 years later in 2011 in Dusseldorf she were again with the her song 'Ding Dong' the representative for Israel. This time she had not as much success as in 1998 and came 15th in the 2nd semifinal. But besides that with her attitude and her fight for equality for the LGBT-group she is especially famous. 


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