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Gila Adari

voc, 1947-2013
Singer of Pop and Rock
A.k.a. Gila Laufer née Gila Adri

Gila Adari (born 1947 in Morocco, died 22 July 2013 in Haifa, Israel) was an Israeli pop singer who was popular in the mid 1960s. Her family migrated to Israel when she was two years old, settling in Acre. In 1964, at the age of 17, she participated in an amateur singing contest and was noticed by Effi Netzer. Netzer recommended her to Dov Zeira who was looking for a new artist to sing western style pop. She was signed by Hataklit and her last name was changed to Adari. Adari recorded her first EP which included the song "First Kiss", which topped the Israeli charts in 1965. It was followed by an album of the same name. Adari is mainly known for recording Hebrew versions of British, French and American pop songs. She married football star Ephraim Laufer in 1968 and, with the birth of their first child in 1969, decided to leave the music business and concentrate on her family, though she did return to the stage occasionally after her album was reissued in the 1990s and 2000s. A two disc collection including both the "First Kiss" album and her EPs was released on CD and in digital formats in 2013.

Genres

• Pop
• Rock

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