Galit Burg

Galit Burg was born in 1968 in Bat Yam

Galit Burg was born on June 8, 1968, and grew up in Bat Yam, the eldest of 6 children. Her father was a guitarist and her mother a singer, and her father was a cousin of the singer Mike Brant. Her family was secular, but after her mother became religious she was sent to a boarding school in Kfar Chabad.

She later left religious life and moved to an ORT high school. She loved singing from a young age and took part in singing contests.

In 1989 she was paired with the child singer Gili Netanel to perform Shaike Paikov's song "Derech Hamelech". The duo won the Israeli preselection and placed 12th of 22 at Eurovision in Lausanne, then broke up soon after. In 1991 she formed the band Tremp, released a rock album in 1994, and in 1997 released an English dance song in Europe under the stage name Galecia.

She married the band's guitarist and lived on and off in the United States, and in 2005 released the album "Noga'at Bach". She became religious and performed for women, later left religion and then returned to it. She was killed in a road accident on Route 4314 on November 28, 2022, and was buried in Yarkon Cemetery.