Kabra Kasai

Kabra Kasai was born in 1982 in Sudan

Kasai was born on August 3, 1982, in a refugee camp in Sudan to Ethiopian Jewish parents on their way to Israel in Operation Moses. The family reached Israel in 1983 and first lived in Ma'alot. Two years later they moved to Kiryat Malakhi, where she grew up.

At 13 she joined the Kiryat Malakhi youth performing troupe and stayed until she was drafted. In the IDF she sang in the Education Corps military band. There she met Idan Raichel, who worked as a music producer for a soldiers' band.

She took part in the first season of Kochav Nolad and was the first contestant voted off. She sang on the Idan Raichel Project's second album, Mima'amakim, and her song Milim Yafot Me'Ele reached number 1 on the weekly Reshet Gimel chart. The project was named band of the year on Reshet Gimel and Galgalatz.

In January 2006 she visited Ethiopia for the first time with the project. The 2007 documentary Black on White followed her roots journey, and she recorded the song Habayta, Haloch Chazor, released as a single in September 2007. She married French Jewish businessman Michael Maimoni in 2012 and lives in Paris.