Shiri Maimon

Shiri Maimon was born in 1981 in Kiryat Chaim

Shiri Maimon was born on May 17, 1981, and grew up in Kiryat Haim. Her parents are Mazal and Natan Maimon, and she is the third of 4 children. She first performed in 1991 at the Festigal and later sang in the children's band Tehila.

During her IDF service she sang in the Israeli Air Force Band. Afterward she worked for a year and a half as a singer and bartender at a club in Eilat. She enrolled at Beit Zvi but left when she was accepted to Kokhav Nolad.

In 2003 she finished second in the first season of Kokhav Nolad. She then hosted the youth TV program EXIT until October 2005. In 2005 she won the Israeli selection with "HaSheket SheNish'ar" and placed fourth at Eurovision in Kyiv with 154 points.

Her debut album Shiri Maimon came out in September 2005 and went gold. In 2008 she won Best Israeli Act at the MTV Europe Music Awards. From 2010 she toured a joint show with Shimon Buskila, and from 2013 she was a judge on The X Factor Israel.

In 2018 she played Roxie Hart in the Broadway show Chicago. In February 2024 she recorded a live album with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.