Shlomit Aharon

Shlomit Aharon was born in 1950 in Tel Aviv

Shlomit Aharon was born Shlomit Debinik in Tel Aviv on 10 July 1950, to parents from Poland. Her father, Aharon, was a Holocaust survivor, and her mother, Naomi, had been a singer and actress in Yiddish theater in Łódź. After her father died, she took his first name as her last name.

She studied at the Rananim School of Arts in Tel Aviv. With classmate Yigal Bashan she formed the duo Yigal and Shlomit, which had a radio hit called The Golden Age.

In the army she sang lead vocals in the Central Command Band. After her release she appeared in stage shows and, in 1971, on a film soundtrack.

In 1975 she joined a vocal trio to form Hakol Over Habibi, which recorded 13 albums. The band represented Israel at the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest with Halayla, whose lyrics she co-wrote, and placed 7th. She voiced Ariel in the Hebrew dub of The Little Mermaid.

She left the band in 1989 and released her first solo album, Ishi Ve'Ahuvi. Later albums followed in 1992, 2000, 2006 and 2015. In 2021 she received the AMI Lifetime Achievement Award.