Shuli Natan

Shuli Natan was born in 1947 in London

Natan was born in London in 1947 as Miriam Shulamit Bauernfreund, to the painters Eve Nathan and Joshua Bauernfreund. Her family moved to Israel when she was very young. She lived in Wilhelma and later in Ramat Hen in Ramat Gan, and finished Blich High School.

She joined the IDF in 1965 and served as a soldier teacher in the Lachish area, while also learning guitar. She later studied music theory at the Rubin Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem. When she began her career she took her mother's maiden name, Natan, and shortened her first name to Shuli.

Her first public appearance was on a radio program in 1967, where Naomi Shemer's daughter heard her. Shemer chose her to sing "Jerusalem of Gold" at the 1967 Song Festival, and she performed it with only a guitar. The song became linked with the Six-Day War.

She recorded Israeli songs, Jewish traditional songs and works by Shlomo Carlebach, and set poems by Zelda to music. She worked and recorded with Nechama Hendel from 1968. She left the stage to raise her 5 children and returned in 1990.

In 2007 she acted in a student film, and in 2010 she began working with the group Bnot Mesilot. She lives with her partner Ivy Levy at Kibbutz Beit HaShita.