Yehudit Ravitz

Yehudit Ravitz was born in 1956 in Beersheba

Yehudit Ravitz was born in Beersheba on December 29, 1956, and grew up there. Her older brother is the musician Yaakov Ravitz. She played, wrote and composed songs as a teenager.

She studied at a high school in Beersheba and left before finishing in order to join a military troupe. She served in the entertainment troupe of the Combat Engineering Corps. During her service she joined the rock group Sheshet.

In 1977 she sang Slichot, a poem by Leah Goldberg, at the Israel Song Festival, and the song topped the annual chart. She then left Sheshet for a solo career and took part in Eretz Tropit Yafa. In 1978 she recorded The Sixteenth Sheep with Gidi Gov, Yoni Rechter and David Broza.

She released the album Ba'a MeAhava in 1987 and produced Corinne Allal's album Antarctica in 1989. Later albums include Eizo Min Yalda in 1997 and Shirim MeHaBayit in 2010.

In 2009 she disclosed her relationship with Naomi Kanyuk, and the two separated in 2016. She lives in Tel Aviv with her adopted daughter Ella. In 2022 she received the ACUM Lifetime Achievement Award.