Lea ShabatSongs, albums, age and where shows are announced

Lea Shabat was born in 1957 and grew up in Yehud. She began as a backing singer on a 1987 album by Matti Caspi and on his tour, and in April 1989 released her first single, Lo Zocheret Eize Horef, which she wrote and composed and Arkadi Duchin produced. Its success brought her a recording contract with NMC, and late that year Biglal HaRuach, which she composed for Shlomi Shabat to words by Micha Shitrit, became a big hit, later recorded by many other singers.

Most of the songs on her debut album, Hom She'ata Mechapes (1990), are her own, and Tzel HaLev Takin (1997), which she wrote, composed and arranged in full, brought Tamid Yechaku Lach and Hatichat Shamayim. Between her albums she wrote or composed songs for others: HaShir SheYavi Lecha Ahava for Gali Atari, Al Telech Achshav for Rita, and the title song and Ata Holech Lishon Mukdam on Nurit Galron's Lehitraot Matok.

Her later albums include Hamaniyot Mul HaShemesh (2002), whose title song was also the theme of the film Pgisha Iveret, and Ligdol Letzidech (2015), sung half in Hebrew and half in Ladino. In 2019 she set out on a tour marking 30 years of writing, and in November 2025 she received the ACUM Ehud Manor prize for lifetime achievement. A concert at Heichal HaTarbut in Tel Aviv on 17 February 2026 was set to mark 40 years of her career.