Victoria Hanna (

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: ויקטוריה חנה; a stage name consisting of her first and middle names) is an Israeli multi-disciplinary artist, singer and musician."A different way to sing the alphabet,"
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Biography

Victoria Hanna was brought up in an

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Mizrahi Jewish family in

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by an Egyptian rabbi father and a Persian mother."The 'edgiest' singer on Israeli airwaves is an Orthodox mother of three,"

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."Struggles pay off for Victoria Hanna,"
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''.Atay Citron, Sharon Aronson-Lehavi, David Zerbib (2014)
''Performance Studies in Motion: International Perspectives and Practices in the Twenty-First Century,''

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. She stuttered as a child. She was born in and lives in Jerusalem, and has three children. She studied acting in

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's acting studio.

Music career

Hanna composes all of her songs. She released her first video single, a song called "Aleph Bet", the name of the

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, in February 2015. It went viral on YouTube, with over million hits. Hanna's second video single, which she came out with later in 2015, is "22 Letters."">"Victoria Hanna's New Video Will Make You Fall In Love With Hebrew,"
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rap, and is based on ''

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'' "Book of Formation" or "Book of Creation". ''

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'' listed her as one of Israel's 50 most influential women in 2015. She promoted her debut album in 2017. Hanna sang in the Opening Ceremonies of the

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. In 2021, Hanna took part in a musical piece specially commissioned for the Oud Festival in Jerusalem. Titled ''The

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'', the work is a musical interpretation of a contemporary poem by Haviva Pedaya, Ruchama Carmel, and Pika Magrik. Hanna performed alongside

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musician Amir Shahasar.

References

Relevant literature

* Busau, Filip. 2016. Victoria Hannas Kunst: Zwischen Gebet, Popkultur und Interpretation. Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Judaistik.

External links

Official websiteVictoria Hanna
on Facebook
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Biography

Music career

See also

References

Relevant literature

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