Biography
Dana International is one of the most famous singers-transsexuals. The world glory overnight collapsed on the ramp after she took part in the Eurovision-1998 International Valley Competition. The news that the bright winner is not quite a woman, diverged the world and caused public resonance.Childhood and youth
The inborn Yaron Cohen was born on the outskirts of the capital of Israel, in Tel Aviv. His parents were poor people from Yemen - states in South-West Asia. Mother led a household, and his father worked as an assistant judge.
The media argue that the young man received his name in honor of the uncle, who died in terrorist actions. Yaron is a younger child in the family, he has a sister Lamor and Brother Nerod. From an early age, Cohen preferent with communicating with girls and games with dolls. Thus, even then, the boy was manifested by transsexual inclinations.
C 8-year-old Yaron began to get involved in music. After 2 years later, he entered the service in the municipal choir, and already at the age of 14 for the first time he became a member of the present musical called "Joseph and amazing living bedspread". After graduation at the elementary school, the guy entered Ironi Alef. There he began friendship with 2 brothers - Liors and Shmulik, who later began to participate in the dance numbers of Dana International.
In primary grades, Yuron had good performance at school, but sexual ripening and arising in this connection internal contradictions of steel for the young man by cornerstone. His marks began to decline, and the status in local clubs is to rise. Cohen began to give performances from 16 years in night facilities, trying on bright female images using catchy outfits and wigs. Parents with understanding reacted to such the inclination of their child and supported it in every possible way.
Music
In 1988, in one of the nightclubs, the guy met Wrior Nissima - the organizer of the Li La Lo team (translated into Russian "to me, to him"), who was actively looking for vocalist. Thus, Yuron appeared a pseudonym given, under which he performed a parody of the popular song of Singer Whitney Houston My Name Is Not Susan. The own song of the young man called Dana International almost immediately made his way into the music charts of America and became a hit not only in Israel.Together with the release of the song Dana International Cohen, not only fame, but also financial prospects, so that in 1993 could afford to go to the UK to go through surgical intervention in order to change the floor with men's female. His relatives, parents and sister Limor, with which the young man was in childhood in childhood, shared his experiences, with ease and understanding adopted this news.
After the operation, which was successful, Yaron officially changed his name to Women's Sharon, and Dana International chose as a stage pseudonym. Along with the completion of the rehabilitation period, a presentation of the debut of the same name album took place, which received the status of gold.
In one of the numerous interviews, Sharon Cohen shared his look at the physical changes that happened to her. She believes that listeners should not pay much attention to the fact of sex change and actively wondering how she looked before the operation. According to the woman, this is the same minor item in its biography, such as the change in hairstyles or hair color, plastic nose or chest surgery:
"The audience should see in me primarily the singer and only then the beauty, characteristics of the character and the events they live."Dana is an active participant of gay parades.
In 1994, the second record of the performer called Umpatampa became platinum. At the same time, she received the honorary title "Performed of the Year" at home in Israel. Pirate copies of the compositions were found popularity and abroad, in particular in Egypt. Sharon Cohen began to cooperate with various performers, for example, recorded a joint track with the Ukrainian pop group "Neangels" called I Need You Love.
Next year, a successful singer wanted to experience his forces on the international song contest "Eurovision", but the participation in Israeli preliminary selection brought the girl only 2nd place. Dana did not harm the spirit and released the new E.Tempa album, which joined the musical styles such as disco, trance and house.
At the end of the autumn of 1997, Dana International was offered to speak by the representative of Israel to Eurovision-1998 with the song Diva, the author of which is the poet and composer Zwick Peak. In May of the next year, the singer was awarded the 1st place at the competition, earning 174 points. The victory brought Dana's status of a full-fledged international superstar, she became one of the main heroines of news on such prestigious television channels, like MTV, CNN, Sky News, BBC and many others.
Single Diva, who came out shortly after the end of the competition, lightningly fell on the top lines of European charts, and the plate was sold out with a circulation of more than 400 thousand copies around the world. The Russian pop artist Philip Kirkorov even recorded a pen and removed the clip to the Diva composition. Despite this, a promising celebrity never signed a contract with Sony because of the differences that have arisen.
Dana International, who had ambitious plans for the future, performed and recorded a cover for the song Barbra Streisand Woman in Love, but the composition did not achieve such success as Diva. Then followed by the release of the album FREE, which failed in Europe. Then, immediately after returning to Israel, the performer began to work on new projects. At this time, the presentation of the Israeli and Japanese versions of the new record took place.
In 2005, the discussion "Eurovision" in Kiev, Diva's composition entered the list of 14 best songs for the entire existence of a musical competition, but was not able to get into the top five with their 39 points, taking the 13th line.
In 2007, Dana International released the Hakol Ze Letova album ("All for the Best"). Single Love Boy has become one of the most popular hits on the radio over the past decade. This period was marked for the singer regular tours in America's cities. A year later, she returned to Eurovision again, only this time as the author of the song - she composed the composition for the young and promising artist Baaz Mud, he managed to take the 9th place.
In January 2014, the premiere of his own TV show was given under the name Yeshnan Banot, the broadcast of which took place on the Music channel of Israel "24". In the same year, the talented performer released 4 singles: Yeladim Ze Simcha, Down On Me, Emunot Ktanot and Saida Sultana.
Personal life
Sharon Cohen prefers not to extend about the details of his personal life. It is known that, being a teenager, she first fell in love with the young man named Daniel, with whom the future singer studied in the same school. To this day, a woman considers those feelings with the most strong in their lives.
After studying, Israeli schoolchildren loved spending time by the sea and talk a lot. Dana, which was still called Yaron at that time, promised to her beloved that one day they both would wake up famous. However, Daniel never lived before this moment because of the tragedy - his car was shot down.
Pseudonym Dana Cohen took to honor the memory of his first love. According to the singer, Daniel remained not only in her name, but also in his heart and voice. She also claims that it is acquaintance with a guy helped her finally realize himself a woman. Fortunately, physical data corresponded to this - the growth is given 176 cm, the weight is about 60 kg. It looks great both in a swimsuit, and in scenic costumes, the figure of the singers can envy many female representatives.
Dana International now
Now the woman continues his vocal career. It actively performs its own compositions in different languages - English, Russian, Italian, Spanish, French, Arabic and, of course, in her native Hebrew.In 2019, Dana continues to cooperate with the Eurovision Music International Competition. On May 14, she spoke at the qualifying stage in Israel with the song Just The Way You Are.
Discography
- 1993 - Dana International
- 1994 - Umpatampa.
- 1995 - E.P.Tempa.
- 1996 - Maganuna.
- 1998 - Diva.
- 1999 - Free.
- 2001 - Yoter Ve Yoter
- 2007 - Hakol Ze Letova
- 2019 - TBA.