An article Originally posted in the Jewish Journal Life Style section by Ayala Or-elץ
An incredible thing happened to 72-year-old singer Hedva Amrani this past summer. Her new single, “Just Be,” became a hit in Israel — 45 years after she left the promised land for the promising land of Beverly Hills.
Amrani is no stranger to the big time. She recorded numerous albums as part of the duo “Hedva and David” — winning the first Yamaha Song Festival in Tokyo with the song “I Dream of Naomi” and selling more than a million copies of it in Japanese — and she had a number of hits as a solo artist, including “Salam Aleikum” (In One Heart) and “Shneinu Yachdav” (The Two of Us). Yet those were some 40 years ago — before she left Israel in the early 1970s and gave up her status as one of the nation’s leading singers.
Sitting in her Beverly Hills home, which she shares with her husband, urologist Dudley Danoff, Amrani sounded excited as she talked about her new song that marked her return to the spotlight.
“What happened is pretty incredible,” a youthful-looking Amrani said. “The song keeps playing on all the radio stations. … This is quite a miracle, as singers who are very well known in Israel and are working all the time struggle to be played on the radio. I’m thrilled.”
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