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"Genius people don't have much room for others around them": C. Hyman sings with her late father Israel today

2023-01-08T06:36:35.348Z


In a container that was forbidden to be opened until the last few years, the singer discovered a CD left behind by Nahum (Nachcha) Heyman, the esteemed composer, with a tune written on it 'Looking for words' • Now that she feels ready for it, she releases "Hey Abba", a song she wrote to the tune he left behind, and tells "Israel Hayom" about the complex and charged process she went through until its release • "I don't choose to be the underprivileged and accusing girl"


How was a song born?

Sometimes in a mysterious and cosmic way, which seems that the intention from above is responsible for its creation.

That's exactly how "Hey Dad" was born, a song written by C. Heyman to the tune of her father, Nachcha, who died in 2016, which she miraculously discovered: under his abandoned piles, rotting from the rains, in a container that was forbidden to be opened by a court order until the end of 2019.

She opened the sealed plastic bag, which was wrapped in rubber bands, with holy fear.

Inside it was a CD on which was written in his handwriting "Tefila", a sketch for the piano alone that he played.

In fact, this is the last lost tune found at his departure.

When she was exposed to the melody, she succeeded in a complex digital procedure to save the recording and sat down to write words for it, a kind of personal letter of the things she didn't have time to say to him.

In the filming of the music video in which she sings and her father accompanies her, which will also be accompanied by rare archive clips of Nachcha, it seems that more than ever Heiman came to reconciliation and the great reconciliation with the great shadow that accompanied her all her life: growing up in the midst of one of the greatest composers who ever lived.

grow up alongside a genius.

C. Heyman, photo: Ilan Bashor

"Father left behind several wills, because he had dementia at the end of his life," C shares excitedly.

Some of them were of course for Rose Abramson Hyman, his wife.

In order to touch father's materials - CDs, books, notebooks, writings - we needed a court-approved order, which we did not have, because there was an order prohibiting the opening of the inheritance, which was locked in a container in Kibbutz Givat Hasholsha.

It took us from the day of his death until the end of 2019 to receive back his spiritual inheritance, the music, and that's where the permission to open the container came from.

"I wasn't able to do anything with it at first."

Hayman in the container, photo: Nami Karmi

"It stood for 3 years at the edge of the kibbutz, in the rain. We opened it, sat there, and in a Sisyphean fashion we put things in plastic bags, sorted what was taken and what was thrown away, because there were a lot of things that had rotted. Then we found a bag under the garbage, wrapped in rubber bands, and to my astonishment it had written on it ' Nachcha sketch for piano, looking for words, prayer'. I took it home. I listened to the melody, I was amazed and I couldn't do anything with it. Because it was him playing.

"Usually he let someone else play. But this time he played, and wrote 'to find words'. There is no date, we have no idea when it is from. It reminded me of tunes he wrote in the 70s," she says of the amazing and shocking discovery.

When did you realize you had to do something about it?


"After I heard the tune, the corona virus broke out. I went on a very deep journey with myself and returned to playing after a long time. I took lessons and started recording my tenth album, which I finished while playing the piano. In it I dedicated the song 'It's so simple' to him, which I started writing at the bedside his death.

Hey Dad - C. Heyman

"At one of the Corona shows I did in the yard, I played 'Beaches' and 'A Song for You' and I realized that I was opening an arena and corresponding with my father. So I realized that now is my time to be able to play my father and be present, paradoxically, after his death.

"In 2022, I approached Django, with whom I worked on the album and played him the tune. He told me 'this is crazy, we have to save it digitally'. And he saved it. I wrote the lyrics, and tomorrow the single will premiere on all platforms. Guess what It had to happen for us to find it. I got all the way under the piles of garbage until I sang it."

And how does it feel to sing with dad?


"On the day of the recording in the studio, I was in a completely different place, and they told me there that I sang differently from how I usually sing. As if I was going with each of his notes with grace. I actually went right into my memories as a girl sitting on his lap, in the gilboa, in the hut, where his piano was, and I sang it From where he hugs me.

"I felt like I was telling him 'rest in peace'."

C. Heyman, photography: Ruthi Adi

"I feel that this moment I sang was a huge fulfillment of love. I don't choose to be the underprivileged and blaming girl, I never was. I always knew that I was born to a genius, and genius people don't have much room for others around them. I felt that this song is the reconciliation, the connection and the hug with which I say to him 'Rest in peace'. I hope this comforts him. I feel that we will be doing a favor from my side."

Tomorrow (Monday) will be the premiere of the single on all platforms.

On January 25, C. Hayman and her band members, Elad Shodler and Django, will host Tomer and Yaheli Banya, and Daniel Salomon and Nathan Salor in a festive show in Tamune.

The creators of the "Hey Dad" music video: Eran Wolfson and Daniela Chai.


The music video was filmed in "Tamune".




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Source: israelhayom

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