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Sings in Farsi, but lives in Tel Aviv: Liraz Charhi
Photo: SHAI FRANCO / Shai Franco
Six men and women circle Liraz Charhi, paint the singer's delicate, barely veiled body, her neck, face, and arms with green, red, and yellow paint.
Then the spotlight goes out and her voice falls silent.
Darkness and silence follow light and noise.
It is the finale of »Frida«, an erotic dance theater about the tragic life of the Mexican painter of the century Frida Kahlo de Rivera.
The audience in the fully occupied hall of the Israeli national theater »Habima« applauds.
Frenetic.
Liraz Charhi is beaming.
The artist did it: In the first few years of her career, she was best known as a soap star and singer of Hebrew pop music.
On this evening in February 2019, the Tel Aviv bourgeoisie celebrated her as »Frida«.
The mother tongue of the parents is the language of the enemy
There is another Liraz Charhi.
She dances in a cream-colored fantasy nikab adorned with rhinestones in the bazaar of Istanbul in the glaring light of the sun.
She sings, accompanied by oriental sounds, Ellie Goulding's "Love Me Like You Do", the title track of the box office hit "Fifty Shades of Gray" - in Farsi.
In their parents' mother tongue.
In the language of the enemy.
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