"Suddenly a phone call: 'Hey, it's Shlomo Artzi.' I hung up on him.

How the song Mono was born, why Shlomo Artzi hung up the phone in her face - and how Aviv Geffen changed her life in Corona: The popular musician was a guest on "Hit the Expert" and tried to answer some serious glitches about her and her career.

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02/06/2022

Thursday, 02 June 2022, 13:17

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In the video: Dikla in "Hit the Expert" (Editing: Dina Mahfutz)

The singer, who has been waiting 20 years for the professional breakthrough that will change her life, arrived at the Walla!

To play with us "beat the expert".

In other words, we encountered Dikla with difficult questions about her busy career - and tested how many of them she would be able to answer correctly.

"I understand that they can be overthrown," Dikla says, referring to the exclusion of women from the playlist, the charts and the radio stations.

"They get tired along the way of men who run it with a very selfish hand."

According to her, singers and musicians are usually forced to go a longer and more complicated way to create and survive within an artistic arena that is still dominated by men.

Later, Dikla, who started as a songwriter for Dudu Aharon, Sarit Hadad and many others - recounts how she sought inspiration for words on the streets and benches of Tel Aviv, where she slept, spent and lived nights without a roof over her head.

However, during the game it turns out that one of the biggest hits she wrote for singer Shlomi Saranga, started from Friday's sponge.

"We walk on Ben Gurion Boulevard and I just sing 'Mono Mono' to myself," she recalls.

"He said to me, 'What is this?'

I told him, 'Just some gibberish I invented and I'm cleaning the house with it.'

He says to me 'What, are you serious ?!

that's mine!".

"Just gibberish that I clean the house with."

Dikla (Photo: Daniel Elster)

Later, Dikla recounted the connection with Shlomo Artzi, when she sang with him the duet he wrote and composed "Mekhal Nefshi", which unfortunately began on the left foot.

"Saturday night they call me from a confidential number and say to me, 'Hey, this is Shlomo Artzi, can I talk to Dikla?' I'm not kidding, it's really complete. "

After being convinced that this was not a phone prank, she talked to him at length and was fascinated by him: "We had an interesting conversation about my parents, where I come from, what I feel, we got straight to deep districts."

Dikla also told about the corona crisis and how Aviv Geffen managed to cure it from the depression of the period of closure and social disconnection.

"I was depressed and moved between black and white. I had thoughts about continuing my professional path and one night I see a concert by Aviv Geffen in a different amphitheater. I heard the lyrics and melodies and came back to myself, I became new. When I saw Aviv - I saw Israeli art won. "Something important to say, he has something to say and he leaves something here."

Dikla also recounted her fainting during the recordings for the album Arlozorov: "I sang the song 'Cry'. I told myself I had to perform it in one 'take', once and that's it. Because of the stress and pain of this song - I just fainted."

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