When was the last time you were in danger?
"More than 20 years ago. I was asked by Network C to describe the condition of the roads from a helicopter. When I arrived at the airport, I saw the helicopter and it looked too unsophisticated. Inside it was a novice pilot, another man next to him, and I and the broadcaster took off with them. We started the broadcast and the entire broadcast They played my songs. The announcer and I were talking about the roads, and suddenly the helicopter started to descend with the nose down quickly and suddenly, and what happens to me in situations like this is that I lock myself up, I don't shout. I became like a stone, the announcer screamed her life out, and I froze, red and frightened. It's hard to measure Some time after that, the helicopter leveled off, and I fell apart. I was physically weak, and later I realized what happened there. It was the pilot's first flight, and I think it has something to do with it."
When was the last time you were very scared?
"During the Corona period, I feared for my Shlomi's life, she got sick. I don't immediately jump to fears, I'm vocal at first, but then rumors started that he died and it was very scary. Even if I spoke to him a second ago - I saw publications that he was gone, and that scared me, so I kept Faith and security. I photographed people in the street congratulating him when he was very ill, I sent it to him, and it strengthened him. I was strong on the outside, and then I was at some kind of Friday meal and I started to cry - all the pressure and possession that had fallen, a dam opened there and washed away. I said to Shlomi: Listen, and listen to me well - don't you dare die before me,' and he said: 'I will talk to the Holy One, blessed be He.' '
He immediately felt the strong bond between us."
When was the last time you showed up?
"This week in Pardes Hana. I really like performing and singing, I love the audience, the joy it brings, the freedom, the release and the giving. At the beginning of the corona there were no performances, but when they started coming back I was really there, at the performances in the courtyards. I have a system Amplified for small performances and I went wherever I was invited to. Now I'm in a period of many performances and I'm just enjoying it."
When was the last time you thought about money?
"I have a lot of confidence when it comes to money, I'm not afraid of being left without or getting stuck, and I thank my father, who in my childhood I experienced as harsh and unpleasant. He told me: 'Hold your hand,' meaning that I won't waste it. He had no money, and when I asked, he almost He didn't, and that made me support myself independently and rely on myself.
"My father worked as a laborer in tin cans and got up every day at five. My mother worked in housekeeping and volunteered for the IDF.
I didn't feel like there wasn't any, but there was no money for meat or fruit, for example.
Our slice of cake was bread with margarine and sugar, and what can I say, voila, you're happy with that.
In the 11th grade I left school and worked in a bank. With my first salary I bought a guitar, with the second a stereo system. I have a great appreciation for money and a great confidence in myself and in life. I am not afraid of this and save from a young age. And for a beautiful day. I tell my friends: open savings plans and put something in there every month."
When was the last time you prayed?
"All the time. I pray all kinds of prayers, personal prayers and psalms, and I isolate myself from time to time, as much as possible. I get up in the morning and for a few minutes tell out loud what's going on with me. Or, for example, on Friday by the candles, it's terribly connecting. But I'm not religious. I like to study the Torah, but lately I've opened up a little more to myself, let go. I keep Shabbat, I like the separation and rest between Shabbat and Sunday. For four years I've kept Shabbat, but if I'm in need of something, I'm flexible and believe that God doesn't wants us to suffer."
I was a naughty girl who had no one to talk to;
When they were looking for me, they looked up to see if I was on a building or a tree.
I think that's why I still feel like a girl."
When was the last time you missed me?
"I miss my older brother very much, and as far as I'm concerned, he's passed away - not passed away, I don't accept it. He died seven years ago from a lung disease. He was 65 years old, and we were very close. He wasn't involved in music, but he had a sense of music and a sense of rhythm What has been happening to me lately, and it's getting stronger every day, is the love of life. You have to appreciate and be happy, put yourself in an awareness of joy and appreciation for every moment of gratitude. It comes from me and changes all kinds of treatments. Why waste time on anger? We all have a measure Anger, but how much? How much? I'm in favor of reducing, and it's possible. Let's enjoy what we have and let's work with it, let's be happy and give and make love, spread love."
When was the last time you had your heart broken?
"Two weeks ago, and thank God, I've been getting stronger since then and my face is forward. I'm looking for love, and this goes at the same time with a strong desire to connect and a strong desire to fly in music and grow. My heart is open now, and everything comes from all kinds of places. A broken heart is good for creativity, because There's nothing like a broken heart to write the songs of life, but writing happy songs is also a great thing.
"Happiness is self-evident and then you don't have to write about it, as if it wasn't exciting enough.
But I noticed that people respond to two types of music, happy or sad, and I like both very much."
In the 11th grade I left school and worked in a bank. With my first salary I bought a guitar, with the second a stereo system. I have a great appreciation for money and a great confidence in myself and in life
When was the last time you visited your childhood home in Yehud?
"There is no longer a house there, because my parents and older brother passed away, but I come to a place that I really like, because I have friends there. It was cool to grow up in nature, outside with football. It's an old neighborhood, with the whole neighborhood thing. Our toilets were outside , a pit in the ground outside the house, it was a different reality and the neighbors were very connected.
"I was a naughty girl who had no one to talk to; I grew up alone, they didn't ask me if I was sad or happy. When they looked for me, they looked up to see if I was on a building or a tree, and until now I feel like a child."
When was the last time you spent time with your daughter, Dana?
"All the time, and this month we were together in Budapest and it was a pleasure. Dana came with me to places that interest me, and I come with her for hours of measurements in clothing stores. She consults and measures, and I have a lot of patience. She is a great partner. She came to my life from Russia at the age of eight months. She is not I'm interested in her roots, but I bring it up because it's important to talk about these things. I was 46 years old when I brought her and I had a lot of strength. You don't know the strength you have inside of you until you get to the point itself. The people closest to me were very encouraging of the adoption, and also my parents.
"Raising a girl alone is not easy. I have not been in this place of motherhood at all, but when you are a mother things open up. Suddenly there are conversations with other mothers, classes and schools, and questions arise regarding how you want to raise her and what you want to give her, and you learn on the journey This. The difficulty is nothing compared to the joy. Dana is an only child, but in retrospect I would have liked several children. I found solace through her friends, who came to our house a lot, and now she has a stunning boyfriend whom I adore. They have been together for three and a half years, and let me just prepare They have food."
When was the last time you wrote a song?
"I've been writing a lot lately, I'm also recording several songs at the same time, and this week my new song is coming out, 'My Little Heart.' The audience. I can't write a song just to please. I know what goes and what people like. I have love, so thanks to it I write songs and pray that they reach people, and while writing I pass them on. I don't like songs that are written especially to be hits. There are hits that I love, including romantic and sweet music, but today there is music that is deliberately written in an exaggerated way."
When was the last time you were jealous of someone?
"Jealousy is a completely natural thing, I've never been afraid to say that I envy singers who appear on big stages. I haven't performed there yet and I admit that I want big stages, and I have to work for it. I'm jealous of my peace, because I also want to perform in big places. I I don't envy how others sing or write, I have my own. I want this big one for myself, and I'm not always in that place of connecting to that desire - but it's a real desire.
"You have to work on it to get there, and I wasn't always able, for all kinds of reasons, to put it in my head and go ahead. I got stopped because of all kinds of things, and today I'm really growing. Some can say 'I want Caesarea' or 'Hall of Culture' but can't hold onto this ambition. But I can, and I'm ready and worthy of it."
When was the last time you celebrated a birthday?
"Last July I turned 65 and they threw me a surprise party. Dana told me she was inviting friends to see 'Big Brother,' and at her request I stayed in the room, and when I left I found 22 of my friends in the living room. I thought I was dreaming. I didn't feel anything and no one said anything to me. I didn't I feel 65 years old at all, I do feel my growth. Inside my essence is very young. I feel that I am at the beginning of things. I am not saying that I know, I have learned and understood - for me everything is new from the beginning. I feel the age physically, time flies and I have Thoughts about age and the deplorable state of old age, of a nursing home, it is somewhere in my thoughts. I should have started living at age 80 and gone down until I disappeared."
When did you first write a song?
"I started by composing, the melody came first and the words came at a later stage. I remember a melody I made up in elementary school, maybe in the 6th or 7th grade, and it was a song with one word, 'night'. My significant breakthrough was with 'Don't remember what winter' . It was my first song that came out on the radio, when I was 29 years old, and it was very different from what I played and composed. There was a change in this song from where I was in my writing, there were many very complex things in it."
Leah Shabat: 65 years old, singer, songwriter and composer. Lives in Hod Hasharon. Mother of Dana (19 and a half years old) and sister of Shlomi Shabbat. She started her career as a backing singer for Mati Caspi. She composed or wrote the hits "Because of the Spirit", "They will always wait for you", "A piece of heaven", "You're going to sleep early", and wrote for Gali Atari, Shlomi Shabbat, Mati Caspi, Norit Galron, Rita and many others. Shabbat released eight albums, including compilation albums. This week she released a new song ("My little heart"). She will perform on August 30 at the Yehud Amphitheatre, on September 1 in Lahabim and on September 7 at the Suzan Dellal Center in Tel Aviv
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