Then suddenly the family took to the stage: Nasrin Kadri made the audience cry

Nasrin Kadri's performance at the Tel Aviv Sports Hall was total and impressive and presented her as a pop star, even if this time she was unbalanced in terms of highs and strengths. When she brought Motti's son Shabbat on stage, we all sobbed

Then suddenly the family took to the stage: Nasrin Kadri made the audience cry

Away from the promises made in Washington on the disputed land we live in, the sports hall in central Tel Aviv could have been much more fun on Tuesday with thoughts of coexistence. When Nasrin Qadri performed in front of thousands of songs in Hebrew and Arabic (and in Moroccan), she presented much more exciting hope for what could be here.

Kadri came up in the background with a video that called for not putting her in drawers and clichés, but nonetheless emphasized an agenda - of empowerment and feminine power, an effective message from a powerful singer to an audience composed mostly of young women. Accordingly, the stated inspiration of the evening, expressed in several strata (from "learning to walk" to general style), was Beyoncé's. If anyone was in doubt, a tribute to "Crazy in Love" was there to make it clear.

Don't turn me around

A great deal of inspiration was created. Nasrin Kadri at the Sports Hall (Photo: Eclipse Media)

Nasrin Qadri on the show (Photo: Eclipse Media, PR)

I once saw Nasrin give a short set of songs in Tel Aviv. She was then after a first album and a win in a reality show, but very far from where she is today, both musically and certainly in terms of status and popularity. When she then opened a throat in one of the songs, she simply lit the place, in what seemed almost effortless. Since then, it has grown and grown, but the basic method has not changed: Nasrin's nucleus in a live performance is a nucleus of totality.

Last night, too, she staged a total performance with very high energy, with dancers, pyrotechnics, an elevated stage, a huge band on stage, and most of all a voice that didn't flinch at too much intensity. Alongside the impressive show, it didn't work in its favor all the time: most of the celebration was not completely balanced in terms of highs and strengths, it had too few really exciting moments or tricks, along with not entirely accurate moments. The loyal audience didn't make much difference: the strong hit sequence that opened the show - "Wearing a Smile," "Benedick," and "Tell Him" ​​- was greeted with excitement with dancing in the stands and tunes that sang every word.

Pop star. Nasrin Kadri at the Sports Hall (Photo: Eclipse Media)

Nasrin Qadri on the show (Photo: Eclipse Media, PR)

The climax of the show was precisely when Kadri sang a song that was not part of her original repertoire. After one of the happy strings, Kedri changed direction, inviting the family of Moti Ben Shabbat, a Nahariya resident who died in the flood when he tried to help and save lives. She shared how excited she was about the story and the interview with his parents, and when his mother was on stage, she sang to them "Simon Buskila's" Minar Lee Mishti "and the Idan Raichel project. It was from those moments when there was really no dry eye left in the courtroom. With the passage of "Albie Maek," perhaps her best song, Kadri finished the first part of the show in a slightly diffused and not completely coherent video collage, which hinted at the variety of challenges she faced.

The other half of the show was a little weaker than the first. Needless to say: Kadri made the Hall for the first time in her career with no one guest and everything on her shoulders - a challenge piece when it comes to a two-hour show and included almost 20 different numbers. At least one virtual guest actually was: Kadri sang to the character of Om Kulthum, who was added to her screens, "Intha Omri". She is not the first Israeli to perform the classic song (it was one of her best performances throughout the evening), and yet it was something special. In the transition between Kadri's Hebrew and Arabic, and not least that of the audience who knows and knows, a great deal of inspiration has been created. Popish casualness, so-called agenda-free, neutralizes the dramatic relationship between sister languages ​​for the thing that should be the simplest and most obvious in this place - a shared multicultural space. This is significant for Israeli culture in more than one context.

And there were more dances, and even projections, and the show went on until the end of the show and the big hit, "Learning to Walk," to which all parties came with final strength. Kadri is unique in many ways: the big voice, the complex identity, the persona in general. In the Hall, last night, in the most successful phase of her career to date, she was born on stage as a pop star.