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"Chador Drips Rainwater" recounts episodes from the singer's personal-family history, filled with honest depictions of childhood pain, the trauma of immigration - and the first revelations of the music. This introspection turns out to be an effective creative engine, and provides a fascinating glimpse into the person behind the eternal hits


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In memory of the days of innocence: Rita returned to her childhood in Tehran in a wonderful and fluid book

"Chador Drips Rainwater" recounts episodes from the singer's personal-family history, filled with honest depictions of childhood pain, the trauma of immigration - and the first revelations of the music.

This introspection turns out to be an effective creative engine, and provides a fascinating glimpse into the person behind the eternal hits

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Nadav Menuhin

Sunday, 14 March 2021, 07:30 Updated: 07:35

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In the video: Rita reads from her bookstore (Photo: Modan Publishing)

While reading Rita's illuminated, "Chador Drips Rainwater" (Modan Publishing) in which she returns to her childhood days in Tehran and Ramat Hasharon, I wondered why she did not actually call it "Days of Innocence", as the iconic theme song of the second album.

Combinations such as "shadow of dreams, the weight of the past, a burden of loneliness and fear," written by Tzruya Lahav, can well describe some of the episodes that appear in it.

Do Rita think of these stories when she sings this song?



However, the connection between that poem and the new book is not limited to association: Lahav is also the illuminating editor.

The collaboration between the two, which led to other successful songs ("Singing in the Streets", "To a Tiger") proved itself this time as well: "Chador Drips Rainwater" is indeed short (less than 150 pages) - but it is a wonderful and fluid book , Rich in details and descriptions and yet not tedious, which excites its readers and excites its protagonists, even without making assumptions for them.

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back to childhood.

"Sador dripped with rainwater" (Photo: Modan Publishing)

"Chador Drips Rainwater" joins the bright shelf of Israeli music, which has been filled with several books in the last two years, each in a slightly different style, by Sharon Moldavi, Eran Tzur, Nir Materso, Aharon Razel and Yehuda Poliker.

Rita's book is similar in character mainly to the latter, in content and form: like it, it takes place mainly in childhood, before success, and hardly enters the depths of the artist's career;

Like him, he is embedded in the trauma of immigration as it is expressed in the family cell.



This resemblance is interesting, because something tiny can be identified from it even in the career lines of Rita and Poliker (beyond collaborations here and there) - two of the most successful singers of the 90s, who chose to return and record songs and melodies from their culture of origin.

Rita did this about a decade ago, with the album "My Joys" in which she renewed songs in Persian and the film "Rita Yahan Poros" that accompanied her in the process, in which she revealed a small part of the stories that appear in the new book.

To sum up, and it seems to me that this can be said, childhood, sounds, tastes and smells are revealed for both as powerful and effective creative engines, and observing them helps to better understand the late, separate and not necessarily related work, or at least the disguised tensions behind it.

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About a dozen personally-processed personal-family episodes - most of them sad - appear in "Chador Dripping Rainwater," and are divided into three sections.

The first deals with her parents, Samuel and Nahid-Sharona, the beginning of their lives and their marriage.

She was orphaned at a young age from a mother and her father was not present, until she married her husband at the age of 15;

He, who was then almost double her in his years, had to deal with his mother who did not see her bride favorably, according to the narrator.

This part of the book was more "free" than the others, since the narrator was not present at that stage in the environment.



The second gate goes back to the childhood of Rita, the third of three sisters (another sister was born in the country), and includes some stories that bring the innocent girl together with the arbitrariness and cruelty of existence, like how she fell from a height of four and a half floors, how she was almost abducted by old furniture dealers. Encountered anti-Semitism and found out what a war is.

The third gate describes moments from the aliyah experience, from the silent loneliness of the beginning, the frustration of the parents and the games in the neighborhood.

Alongside these, there are also two "modern" chapters, dedicated to her sister Mitra and her childhood friends.



Beyond eloquence, Rita manages to enrich and wrap these childhood stories, which are sometimes almost anecdotal - about added value.

First of all, it's a matter of description: the attire, the food, the demons, the nature, the smells, the sights, the tastes, the sounds and the stories of eccentric characters - all of these are accompanied by many words in Persian (like the one in the book title, "Chador"). The head and the whole body), and fill the book with animals.

Thanks to these, the book makes some of those anecdotes almost practical, and Rita manages to even connect some of them with the moral of the mind.

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An effective creative engine.

Rita appears at the UN with songs in Persian, 2013 (Photo: Reuters)

Still, without some music it is impossible.

Here are some endearing mini-stories about the beginning of the path of someone who will become one of the most beloved Israeli singers of all time.

For example, how she fell in love with Elvis as a little girl;

How she started writing songs even before she could write;

How she and her cousin, barely in first grade, decided to perform in the neighborhood to earn a few bucks (Rita preferred to dance instead of sing and drum, in what she humorously calls her "first tour");

How thanks to the singing she felt for the first time belonging here, when she was accepted into the choir at school singing "Here's what is good and what is pleasant";

And also of whom she thinks when she sings of "a feather in the wind" (the answer on page 131, to the agitated).



But the closing pages of the book have two even more interesting confessions, more relevant to the artist Scratch has become.

The first is a monologue about the personal price of living as a successful singer back from her, a sentiment she previously expressed in the song "Diary," for example.

"The sense of responsibility for people's hearts is great, and sometimes overshadows my life, myself and my well-being," she writes, recalling a relinquishment of privacy, loneliness on stage and a not insignificant mental burden on an artist whose huge audience expects him to sing his life.

The concluding sentence is even more blatant: "And in front of the mirror in the shower, when I remove the makeup, the private Rita will look at the singer Rita and say: In the next incarnation it will be just me."

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In a sense, it seems to me that in these lines Rita also comes to terms with the reader-fan and stings him: Here, did you want to peek inside?

Here, now you really know what it's like to be who I am.

A page and a half later, however, she explains what motivates her, through the story of the first time she held a microphone at a wedding of relatives in Iran.

In an excited and wonderful paragraph she describes how she felt when she started singing.

It is highly recommended to read it all, but in the meantime here are a few lines from it: "I sing and the vibration of sounds crosses me, emerges and rises from me into hidden worlds. I feel that there is nothing in the world I need to know anymore. All hidden secrets are revealed before me, I understand everything without understanding anything "I do not know how long it took and where I came from, I only know that I am coming home," she writes at the end of the book, "... I was four years old, and I have not stopped singing since."



These lines illustrate two things: The first is that going back to childhood is the key.

Everything we wanted to know about Rita the successful singer, the total artist, is right here;

The second - how lucky we all are, that she really did not stop singing.

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