Hi / חי - Israel 1983 - Eurovision songs with live orchestra
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"Hi" / חי
Country : Israel
Year : 1983
Performed by : Ofra Haza עפרה חזה
Lyrics : Ehud Manor
Music : Avi Toledano
Arrangement : Silviu Nansi Brandes
Conductor : Silviu Nansi Brandes
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A young Jewish lady on a German stage four decades after the Holocaust singing about how she and her people are still alive. Beautiful.
In the city where in the previous decade, terrorists killed Israelis...
She is mizrahim, not askenazi
@@dgaamor3260still, the Jews are one. Ethnicities do not separate the Jewish people.
@@dgaamor3260 doesn't make her any less Jewish
@@dgaamor3260,
אנחנו יהודים אשכנזיים. וגרים בישראל
The most melodic flipping of a middle finger ever.
Yesssss
hahaha still not surpassed indeed!
This is our massage to all the Nazis including the Palestinians around the globe!: am israel hi madafaka!!!🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱💙💙💙💙🤍🤍🤍
Musical diplomacy.
😂😂😂😂
מרטיט - על אדמת גרמניה - לבושים בצהוב - ושרים אני עוד חי. כלומר, לא הצלחתם להשמיד אותנו. ואיזה ביצוע מדהים. בתקופה שאין אפקטים והכל בלייב. רק אז שומעים כמה הקול של עפרה חזה צלול ונקי.
The real spirit of the Israeli nation is in that song
The spirit of stealing other people's land, Apartheid and genocide. Good spirit. The good European values.
god bless the israeli people from england,we are with you,not the flag carrying weirdos you see on tv in our streets,great song!
An amazing song, a timeless performance that brought the house down. This absolutely should've won, and it was so anticlimactic that it only finished 6 points shy of doing so.
Consider the fact that Turkey didn't award any points to Israel in all the 80's and the only country to do so while giving Luxembourg 12 points - i would say this won.
nevertheless the song is a victory of it self to Israel and they Jewish people singing the Israel is alive in the very same spot that 50 years earlier the Nazi party raised to power that annihilated the Jews was and 11 years earlier 11 of the participants to the Olympic games in Munich from Israel was murdered.
Greatest Eurovision of all time. I've never forgiven Cyprus and Turkey, nor Luxembourg for winning. I'm neither Israeli or even Jewish, but I bear a grudge 😂
One of the most beautiful voices ever, ❤❤❤💔
So many of ISR's entries are fitting with the situation now:
1983, 2002, 2006, 2009, 2019
1973, 1991
1995
2024
@@LeahFriedman-gj9qo that goes without saying.
For me 2023 is such a strong reference to the situation that am Israel would find itself in just a couple of months later.
"Older stories time to go away"
"History got in a loop, don't you wanna change it?"
The rightful winner of ESC 1983.
She ended 2nd
100%
@@dimitrymalgin523UNFORTUNATELY. ISRAEL 🇮🇱 SHOULD BE WON 1983 ESC, NOT LUXEMBOURG 🇱🇺. 😔😔🇨🇾🇨🇾
@@ДмитрийЛебедик-л4у ISRAEL 🇮🇱 SHOULD HAVE WON ESC, NOT LUXEMBOURG 🇱🇺 😔😔🇨🇾🇨🇾
@@giorgosfylaktou2610i agree
Listen my friends
I’m still alive!
And my eyes still look upon the light
I have many thorns but also flowers
There are many years a head of me
Let me just ask and pray
Hope has not been lost!
A psalm keeps going
From one generation to anther
Like a fountain
Of eternity
Let me ask and pray
Hope has not been lost! (In Hebrew: it is good that hope was not lost).
Chai Chai Chai (in Hebrew “alive”)
Yes I’m still alive
That is the song
That grandpa has yesterday sung to dad
And today, I am still alive
I’m am still alive alive alive
The people of Israel are still alive
That is the song that grandpa has yesterday sung to dad
And today I am ...
My days are busy and so are my nights
I can see ahead of me the pillar of fire rising still
I will sing until eternity
I will spread my hands
To my friends across the sea
I shall ask and pray
Hope has not been lost!
Chai, Chai, Chai...
R.I.P Ofra Haza
Has she died?😥
@@veksivv3993 It’s been 21 years hahahah
@@veksivv3993 Yes read her story it's really sad actually. :(
@@50sRockChick what happened
@@윤기민-b5p Read her story.
This song and its meaning makes me burst into tears nearly every time I listen to it
I've read the translation but I still don't understand, could you tell me the meaning.
@@_.belladonna_ it’s basically about how Jewish people (and Israeli’s) are the targets of constant hate from around the world. But this song is saying that even though there’s a lot of problems she (Jewish people) are alive and well
@@_.belladonna_ More precisely, the competition that year(1983) was held in Munich, Germany, and it's a sort of a cheerful "up yours" to the Germans, saying the Jewish people are still alive and not going anywhere, the yellow clothing's symbolizes the yellow patch the Jews were forced to wear during the holocaust.
I completedly agree. I cannot believe that she died so young!
@@v5x600also in the germany olympic games in the 70s i think when the israeli athletes were murdered, they still decided to send singers to germany again for eurovision. I think the red flowers on the dancers might represent the blood of the athletes
One of my fav esc song greetings from Turkey 🇹🇷
Türkmüsün. Ben bizim şarkıyı hiç beğenmedim. Ama İsrail'in 1970 ve sonrası müzikleri çok güzel
@@fratkannish5717 cok kotuydu amk girmesek daha iyiydi gercekten
@@fratkannish5717bende Türküm ama şarkı güzel şarkı o dönemin en iyisi diyebiliriz ofranin sesi çok güzel israili tebrik ederim 😊🤗😍❣️👏🫶
Slm bro turklere selam ❤
When Israel were announced as up next by Marlene (just before this clip cuts in) the audience applaud warmly. A lovely gesture of how far we'd come by 1983.
מלכה. יש אחת וזו את עופרה יהי זכרך ברוך
38 years after the Nazis tried to exterminate the Jewish people on earth, Ofra Haza stood on the Eurovision stage in Munich, Germany, along with 5 other escorts dressed in yellow, a memorial to the yellow badge - and a total of 6 on stage, a memorial to the 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust , And sang the words of Ehud Manor "Live, live, live, yes, I am still alive" to the German people and to the whole world.
I think this is one of the craziest events, not in the history of the Eurovision Song Contest, not in the history of the Jewish people, in the history of all mankind. When they tried to destroy him, he stood on a stage in the country that tried to destroy him, and sang to him, in free words, "Zubi on you and on your face, I'm still alive, youre plan did not go, a 'final' solution, you will make pickles, this is the song Grandpa sang to Dad yesterday, And now I, here, live, there is no Your Pace. '
Whenever I think that something is impossible, that something can not be done, that there is no hope, I remember this amazing moment, and realize that not only are we a strong people, and not only that we, as my father says, "do not remember, but also do not forget", we have Even the best sense of humor in history, and that the best revenge, is served cold - and in poetry
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Well said! This performance was also held in a stadium originally built for the Munich Olympics 11 years earlier, where a group of Israeli athletes and coaches were kidnapped and murdered. This song was so powerful.
😢 Beautiful words! Rest in peace Ofra!
And then 16 years later Germany made a song about the journey to Jerusalem that was hosted in Israel.
Israel was the best country in the 80s. (1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986…).
This song deserved top 3, ellegance and great performance. For me:
1. Switzerland
2. Germany
3. Israel
xx from Spain
Rip ofra🕊🕊🪦❤️🩹
She didnt deserve at such a young age(43)❤
You will forever be known as a popstar legend❤️🩹🕊🕊
LOVE IT. LOVE OFRA HAZA
Як на мене, найкращий виступ Ізраїлю на Євробаченні! Тільки дуже шкода, що виконавиці давно немає серед живих... R.I.P. Ofra Haza
Beautiful Ofra Haza!
Died to early😢
We often listen to ” Im min Alu” and of course this Song and Hallelujah från 1979!
RIP Ofra❤️
What happened
@@margaretmcgroarty2152 Ofra Haza died of aids
@@Gustaf03 sorry to hear that
33 years old
Died in Year 2000
@@Gustaf03 I think she was 42 or 43 when she died, but still too young
Ofra Haza! Well-loved and talented woman.
Glad to see the Uk gave it 10 points , one ofthe best songs that year with sweden !!
We will win now just as we did before
Yes!!
Are you from israel?
israel or germany? ( im jewish)
@@ellabigback04 Germany hasn't won anything other than a world cup in centuries 😂
@@yaelkaynar6055 I got a duel citizenship but I'm currently American
Catchy! They kept on with the same formula as the two wins in the 70s. This lady came from a poor background to be a national icon & sadly passed away in 2000 at just 42 and her husband took his own life one year later.
RIP.
I think the husband also died of the same disease
He died of heroin use, not suicide and not AIDS. Although that probably would have killed him if the drugs hadn't.
@@Lommy9999 no he died because of a heart attack from drug use
Real winner
Yes, it is
what a song
Hear my brothers
I'm still alive
And my two eyes still look toward the light.
Many are my thorns
But also my flowers
and before me are countless years
I'm asking
and praying
It's good that hope is not lost yet.
A song passes
from generation to generation,
As an eternal spring
I'm asking
and praying
It's good that hope is not yet lost.
Alive, alive, alive
Yes, I'm still alive.
This is the song that grandpa
Sang yesterday to dad
And today It's me.
I'm still alive, alive, alive,
The people of Israel Live.
This is the song that grandpa
Sang yesterday to dad
And today It's me.
Loud are my days (alive, alive)
And so are my nights (alive, alive)
And in my skies, the pillar of fire still rises.
I'll sing forever (alive, alive)
I'll spread my hands (alive, alive)
To my friends, who are beyond the sea
I'm asking...
Alive, alive, alive...
I'm still alive, alive, alive...
Hear my brothers
I'm still alive
And my two eyes still look toward the light.
So hurray,
To all my guests
And to my sons, who ask to return
I'm asking...
Alive, alive, alive...
I'm still alive, alive, alive,...
Alive! (alive, alive)
Alive! (alive, alive)
Alive!
I'm still alive, alive alive!
Shim'u, echai, ani od chai
Ushtei enai od nisa'ot la'or
Rabim chochai, ach gam prachai
Ulefanai shanim rabot misfor
Ani sho'el umitpalel
Tov shelo avda od hatikva
Over mizmor midor ledor
Kema'ayan me'az ve'ad olam
Ani sho'el umitpalel
Tov shelo avda od hatikva
Chai, chai, chai
Ken, ani od chai
Ze hashir sheSaba shar etmol le'Aba
Vehayom ani
Ani od chai, chai, chai
Am Yisra'el chai
Ze hashir sheSaba shar etmol le'Aba
Vehayom ani
Homim yamai (Chai, chai)
Velelotai (Chai, chai)
Uveshamai, amud ha'esh od kam
Ashir bli dai (Chai, chai)
Efros yadai (Chai, chai)
Leyedidai asher me'ever yam
Ani sho'el umitpalel
Tov shelo avda od hatikva
Chai, chai, chai
Ken, ani od chai
Ze hashir sheSaba shar etmol le'Aba
Vehayom ani
Ani od chai, chai, chai
Am Yisra'el chai
Ze hashir sheSaba shar etmol le'Aba
Vehayom ani
Shim'u, echai, ani od chai
Ushtei enai od nisa'ot la'or
Az ko lechai lechol orchai
Ulevanay hamevakshim lachzor
Ani sho'el (Ani sho'el)
Umitpalel (Mitpalel)
Tov shelo avda od hatikva
Chai, chai, chai
Ken, ani od chai
Ze hashir sheSaba shar etmol le'Aba
Vehayom ani
Ani od chai, chai, chai
Am Yisra'el chai
Ze hashir sheSaba shar etmol le'Aba
Vehayom ani
Chai, chai, chai
Ani od chai, chai, chai
Thank you turk musun? 😅
A charming and beautiful Ofra with a great chorus and a wonderful song that provokes positive emotions in everyone!
I am glad that the audience has reacted with enthausiasm!
R.I.P. Ofra Haza
The BEST ever!
love ofra haza
Une grande chanson, vraiment !
The best Ofra Haza❤
If ESC was not affected by politics (even back then) that would be the winner.
I'm not totally sure but I think politics technically weren't banned back then
Beautiful! I wish she were still alive.
sand this for my school hebrew singing party! Live it so much!! 😍✨👍
sang*
Perfect and brilliant.😘
Goes into the ear and
stays in the heart.✨💖
I like this song. Positive energy.
Ofra was so talented
I love this performance. 😍
Лучшая любимая песня!
PREFECT I LOOOOVE IT FABULOUS ❤❤❤❤
Good 😸 músic and here in Brazil we love hebrew songs.
Wonderful...
And we in Israel hate Jesus the satan
"one of the nicest girls ever to conduct. Here's Nancy"
Turkish fans missing Ofra Haza..❤❤❤❤
Israel Forever amén ❤🎉
Ritmos hebreos, voz impresionante, coreografía notable y la favorita de mi hermanita pequeña.
מי שמישראל לתת לייק לתגובה
ישראלית גאה 🇮🇱
Winner imo
She sang this because she was a Jewish girl that lived during the Holocaust and now she is here, in Germany, 40 years later singing about she and her people are still alive.
Alive
Listen, my brothers, I'm still alive
And both my eyes still look into the light
Many are my thorns, but also my flowers
And I have countless years ahead of me
I ask and I pray
Good thing hope is not yet lost
A song is passed from generation to generation
Like a eternal spring
I ask and I pray
Good thing hope is not yet lost
Alive, alive, alive
Yes, I'm still alive
This is the song that Grandpa sang yesterday to Dad
And today it's me
I'm still alive, alive, alive
The Nation of Israel is alive
This is the song that Grandpa sang yesterday to Dad
And today it's me
My days rumble (Alive, alive)
As do my nights (Alive, alive)
And in my skies, the pillar of fire still stands
I'll sing forever (Alive, alive)
I'll reach out my hands (Alive, alive)
To my friends from across the seas
I ask and I pray
Good thing hope is not yet lost
Alive, alive, alive
Yes, I'm still alive
This is the song that Grandpa sang yesterday to Dad
And today it's me
I'm still alive, alive, alive
The Nation of Israel is alive
This is the song that Grandpa sang yesterday to Dad
And today it's me
Listen, my brothers, I'm still alive
And both my eyes still look into the light
So kudos to all my guests
And to my sons who ask to return
I ask (I ask)
And I pray (I pray)
Good thing hope is not yet lost
Alive, alive, alive
Yes, I'm still alive
This is the song that Grandpa sang yesterday to Dad
And today it's me
I'm still alive, alive, alive
The Nation of Israel is alive
This is the song that Grandpa sang yesterday to Dad
And today it's me
Alive, alive, alive
I'm still alive, alive, alive
Well, she couldn't live during the holocaust cause she was like 25 here, which means she was bar cca 15 years after the holocaust, but her parents and grandparents lived through it.
@@zaessek3326 Her parents are for Yemen, so no.
She was Yemenite jew. Nazi germany didn't make it to Yemen or Saudian peninsula...
@@Random_Person_91 its the arabian peninsula and she was born 57 anyways 12 years after the end of the war
She was born in 1957, so she herself was not in the Holocaust but many of her family members, for sure
The real winner of ESC 1983 ❤
The title is wrong: It is not Hi (hello), it's Chai (Jai in spanish), which means life / alive (it was a nice message to the germans that hosted that Eurovision from israeli jews that nation would have killed during the 3rd Reich, just a few years before.
Thank you! I always interpreted it as, Hi, we're still here for some reason.
There is more than one "correct" transliteration into English with Latin characters.
Hebrew isn't English, so it's technically חי - so lets celebrate it ;)
1983 was a great year: Israel, Luxembourg, Sweden, UK...😍
And Yugoslavia too! But Ofra Haza was the best!
My winner
The 1983 ESC had the better orchestra in the contest ever!! Just hear that bass!!
A great song.
Rest in Peace Ofrah 🙏❤️
Pesma za večnost!
*Hear my siblings*
(shimo èhai)
*I'm still alive*
(Anee od Hai)
*And both my eyes, still lifted towards light*
(Ushtey eynuy, od nisà-ot la'or)
Apart from the obvious meaning of Jewish people representing their young independent state despite the Nazi genocide, saying, not only you didn't annihilate all of us, you also didn't break my spirit or hope. There's also another sad and less aggrandized meaning; After the holocaust there was the radio and newspaper "Section of Seeking Relatives." A broadcaster or journal ads would name the surviving advertee, his contact and whereabout, and whom they seek 😢 Survivers in Israel would put the radio on listen with an iota of faith, hoping maybe their siblings or any relatives survived the Nazi death camps against all odds and are looking for them. A lot of families reunite that way. A lot didn't. The lyrics are also somewhat reminiscing of the Section of Seeking Relatives radio hour.
FABULOUS AMAIZING LOVE IT ❤❤❤❤
Una gran canción y gran artista que se dio a conocer en Europa poco a poco,de las mejores de 1983 y de Israel en el festival de Eurovisión...justo lo que esperamos ver de este país en el festival.
There is a mistake in the name of lyrics writer - it is Ehud Manur - not Yehuram Taharlev - both by the way very talented
Rip ofra haza, died way to early and should win 83
R.I.P Ofra haza 😭😭😭
עופרה תמיד את בליבנו
LOVE 😍 FROM CYPRUS 🇨🇾 👍👍OFRA HAZA SHOULD HAVE WON THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST IN MUNICH BACK IN 1983, NOT LUXEMBOURG AND I DON'T REGRET SAYING THAT.
Ofra Haza For Ever
Why on earth did this not win.
Because Israel 😂. The Israeli jury gave the maximum 12 to Luxembourg and Luxembourg finished first place 6 points from Israel which took the second place 😅😅😅
עם ישראל חי
she was interviewed on the night of the 1999 contest where she announced about her illness that she would lost her life to 9 months later, what a great musical legend of the 20th century
Impressive
Absolutely brilliant 😊
I didn't know Avi Toledano, who took part for Israel in 1982, created the music
Avi deed in 1982 mee en dan maakt hij deze geweldige song dat moest winnen en trouwens avi moest toen ook winnen voor Israël heb het niet voor Nicole
Época dorada de Israel
I think this year there could have been two winners. It was very difficult to choose between two excellent songs: that of Israel and that of Luxembourg which finally won.
This song brings back memories of doing Israeli dancing in primary school
The Lyrics not by
Yoram Tehar- Lev
Lyrics by * EHUD MANOR
Composed by AVI TOLEDANO
wdym this didn't win????
Guess Corine Hermes only won because she performed last. Otherwise this one had won.
Despite Corine performing 20/20, Ofra performed 16/20, which is also a decent starting position
@@bluegacha9974 well, the difference between 16th as starting position and 20th perhaps could make that difference of 6 or 7 points in the results. But unfortunately, wel'll never know.
Such a good song, it's lyrics are such a dis to people who wish harm or death on the Jews.
OFRA HAZA SHOULD HAVE WON THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST BACK IN MUNICH 1983, NOT LUXEMBOURG.
Hahaha, I just watched this song yesterday.
Ofraza haza ist Kult Gruß Patrick
A good group
Νice song although I do not understand the words. I did not know that this lady died so young...may her soul rest in peace.
I'll just say it's an ironic song considering what's happening in Israel rn
@@36200 הוא יחיה, אבל הוא במשבר. אני חושב שזה מה שחשבתי עליו.
Translation: song name - Hai (alive)
Hear my brothers, i'm still alive, and my 2 eyes are lifting towards the light, my powers are many, and my flowers, and ahed of me many years to count, i ask, and pray, it's good that the hope isn't lost yet, the song passes from one generation to the next, for eternity, i ask, and pray, it's good that the hope isn't lost yet... alive alive alive, yes i'm still alive, this is the song that grandpa sang yesterday to dad, and today i'm (singing), i'm still alive alive alive, the nation of Israel are alive, this is the song that grandpa sang yesterday to dad, and today i'm (singing). My days are busy, and my nights, and in my skies, the pillar of fire is still here. I will sing non-stop, will spread my hands, to my friends who are overseas, i ask and pray, it's good that the hope isn't lost yet... alive alive alive, yes i'm still alive, this is the song that grandpa sang yesterday to dad, and today i'm (singing), i'm still alive alive alive, the nation of Israel is alive, this is the song that grandpa sang yesterday to dad, and today i'm (singing). Hear my brothers, i'm still alive, and my 2 eyes are lifting towards the light, so all of my brothers, and all of my guests, and my sons who request to come back, i ask and pray, it's good that the hope isn't lost yet... alive alive alive, ye's i'm still alive, this is the song that grandpa sang yesterday to dad, and today i'm (singing). i'm still alive alive alive, the nation of Israel is alive, this is the song that grandpa sang yesterday to dad, and today i'm... alive, alive, alive... i'm still alive alive alive!
RIP Ofra
Ofra 🙂
escLIVEmusic1, what's your take on why this orchestra were particularly outstanding (and do you have a year where you think they were better?). I think this song is possibly the finest moment by any orchestra in the contest's history.
I'm going to jump in here. I'm not sure what ARD did with the sound mix, but there's such a lovely, warm "punch" to the sound mix. But the Dieter Reith Orchestra absolutely lift the roof off of every song in the contest in 1983.
Ofra Haza should have won!
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Metsuyan!!!
מילים אהוד מנור
Gobsmacked that Andrew Lloyd Webber hasn't tried to sue them for copyright over that opening! 😂
Jesus Christ superstar LOL
I thought Ehud Manor wrote the lyrics
He did
❤
To @Ginea25, did you type "middle finger "
Well,that aged like wine
it has no political references to whatever you are talking about. It is random as saying "Well that aged like wine" on a Russian music video. stfu
@@itsdramahere No Political reference? Israels contribution to ESC in Germany is basically 40 years after the Holocaust 'We are still alive!'. Very political!
Politics are fine.
GOD BLESS ISRAEL< SHALOM!
mistake : the lyrics by Ehud Manor. RIP
"One of the nicest girls.."...quite a 'perception'