Roni Dalumi
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Roni Daloomi is an Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

i singer. She won the final of Kochav Nolad 7 contest in August 2009.

Biography

Roni Daloomi was born and raised in Omer, Israel
Omer, Israel
Omer is a town in the South District of Israel, bordering Beersheba. It is located on Highway 60, between Beersheba and the Shoket Junction. Pini Badash has served as head of its local council since 1990....

. She started singing at the age of twelve after seven years of dancing with the Bat Dor Dance Company in Beer Sheva. She participated in "Shir Nolad", a children's song festival, in 2006. In April 2010 Dalumi was drafted into in the Israeli Defense Forces as a singer in a military entertainment troupe.

Kochav Nolad 7

Daloomi was the judges' least favorite contestant after being ranked last by most of them throughout the season, especially by Gal Uchovsky. Despite this, Daloomi was saved by the audience every time and made it to the final in Eilat where she won the competition with 61% of the votes (after being ranked last by the judges once again). Daloomi is the youngest winner of the show to date, being only 17 years old at the time, and the first female to win since first season's winner Ninet Tayeb.

Auditions:
Audition Number Original Performer Additional Information
First Solo Audition "Shir Le'lo Shem" (A Song Without A Name) Yehudit Ravitz
Yehudit Ravitz
Yehudit Ravitz is an Israeli singer-songwriter. She was born in Be'er Sheva, in southern Israel. As of 2010, she had released 20 albums and has been performing for nearly 20 years, also musically producing several albums for other musicians.-Music career:...

Second Audition "Hak'hnisini" (Put Me) Rita A capella audition
Third Audition "Kol Ma She'Nishar" (Everything That's Left) Boten Matok Ba'Kirkas Duet audition
Fourth Audition "Haish Ha'hu" (That Man) Yehudit Ravitz
Yehudit Ravitz
Yehudit Ravitz is an Israeli singer-songwriter. She was born in Be'er Sheva, in southern Israel. As of 2010, she had released 20 albums and has been performing for nearly 20 years, also musically producing several albums for other musicians.-Music career:...

 and Ahuva Ozery
Final audition.


Performances during the competition:
Week Number Original Performer Additional Information
First Week (June 28) "Tiftach Halon" (Open a window) Rita (Israeli singer)
Second Week (July 5) "Hak'hayim Yafim" (Life Is Beautiful) Achinoam Nini
Achinoam Nini
Achinoam Nini , also known by her professional name, Noa, is a leading Israeli international concert and recording artist.-Career:...

Ranked last by the judges, saved by the audience.
Third Week (July 12) "Tzliley Hasheket" (The Sound Of Silence) Ha'parvarim (org. version Simon and Garfunkel
Simon and Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel are an American duo consisting of singer-songwriter Paul Simon and singer Art Garfunkel. They formed the group Tom & Jerry in 1957 and had their first success with the minor hit "Hey, Schoolgirl". As Simon & Garfunkel, the duo rose to fame in 1965, largely on the strength of the...

)
Duet with Or Kolenberg. Ranked last by the judges, saved by the audience.
Third Week (July 13) "Halomot Shmurim" (Safe Dreams) Yizhar Cohen Ehud Manor
Ehud Manor
Ehud Manor was an Israeli songwriter, translator, and radio and TV personality.-Career:Manor began working for Israel radio in the 1960s, as a musical editor...

 special.
Fourth Week (July 19) "Femme Fatale" Yuval Banai
Yuval Banai
Yuval Banay is an Israeli musician, best known as the lead singer of the influential Israeli pop rock band Mashina.-Personal life:Yuval was born on June 9, 1962 in Tel-Aviv to Yossi and Ilana Banai...

 (org. version Velvet Underground)
Duet with Mei Finegold
Mei Finegold
Mei Finegold is an Israeli singer. Recently, Finegold Participated in Kokhav Nolad 7, Israel's version of American Idol. Though considered to be the winner from the season premier, she finished only in the 3rd place....

.
Fourth Week (July 20) "Matchila Mehatchala" (Starting anew) Mango Ranked last by Gal Uchovsky
Fifth Week (July 26) "Hi" (She) Matti Caspi
Matti Caspi
Matti Caspi is an Israeli composer, musician, singer, and lyricist. Born in 1949, he is regarded as one of Israel’s top musicians.His music style is difficult to classify. He is influenced by classical music, Brazilian and Latin music, Jazz, Rock and other genres. It is possible to hear all these...

 (org. version Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello , born Declan Patrick MacManus, is an English singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the punk/New Wave genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader...

)
Duet with Paula Valstein. Ranked Last by the judges. Bottom two.
Fifth Week (July 26) "Ba'a Elechem" (Come to you) Miri Mesika
Miri Mesika
Miriam "Miri" Mesika is an Israeli singer and actress. She won several Israeli Female Singer of the Year awards. She has sold more than 100,000 copies of her albums in Israel.-Background:...

Rescue solo. Ranked last by Gal Uchovsky. Safe.
Fifth week (July 27) "Cada Dia" (Everyday) Idan Raichel's Project Sung entirely in Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

.
Sixth Week (August 4) "Eifo At Ahavati" (Where are you my love) Shlomi Shabat
Shlomi Shabat
Shlomi Shabat is a popular Israeli singer, musician, and artist who sings in the oriental Mizrahi style. He comes from a sephardic family that immigrated from Turkey, and sings in Hebrew, Turkish, and Spanish.-Musical career:...

Ranked last by the judges, saved by the audience.
Sixth Week (August 4) "Keilu Kan" (As if Here/The Fire In Your Eyes
The Fire in Your Eyes
"The Fire in Your Eyes" is a 2008 single by Boaz Mauda. The song was Israel's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 in Belgrade, Serbia. On 20 May 2008 Boaz performed the song in the first semi-final of Eurovision , and won a place in the final after finishing 5th. It was the 7th song...

)
Boaz Mauda
Seventh Week (August 11) "Shetah Hahefker" (Forgotten Land) Gidi Gov
Gidi Gov
Gidi Gov , is an Israeli singer, TV host, entertainer and actor.Gov is married to playwright Anat Gov, with whom he has three children.- Early life :...

Ranked last by Gal Uchovsky
Seventh Week (August 11) "Lo Kal" (Not Easy) Ha'yehudim
Eighth Week (August 18) "VeDavid Yafe Einaim" (And David has beautiful eyes) Yigal Bashan Duet with Mei Finegold
Mei Finegold
Mei Finegold is an Israeli singer. Recently, Finegold Participated in Kokhav Nolad 7, Israel's version of American Idol. Though considered to be the winner from the season premier, she finished only in the 3rd place....

Eighth Week (August 18) "Kama K'haser" (How Missed) Itzik Shamli Duet with Re'em Cohen
Eighth Week (August 18) "Haish Ha'hu" (That Man) Yehudit Ravitz
Yehudit Ravitz
Yehudit Ravitz is an Israeli singer-songwriter. She was born in Be'er Sheva, in southern Israel. As of 2010, she had released 20 albums and has been performing for nearly 20 years, also musically producing several albums for other musicians.-Music career:...

 and Ahuva Ozery
Rescue solo. Safe.
Eighth Week (August 19) "Hashir Shelanu" (Our Song) Aviv Geffen
Aviv Geffen
Aviv Geffen is an Israeli rock musician, singer, songwriter, producer, keyboardist and guitarist. He is the son of writer and poet Yehonatan Geffen and Nurit Makover, brother of actress Shira Geffen, and an alumnus of Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music.Geffen was and is extremely popular...

Eighth Week (August 19) "Ve'im Hazman" (And With Time) Aviv Geffen
Aviv Geffen
Aviv Geffen is an Israeli rock musician, singer, songwriter, producer, keyboardist and guitarist. He is the son of writer and poet Yehonatan Geffen and Nurit Makover, brother of actress Shira Geffen, and an alumnus of Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music.Geffen was and is extremely popular...

Ranked last by Gal Uchovsky
Ninth Week - Semi Final (August 26) "Motek II" (Honey II) Roni Duani
Roni Duani
Roni Duani is a pop singer. Although she is best known for her music career, she has also been a television actress, children's television show host, and fashion model. She is often compared to the American recording artist Britney Spears.- Music career :...

Ninth Week - Semi Final (August 26) "Biglal Halayla" (Because Of The Night) Chava Alberstein
Chava Alberstein
Chava Alberstein is an Israeli singer, lyricist, composer, and musical arranger.-Biography:Chava Alberstein, born in Szczecin, Poland, moved to Israel with her family in 1950. She grew up in Kiryat Haim....

Ranked Last by the judges. Saved by the audience and qualified to the final.
Tenth Week - Final (August 30) "Kichlot Hakol VeHatmuna" (As the voice and the vision have perished) Dani Basan Ranked last by the judges, saved by the audience.
Tenth Week - Final (August 30) "Ani Esh" (I Am Fire) Ran Danker
Ran Danker
Ran Danker is an Israeli actor, singer and model. He is the son of Israeli actor Eli Danker. He has sung such songs as "אני אש" . He has also starred in the hit Israeli series HaShir Shelanu...

Ranked first by the judges.

Music career

Daloomi released her first single, "Ten" (Give) in April 2010. "Ten" was an Hebrew version to Gloria Estefan
Gloria Estefan
Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García de Estefan; known professionally as Gloria Estefan is a Cuban-born American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known as the "Queen Of Latin Pop", she is in the top 100 best selling music artists with over 100 million albums sold worldwide, 31.5 million of those...

's "Hoy", with Hebrew lyrics written by Gilad Segev. The song was nominated for "Song Of The Year." Three months later she released her second single (also a Latin cover): "Ktzat Acheret" (A Little Different), bringing Daloomi nominations for "Singer Of The Year." She won the title on Channel 24 and the children's Channel. "Ten" was voted "Song Of The Year" on th Children's Channel. In November 2010 her third single, critically acclaimed "Kach O' Kach" (Either way), also a cover of Robi Draco Rosa's "Crash Push" (English version of the song "Más y Más"), was released.

Daloomi released her debut album titled "Ktzat Acheret" (A Little Different) on December 20, 2010. The album includes ten songs in the spirit of Latin Music, including two songs which Daloomi co-wrote, and a duet with Colombian singer Marta Gomez
Marta Gómez
Marta Gómez is a Colombian singer and songwriter. After obtaining a Best Achievement Scholarship, she graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Berklee College of Music. She lives currently in the United States. Gómez and her group perform a large repertoire of songs with a mixture of rhythms that range...

 to her song "Paula Ausente"(Absent Paula), which came out as a single on February, 2011. The album received generally positive reviews, but was also criticized for consisting mostly covered versions of Latin Pop music from South America. The idea for the cover-concept album of Latin Music came after Daloomi's much praised performance of "Cada Dia" (Everyday), a song originally performed by Marta Gomez
Marta Gómez
Marta Gómez is a Colombian singer and songwriter. After obtaining a Best Achievement Scholarship, she graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Berklee College of Music. She lives currently in the United States. Gómez and her group perform a large repertoire of songs with a mixture of rhythms that range...

 in Idan Reichel's Project's third album.

Daloomi released the song "Shilchi Oto" (Send Him Away) in April 2011. The song, written by Binyamin Frank and composed by Ronit Shachar, is from a memorial day project by Galei Tzahal radio station called "Od Me'at Nahafoch Leshir" (Soon We'll Become A Song) that gathers lyrics and poetry by deceased IDF soldiers and have them composed and performed by Israeli artists.

Daloomi took part in the annual children's songs' competition Festigal as Scheherazade
Scheherazade
Scheherazade , sometimes Scheherazadea, Persian transliteration Shahrazad or Shahrzād is a legendary Persian queen and the storyteller of One Thousand and One Nights.-Narration :...

with the song "Nigmeru Li Hamilim" (I'm Out Of Words) and won second place.

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