{"id":10357,"date":"2019-05-05T12:22:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T09:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2019\/05\/05\/dana-international-diva-israels-third-eurovision-victory-birmingham-1998"},"modified":"2019-05-12T22:11:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T19:11:49","slug":"dana-international-diva-israels-third-eurovision-victory-birmingham-1998","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2019\/05\/05\/dana-international-diva-israels-third-eurovision-victory-birmingham-1998\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana International: Diva &#8211; Israel&#8217;s 3rd Eurovision Victory (Birmingham, 1998)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"embed\"><iframe width=\"1170\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fZ5B6w-Baxs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p><em>This video present\u2019s Israel\u2019s winning song in the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest in Birmingham, \u201cDiva\u201d by Dana International, a transgender woman and one\u00a0of Israel&#8217;s most successful singers ever. The first transgender person to win Eurovision, Dana International\u00a0became a symbol for the LGBTQ community in Israel and around the world.\u00a0<\/em><em>The uptempo dance song is an ode to powerful women, including Cleopatra, the ruler of ancient Egypt, Victoria, the Roman goddess of victory, and Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of beauty. The original lyrics listed the biblical matriarchs, Rachel, Miriam and Sarah, but Dana International refused to sing them because the message was not universal.\u00a0<\/em><em>Originally sung in Hebrew, &#8220;Diva&#8221; was the last non-English song to win the contest until 2007. The official English version of the song with accompanying lyrics is featured below. Considered a Eurovision classic, this song was chosen as the 13th most popular song in the history of Eurovision, performed by Dana International at the Eurovision 50th anniversary concert in Copenhagen in 2005.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"embed\"><iframe width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NsPksS8QWWY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<div class=\"G1VCxe kno-fb-ctx\" data-lyricid=\"Musixmatch2562863\">\n<h3>Diva<\/h3>\n<div>She&#8217;s all<br \/>\nyou&#8217;ll ever dream to find,<br \/>\nOn her stage<br \/>\nshe sings her story.<br \/>\nPain and hurt<br \/>\nwill steal her heart tonight,<br \/>\nLike a queen<br \/>\nin all her glory.<\/div>\n<div>Chorus:<\/div>\n<div>And when she cries diva,<br \/>\nhe&#8217;s an angel,<br \/>\nWhen she laughs,<br \/>\nshe&#8217;s a devil,<br \/>\nShe is all<br \/>\nbeauty and love.<br \/>\nViva Maria<br \/>\nViva Victoria<br \/>\nAphrodita<br \/>\nViva la diva<br \/>\nViva Victoria<br \/>\nCleopatra<\/div>\n<div>Silent tears<br \/>\ndrop from these eyes tonight,<br \/>\nTears of prayer<br \/>\nfor all those aching heartsChorus<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"G1VCxe kno-fb-ctx\">\n<div class=\"xpdxpnd\" data-mh=\"15\" data-mhc=\"1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video present\u2019s Israel\u2019s winning song in the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest in Birmingham, \u201cDiva\u201d by Dana International, a transgender woman and one\u00a0of Israel&#8217;s most successful singers ever. The first transgender person to win Eurovision, Dana International\u00a0became a symbol for the LGBTQ community in Israel and around the world.\u00a0The uptempo dance song is an ode [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":10358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[2670],"tags":[2671,2409,2665,3043,334],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10357\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=10357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10357\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10358\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=10357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=10357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=10357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}