JERUSALEM (AP) — Svika Pick, a mainstay of Israel's music industry who acquired worldwide consideration after his melody won the Eurovision Song Contest, has kicked the bucket. He was 72.
Pick, known as "the Maestro" in Israeli pop circles, was a vocalist, writer and productive lyricist who wrote many No. 1 hits. After fresh insight about his passing broke Sunday, Israeli radio broadcasts slice off customary programming to communicate his music.
Pick's infectious pop melodies, extending as far back as the 1970s, turned into a soundtrack of the country. He started his vocation in front of an audience with a job in the melodic "Hair" and all through the many years turned into a backbone of the Israeli music scene. An assortment of his melodies was transformed into a melodic in the mid 2000s.
Among his most popular tunes was "Diva," composed for the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest and performed by vocalist Dana International. That tune won the unconventional rivalry that year and onlookers have over and again picked it as among the challenge's unsurpassed best passages. In an explanation. Dana International referred to Pick as "an Israeli social symbol. A pioneer. A skilled writer. The ruler of Israeli pop."
Toward the beginning of his vocation, Pick carried a style to Israel's music scene with his David Bowie-esque dress and mark long hair when the nation's entertainers and crowds were more moderate.
The Pick name earned further worldwide respect when Daniella Pick, one of Zvika's four kids, wedded American chief Quentin Tarantino. The couple as of late had a subsequent youngster and parted their time among Israel and the U.S.
Pick experienced a stroke in 2018 which hindered his discourse and development. While his condition improved fairly since, he didn't get back to perform or compose as frequently as he once did.
Pick's demise drew sympathies from all strolls of Israeli life, including legislators, individual craftsmen and common Israelis. The reason for death was not promptly known.
Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said Pick's melodies "entered the Israeli heart and culture and transformed into a hymn."
"Svika passed on today yet his melodies and pieces that he abandoned will keep on being played long into the future," Lapid said.