Svika Pick

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Svika Pick
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Native name צביקה פיק
Born (1949-10-03) 3 October 1949 (age 64)
Wrocław, Poland
Citizenship Israeli
Alma mater The Conservatory of Ramat Gan
Occupation Pop singer and composer
Spouse(s) Mirit Shem-Or (divorced); 3 children

Henrik Zvi "Svika" Pick (born 3 October 1949; akas: Tzvika Pik, Tsvika Pick, Zwika Pick) (Hebrew: צביקה פיק‎) is an Israeli pop singer and composer.


Henrik Zvi Pick was born in Wrocław, Poland. He studied music at the Conservatory of Ramat Gan and started to perform at age 15. Pick was married to Israeli songwriter Mirit Shem-Or. Shem-Or wrote the lyrics for many of Pick's hits, including Mary Lou, which was about herself. They are now divorced but the couple still collaborates artistically. They have three children. Two of Pick's daughters have performed duos as the Pick Sisters.[citation needed]

Music career[edit]

Pick was one of Israel's leading pop singers in the 1970s, when he was voted "Israeli male singer of the Year." He played a lead part in the Hebrew version of the musical Hair in the early 1970s.[1]

In 1998 Pick wrote the song Diva performed by Dana International, which won the Eurovision Song Contest. He also wrote songs for several other Eurovision contestants. In 2002 he composed the Light a Candle for Sarit Hadad, who represented Israel in Eurovision 2002. That year, Habima Theater staged a musical called Mary Lou based on Pick's old hits. [2]

In 2003 he composed the song Hasta la vista for Oleksandr Ponomaryov, Ukrainian entrant in Eurovision 2003. He also wrote a song for the Belarusian contestant of Eurovision 2005 Angelica Agurbash, but she later decided on a different one, acknowledging Pick for his effort. He competed seven times in the Israeli preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest. In 2010, he composed an entry for Harel Skaat for Israel, and for Sopho Nizharadze for Georgia. He was one of the judges of the TV talent show, Kokhav Nolad ("A Star is Born").[citation needed]

In 2005, he was voted the 83rd-greatest Israeli of all time.[3]

Eurovision Song Contest entries[edit]

Entries in national Eurovision pre-selections[edit]

See also[edit]


External links[edit]

  • Svika Pick maintains an official webpage on several popular social networking websites
Preceded by
Kimberley Rew
Eurovision Song Contest winning composers
Succeeded by
Lars Diedricson