Background and career
Rita Jahan-Farouz (Hebrew: ריטה ג'האן-פרוז; Persian: ریتا جهانفروز), known mononymously as Rita, is an Iranian-born Israeli singer and actress.
In both 1988 and 1989, she was chosen as Singer of the Year by Israel's national radio station. Rita represented Israel in the 1990 Eurovision Song Contest.
In 2011 and 2012, Rita became famous in Iran after the release of various pop records in which she sings in her childhood native Persian language. While her music is banned in Iran, which filters the Internet, fans in Iran have downloaded or bought bootleg copies of her albums. In 2022, Rita voiced her support for the Mahsa Amini protests in Iran. She has acted in the theater and in film, and has an acting role as the mother of the protagonist in the 2025 film, Reading Lolita in Tehran, based on the Iranian memoir of the same name.
Rita has released 12 studio albums, including Rita (4× Platinum), Yamey Ha-Tom (Days of Innocence) (5× Gold), Ahava Gdola (A Great Love) (4× Platinum), Tiftah Halon (Open a Window) (2× Platinum), and Remazim (Hints) (Platinum), and sold over a million albums.
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