Miri Mesika

Miri Mesika, born on May 3, 1978, in Herzliya, Israel, to parents of Tunisian-Jewish and Iraqi-Jewish descent, is a prominent Israeli singer and actress. She studied music from a young age, learning guitar and flute & attended HaYovel High School for theatre and music. She rose to fame with her self-titled debut album in 2005, which sold over 70,000 copies and featured major hits including “LeSham” (Galgalatz Song of the Year) and “November.” Across roughly seven albums—among them Shalom LaEmunot (2007), Hadashot Tovot, Melekh, and Ocean (2021)—she has sold more than 200,000 copies in Israel and collected multiple Female Singer of the Year awards from Galgalatz, Reshet Gimel, and other outlets, plus Discovery of the Year and the 2015 Times of Israel Artist of the Year honor. Alongside her music career, Mesika has acted in Israeli films such as Three Mothers (2006) and Restless (2008), appeared in television series including Meorav Yerushalmi and Ze Lo HaGil, and performed in stage musicals like Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Les Misérables. In 2022 she starred as Dina in the West End production of The Band’s Visit, earning a 2023 Laurence Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical. She has also served as a judge on Israeli talent shows such as Kochav Nolad, The Voice, and The X Factor.

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