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Sharon Cohen (Hebrew: שרון כהן), professionally known as Dana International (דנה אינטרנשיונל) and born Yaron Cohen (ירון כהן), is an Israeli pop singer of Yemenite Jewish ancestry. She has released eight albums and three additional compilation albums, positioning herself as one of Israel's most successful musical acts ever. She is best known as the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 1998 in Birmingham with the song "Diva".
Assigned male at birth, Sharon discovered that she was transgender at an early age, and came out as a trans woman when she was 13. She underwent sex reassignment surgery in 1993 and in that year released her first album, Danna International, basing her subsequent stage name on it. After consolidating her initial commercial success with the albums Umpatampa (1994) and Maganuna (1996), she was selected in 1998 to represent Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest with her song "Diva". Placing first at the international competition, she came to public attention throughout Europe.
Israel - Dana International - Diva (live) - Eurovision 1998
Dana International - Down On Me @Baltic Pride 2016
Dana International - Cinque Milla / Qu'est-ce Que C'est @ Baltic Pride 2016
Dana International - London 2016
Dana International - LoveBoy דנה אינטרנשיונל - לאב בוי
Dana International - Loca (Official Video) דנה אינטרנשיונל - לוקה
Dana International - Ding Dong - Official Video Clip!
Dana International - Tel Aviv Pride Parade 2014 דנה אינטרנשיונל במצעד הגאווה
Dana International - Diva (Big Brother Performance in the UK)
Conchita Wurst - Rise Like a Phoenix - Waterloo (Feat. Dana International) Eurovision 2015
Free like the river
Flowing freely through infinity
Free to be sure of
What I am and who I need not be
Free from all worries
Worries prey on oneself's troubled mind
Freer than the clock's hands
Tickin' way the times
Freer than the meaning of free that man defines
Life running through me
Till I feel my father God has called
Free to be nowhere
But in every place I need to be
Freer than a sunbeam
Shining through my soul
Free from feelin' heat or knowing bitter cold
Free like the river
Free like the river
oooh hooo I am free
I'm Free, like the river.
I'm Free, like the mountain.
I'm Free, like the river.
Goin' through my mind...
I'm Free hehey like the river
oooh hooo I am free
Free
Free eee
I am Free
Free like the river
oooh hooo I am free.