{"id":374048,"date":"2026-04-04T03:33:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/374048\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T03:33:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:33:16","slug":"suki-lahav-israeli-artist-and-bruce-springsteens-former-violinist-dead-at-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/374048\/","title":{"rendered":"Suki Lahav, Israeli artist and Bruce Springsteen’s former violinist, dead at 74"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tzruya \u201cSuki\u201d Lahav, a violinist and poet who played with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band in the mid 1970\u2019s on some of the band\u2019s most beloved LPs, has died. She was 74.<\/p>\n

Yonatan Albalak, her son, posted on Facebook<\/a> April 2 that his mother had been \u201cgathered into infinity after a short and hard battle with the cursed disease\u201d of cancer.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe wrote songs that touched people\u2019s hearts,\u201d he wrote, describing her as \u201ca special woman, smart, pure in heart and loving life. She was the best mom I could ever ask for.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lahav\u2019s tenure with the group lasted only between 1974 and 1975, yet she contributed several standout moments to Springsteen\u2019s catalog. She performed on \u201cThe Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle\u201d and its follow-up, the smash \u201cBorn to Run.\u201d She played the famed violin intro to the classic single \u201cJungleland,\u201d and performed the multi-tracked choir on \u201c4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)\u201d after a church vocal group failed to turn up for the session. She also played on a fan-favorite, widely-bootlegged cover of Bob Dylan\u2019s \u201cI Want You.\u201d <\/p>\n

She entered Springsteen\u2019s camp after her husband, Louis Lahav, engineered on Springsteen\u2019s 1972 debut album, \u201cGreetings From Asbury Park.\u201d Lahav told the Jerusalem Post in 2007 <\/a>that she joined the group as \u201ca young girl in a flowing white dress from Kibbutz Ayelet Hashahar in the Upper Galilee, barely out of the army, barely married … I went from kibbutz harvest music to rocking with Bruce.\u201d<\/p>\n

She remained a major artist in Israel for decades after her tenure with Springsteen. She recorded with the Israeli rock band Tamuz, and wrote songs for prominent Israeli artists like Rita, including \u201cYemei Hatom\u201d and \u201cShara Barkhovot.\u201d She won the ACUM Lifetime Achievement Award and the Arik Einstein Prize there. In 1990, \u201cShara Barkhovot\u201d was Israel\u2019s submission to the Eurovision Song Contest. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tzruya \u201cSuki\u201d Lahav, a violinist and poet who played with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45613,19633,179412,179411,5155,42,3247,44846,46,179410,179409,43,179413,2702,50554,178741,52601,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-374048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-asbury-park","9":"tag-bruce-springsteen","10":"tag-e-street-band","11":"tag-former-violinist","12":"tag-group","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-heart","15":"tag-husband","16":"tag-israel","17":"tag-israeli-artist","18":"tag-lahav","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-shara-barkhovot","21":"tag-song","22":"tag-springsteen","23":"tag-suki-lahav","24":"tag-tenure","25":"tag-top-news","26":"tag-top-stories","27":"tag-topnews","28":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}