Rita North America Tour June 2007

June 3 - San Francisco June 5 - Los Angeles June 9 - Washington DC June 10 - Toronto

About Rita

Originally from Iran, RITA moved to Israel with her family when she was six years old. Her music combines the Middle Eastern lilt of her Persian heritage and a more Western orientation, the influence of her American born husband, Rami Kleinstein, one of Israel's leading artists-composers-producers.

RITA studied for three years at Israel's Academy for the Arts of Stage and Screen. Her first single hit the radio in November 1985 and reached Number 1, staying there for nine weeks. In 1986 one of her songs took the country by storm and was chosen as "Song of the Year".

April 1986 saw the release of her debut album, which has sold over 120,000 copies (Triple Platinum) - and is still selling. In April 1988 a second "local" album followed, which went Gold and then Platinum almost overnight. These impressive sales figures were due in no small way to RITA's highly successful and record breaking show: 130 sold out performances.

In 1989 RITA broke into the world of the silver screen, starring as Flora in the film "The Thousand Wives of Naftali" which opened to enthusiastic reviews in Montreal, Canada. In the same year she was chosen as "Singer of the Year" by Israel's national radio station for the second consecutive year…And she was named "Woman of the Decade for the Stage Arts" by one of Israel's leading daily papers, And her tour was voted "Tour of the Year"

In 1992 RITA became a mother, and a short while after giving birth, her version of Police's "Roxanne" was released in France where it stayed at the top of the charts for a number of weeks. It took two years and an immense effort but RITA's third album "Great Love" was finally completed and released in the summer of 1994. All involved in the recording process felt the "magic", but only after the release of the first single was this feeling proved correct. The record reached Platinum in less then one month and has now gone over Triple Platinum.

RITA's "Great Love" tour was the most impressive concert production to be launched on an Israeli stage. For three years, all dates were sold out weeks in advance. After giving birth to a second daughter in 2001, RITA and her husband Rami embarked on a joint tour for the first time, performing to SRO houses everywhere. A live album of the tour was released in June 2001 and immediately reached Double Platinum. In 2003, her 6th solo album "Oxygen" was released, accompanied by a breathtaking stage show.