Israel’s 2016 Eurovision Song Contest delegate is Hovi Star, a flamboyant 29-year-old singer and reality idol. Star, whose real name is Hovev Sekulets, was voted to the top spot of the Rising Star television song contest, thereby winning the ticket to Eurovision.
Star first came to public attention when he took part in another televised song contest, Kochav Nolad (‘A Star is Born’), in 2009. He also does voice overs for cartoons. “Hovi star is a nickname I received from my friends, because I’m, like, a diva,” he told Israeli website NRG. “But I’m not really a diva, because there’s no such thing in Israel. There’s Shiri Maimon, and there’s Dana International, and that’s it. In Israel you don’t get to do things in a big way.”
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