Victoria Hanna

Victoria Hanna (Hebrew: ויקטוריה חנה; a stage name consisting of her first and middle names) is an Israeli multi-disciplinary artist, singer and musician.

Biography
Victoria Hanna was brought up in an ultra-Orthodox Mizrahi Jewish family in Jerusalem by an Egyptian rabbi father and a Persian mother. She stuttered as a child. She was born in and lives in Jerusalem, and has three children. She studied acting in Nissan Nativ's acting studio.

Music career
Hanna composes all of her songs. She released her first video single, a song called "Aleph Bet", the name of the Hebrew alphabet, in February 2015. It went viral on YouTube, with over million hits. Hanna's second video single, which she came out with later in 2015, is "22 Letters." It has been described as Kabbalistic rap, and is based on Sefer Yetzirah "Book of Formation" or "Book of Creation". Forbes listed her as one of Israel's 50 most influential women in 2015. She promoted her debut album in 2017.

Hanna sang in the Opening Ceremonies of the 2017 Maccabiah Games.

Relevant literature

 * Busau, Filip. 2016. Victoria Hannas Kunst: Zwischen Gebet, Popkultur und Interpretation. Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Judaistik.