Suki Lahav
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Suki Lahav is an Israeli violinist and vocalist who is most known for being a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band from September 1974 to March 1975.
On record, Lahav sang the choir-like vocals on "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)" from the album The Wild, The Innocent and The E Street Shuffle and played violin on the epic "Jungleland" from the Born to Run album. In concert, Lahav's violin and vocals were a focal point of Springsteen's shows during this time, such as in perhaps the definitive rendition of "Incident on 57th Street", performed February 5, 1975, at the Main Point in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
Lahav's husband Louis was a recording engineer working for Springsteen during this time. They returned to Israel later in 1975, ending her role in the E Street Band. She later remarried and raised a family in Jerusalem.
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- Cross, Charles R. Backstreets: Springsteen - The Man and His Music. Harmony Books, 1989/1992. ISBN 0-517-58929-X.
Following her tenure in the E Street Band, Tzruya (or Tsruya as it is sometimes transliterated) “Suki” Lahav worked as a violinist and violist and then as an actress. She is now a successful lyricist, writing for prominent musicians and singers in Israel. She is also the author of screen plays and 2 novels: “Andre’s Wooden Clogs”, the fact-based story of a boy's survival of the Holocaust in Holland (in Hebrew, also translated to Dutch, Italian and English), and “The Swamp Queen Does The Tango“, an adult fairy tale (in Hebrew). Both books have won numerous awards and prizes for literature.
