Passionate about singing, Douze coups de midi and Jul’s discography, he dreams of participating in Fort Boyard despite his phobia of snakes and Father Fouras. His secret ambition? Discover what is hidden behind the mystery curtain of Bataille et Fontaine to sing there in a quartet. The truth is at the end of the corridor…
Rika Zaraï died on December 23, 2020 at the age of 82. For several years, her life had been complicated and painful, due to the consequences of a stroke that struck her in 2008.
Rika Zaraï very physically affected by a stroke: these two stars who never stopped checking in on her
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Born on February 19, 1938 in Jerusalem, Rika Zaraï – real name Rika Gozman – would have celebrated her 86th birthday in 2024. Unfortunately, the singer left us much earlier than expected. The artist died on December 23, 2020 at the age of 82 in the 15th arrondissement of Paris. She was buried in the strictest privacy, in Oisy, in Nièvre, a region where she had lived for several years.
His smiles and good humor were sometimes just a facade. Rika Zaraï’s last years were painful because of a stroke, a stroke which considerably weakened her, which occurred on June 3, 2008.It was a carefree day.”she told the newspaper The Parisian. “I had just eaten a yogurt in the kitchen, I wanted to join my husband [Jean-Pierre Magnier, NDLR.] in the living room. My hand couldn’t turn off the light and I fell. Paralyzed by a three-story stroke, the most deforming.”
Five years after suffering this stroke, Rika Zaraï continued to suffer. “I thought I had reached the height of my suffering when I had my car accident twenty-five years ago, with three head injuries and a broken body, but it was nothing compared to that…“, she admitted. Feeling weakened, “more up to par“, she ended up cutting herself off from the world, except for a few phone calls with Laurent Baffie and Annie Cordy who “never stopped taking” from her news. Her husband Jean-Pierre Magnier, however, continued to take care of her. Her veterinarian friend, Lucille, had even moved in with her to teach her how to live again.
“I no longer knew who I was. One day, friends took me to a restaurant and, looking at the menu, I found myself speechless. I no longer knew what I liked to eat. And, at night, I got up six times wondering where I was…” Rika Zaraï had been paralyzed on the left side following this stroke. She was only able to speak again two weeks after the accident. Guest on the set of the show Roll on Sunday by Michel Drucker, in December 2019, she claimed to be “like a lioness” : “I never let go of my prey, which is life“, she assured. A year later, unfortunately, France had to say goodbye to her…
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