Svika Pick Ex-Wife: Who Is Mirit Shem-Or?

Mirit Shem-Or, the ex- wife of late Svika Pick, is also an Israeli songwriter.

Born on April 23, 1945, in Tel Aviv, Shem-Or wrote many songs for Pick, which eventually became reigning hit tracks. One of them was “Mary Lou”, which was a song about her.

The couple got married in 1973, and were blessed with a son and two daughters.

Although, Shem-Or and Pick later divorced in 1995, but they never stopped their musical collaborations.

Who Was Svika Pick?

Svika Pick was a famous Israeli pop singer, songwriter, and TV personality, born on October 3, 1949, in Wrocław, Poland.

Pick became an international sensation, following his win at the Eurovision Song Contest.

Pick, whose other name is “the Maestro”, had written several No. 1 hits songs. Some of his pop songs were written as far back as 1970.

He became even more famous when his daughter, Daniella Pick, married American director Quentin Tarantino.

Pick passed away on August 14, 2022, in Ramat Hasharon, Israel, at age 72.

He had reportedly suffered a stroke back in 2018 which greatly slurred his speech and movement.

Svika Pick Career

In 1998, Pick wrote the song “Diva” which won the Eurovision Song Contest. He went ahead to write several other songs for the show’s contestants.

In 2003 he wrote the song “Hasta la Vista”, for Oleksandr Ponomaryov, a Ukrainian Eurovision contestant. He later became a judge on the show.

On the movie scene, Pick appeared in the docu-reality series HaMaestro that aired on Bip, and the musical drama series Tamid Oto Chalom. His songs were used as soundtracks for the films.