# Help me find this singer! Ack!!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-singer-ack/54513>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 14, 2001, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-singer-ack/54513 "2001-02-14T23:01:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-singer-ack/54513/1 "2001-02-14T23:01:06Z")

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I’m trying to remember the name of a singer I saw once on David Letterman back in the late 80s… her name started with an H… possibly Ha… anyway she sang sort of Eastern (India/Arabic) type music. I remember finding her in the pop section of the music store at the time. Who is it??

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**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-singer-ack/54513/2 "2001-02-14T23:05:10Z")

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[Ofra Haza](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Beamaeieeeeebeegh)? (Israeli singer of the 1980s and 1990s, sampled by Eric B & Rakim and MARRS, died last February?)

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**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-singer-ack/54513/3 "2001-02-14T23:44:20Z")

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YES! That is it! Thank you thank you thank you! Oh man, she died? ☹

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**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-singer-ack/54513/4 "2001-02-14T23:47:27Z")

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AIDS-related complications, unfortunately.

I still remember “Im Nin’alu” (IIRC) making the charts here.

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**Author:** ![Narile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@Narile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Narile)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2001, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-singer-ack/54513/5 "2001-02-15T00:24:17Z")

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From the title, I’d guess you are looking for Bill T. Kat, lead singer for **Billy and the Boingers**. Alas, Mr. Kat has faded back into the obscurity from whence he came, after a scandal involving the bands Tuba Player, Jeanne KirkPatrick(sp) and two tonnes of Atlantic Herring.