Diva was the winning song of the Eurovision Song Contest 1998 performed in Hebrew by Dana International representing Israel. The Eurovision Song Contest 1998 was the 43rd Eurovision Song Contest and was held on May 9, 1998 in Birmingham, England. ... Hebrew (עִבְרִית ‘Ivrit) is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Jewish communities around the world. ... Dana International performs at the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest Dana International (Hebrew: דנה אינטרנשיונל); (stage name of Sharon Cohen, born Yaron Cohen in Tel Aviv, Israel on February 2, 1972) is an Israeli transsexual pop singer of Yemenite origin, who won the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest for her song Diva. She was...

The song is important for a number of reasons, most notably because it was the last entry entirely in a language other than English to win the Contest to date. The interval act before the announcement of votes and Dana's reprise of the song also represents the last time that live music from an orchestra was used in the Contest, as the 1999 Contest was held in a venue not large enough to hold orchestras. Dana is also currently the only transgendered singer to win the Contest.

The song is an ode to the powerful women of history - with Cleopatra in fact being the only real figure named. Victoria, the Roman goddess of victory and Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of beauty are also named. This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... In Roman mythology, Victoria was the goddess of victory. ... Birth of Venus (a. ...

The song was succeeded in 1999 as Contest winner by Charlotte Nilsson, performing Take Me To Your Heaven for Sweden. Charlotte Perrelli (maiden name Charlotte Nilsson, born October 7, 1974 in Hovmantorp, Sweden) is a Swedish singer. ...