Edna Bejarano is an Israeli-born German singer. She was born in 1951 in Tel Aviv, the daughter of Esther Bejarano.The family moved to Germany in 1960. She was the lead singer of the German rock band The Rattles from 1970 until 1973 and sang on their biggest selling record, the 1970 song "The Witch", which sold over one million copies globally. She also performed in the 1980s with her mother Esther Béjarano, one of the last survivors of the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz, in the musical group Coincidence. They sang songs from the ghetto and in Hebrew as well as anti-fascist songs. From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_B%C3%A9jarano
In December 1960, the Rattles were founded in Hamburg by Achim Reichel and Herbert Hildebrandt. On February 3, 1963, the band won a competition in the Hamburg Star Club and became the first German band to play in this club. In the autumn of the same year, they recorded their first single. The group then went on a six-week tour of England with Bo Diddley, Little Richard, the Everly Brothers and the then little-known Rolling Stones. After the release of the film Hurrah, the Rattles are Coming in early 1966, they appeared on stage with the Beatles in June of the same year and played as the opening act for the Bravo Beatles Blitz tour in Munich, Essen and Hamburg - to great acclaim.
Rattles records were released that were a regional success in England, and for a time they were celebrated in Liverpool as the "German Beatles". The group had a dozen hits in total, including titles such as La La La (1965), Come On and Sing (1966) and Cauliflower (1967). In 1965 they also recorded songs with Johnny Hallyday (Laß die Leute doch reden, It's Monkeytime), which appeared on the LP/CD Johnny Hallyday Meets The Rattles.
In 1970 the Rattles had an international hit with The Witch. The song was first released as the B-side of the 1969 single Geraldine. In June 1970, The Witch reached number 79 as the A-side in the USA, and in October it reached number 8 in the UK. The Rattles line-up at this time: Kurt "Zappo" Lüngen (bass), Rainer Degner (guitar), Peet Becker (drums) and Henner Hoier (vocals), who had moved from the Rivets. Because of its success, the Rattles recorded a new version of The Witch with Edna Bejarano as singer, which climbed to number 4 in the German charts in October 1970. The piece was composed by Herbert Hildebrandt. Henner Hoier, who had sung the original, left the band a year later and founded the Les Humphries Singers with Les Humphries. By this time, Achim Reichel had long since left the group. After his time in the Bundeswehr, he founded the group Wonderland in 1967 with the ex-Rattles Dicky Tarrach and Frank Dostal, as well as Helmut Franke and Les Humphries. The "new" 1970s Rattles with Edna Bejarano, Frank Mille, Borny Bornhold and Zappo Lüngen only had something to do with the original formation insofar as Herbert Hildebrandt continued to be the composer and producer of the group. Other singles, such as You Can't Have Sunshine Every Day and Devil's on the Loose (both 1971) were only minor hits in the Federal Republic of Germany. Translated from: https://www.wikiwand.com/de/articles/The_Rattles
