Aviva Semadar (Hebrew: אביבה סמדר, born March 20, 1935, Tel Aviv, British Mandate Palestine) is an Israeli folklore and chanson singer, who has been performing in solo concerts and at festivals abroad (Portugal, Netherlands, USA, Germany, etc.)

After four years, she returned to Israel, where she made some radio appearances and performed in a solo concert in Tel Aviv that received positive press reviews.

[4] Semadar made her television debut on August 10, 1963, in the Netherlands, followed by a several-week concert series at the Amsterdam cabaret theater Hypokriterion and further performances in several Dutch cities.

Later, she moved her base to Cologne, where she was a freelance employee of WDR for three decades from 1973 onwards and produced various folklore programs on the radio (Folk music from around the world, From the Bosporus to Gibraltar, etc.).

In the 1970s, she frequently appeared with songs from her repertoire on German television (including the special Aviva Semadar sings new folklore, 30 minutes, 1970) and gave solo concerts in the WDR studio (Matinee der Liedersänger, etc.

)[9] as well as individual concert evenings at various stages and venues in Germany and neighboring countries, such as in 1979 at the Theater Bel Etage in Zurich, 1980 at the Contra-Kreis-Theater in Bonn[10] and in 1984 at the Alte Oper Frankfurt[11] and as part of a Christian-Jewish forum at the German Catholic Day in the Robert Schumann Hall in Düsseldorf.