Tzruya ‘Suki’ Lahav, Original Bruce Springsteen Violinist Who Played on ‘Jungleland’ and Toured With E Street Band, Dies at 74

Tzruya ‘Suki’ Lahav, Original Bruce Springsteen Violinist Who Played on ‘Jungleland’ and Toured With E Street Band, Dies at 74

Tzruya “Suki” Lahav, an Israeli songwriter and poet who is best remembered by American music fans as a violinist who recorded and toured with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band in the mid-’70s, died in Jerusalem Wednesday at age 74. Her son, musician Yonatan Lahav, wrote in a Facebook post that she died after a battle with cancer. It is Lahav’s violin part that is heard at the beginning of one of Springsteen’s most cherished recordings, “…

E Street Band Violinist Tzruya “Suki” Lahav Dead at 74

Tzruya “Suki” Lahav, an Israeli violinist who toured with the E Street Band during a pivotal five-month between between October 1974 and March 1975 — and contributed to the The Wild, The Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle and Born to Run sessions including the violin intro to “Jungleland” — died from cancer on April 1. She was 74. Lahav came into Bruce Springsteen’s orbit in 1972 when her husband, record engineer Louis Lahav, worked on Greetin…

Tzruya 'Suki' Lahav, Israeli artist and Bruce Springsteen violinist, dies at 74

Lahav wrote lyrics for legendary Israeli artists including Gidi Gov, Rita, and Yehudit Ravitz, as well as performed with Bruce Springsteen, studied theater in Los Angeles, participated in Israeli theater productions, and published several books