Golirah is a blue gorilla who wears a blue mask, a blue rectangular hairstyle and a green cape on the back, has a blue logo of a triangle with a G. He wears blue gauntlets with green thunderbolts, a blue belt with a G, and blue boots.
Songs[]
Week
Song Selection
Result
2
"Whatever It Takes" by Imagine Dragons
SAFE
"Blinding Lights" by The Weeknd
WIN
"Purple Rain" by Prince & The Revolution
SAFE
5
"Cake by the Ocean" by DNCE
SAFE
6
"Heroes" by Måns Zelmerlöw
SAFE
7
"Lately" by Stevie Wonder
SAFE
8
"Oops!... I Did It Again" by Britney Spears
SAFE
9
"7 Rings" by Ariana Grande
SAFE
10
"Mirrors" by Justin Timberlake
SAFE
"Fix You" by Coldplay
WINNER
Clues[]
While participating in the show, Gorilah left somes clues implying he is Shai Gabso, they are explained as:
Week
Image
Explaination
2 (Ep. 4)
In the first clue we met the gorilla in the jungle. He told us, "At first everyone used to call me King Kong and it's less me, so I changed to gorilla." A few years ago Gebso added the name "Rene" to his name and said that he was reborn.
A security guard appeared in the jungle wearing the mask of the Minister of Communications, Yoaz Hendel. Handel lives in Moshav Nes Harim, which is made up of a half-secular, half-religious population, which hints at Gebso's lifestyle, which straddles the seam between religious and secular.
The gorilla told us that he feels like he doesn't belong anywhere. In the past, Gebso expressed in interviews about his feeling of not belonging in the world.
In the jungle we spotted the famous "Elevation" statue that is placed in the Bima square - three circles placed on top of each other. Gebso meets this statue quite often, as he plays in the stage theater in a play called "Curves".
2 (Ep. 5)
There were many advertisements hanging in the duel arena, among others for the MMA championship for 2021. In his youth, Gebso trained in the martial art of MMA.
The security guard hung a calendar in the arena open to the month of April, and marked day 1 and then days 3 and 4. This is a tribute to Gebso's first hit, "Yum Vur Two Days".
The security guard handed the gorilla an envelope that read, "Gal Gadot, Hollywood." What do Gebso and Gadot have in common, you wondered? Both studied with the same acting teacher.
2 (Ep. 6)
In the 80's special, the gorilla chose to perform Prince's "Purple Rain". He said this, "I chose to sing in the 80s special even though it is far from being the most important decade of my life. The 90s were the years that shaped me as the person you know." In 1996, when he was only 12 years old, Gabso repented and began his romance with religion.
The gorilla also said, "The 2000s are the years when I finally broke into consciousness." We first met Gebso when he participated in the first season of "A Star is Born", somewhere in 2003.
The gorilla inserted two cassettes into the stereo system: one had Prince written on it and the other The Artist. These are the stage names used by Prince Rogers Nelson. Gebso himself, as mentioned, also uses a stage name: Rene.
5
A hanger with an IDF soldier's uniform was placed on the stage. Gebso came to the auditions of "Kochav Nold" in the days when he was a soldier.
6
The gorilla chose to perform on stage, as a hint of his identity, the song "Heroes" which he performed on the Eurovision stage Mons Selmarlov. Like Gebso, the Swedish Selmarlov was also discovered in a music reality show called "Idol".
7
The gorilla cooked a Spanish fish paella for chef Israel Aharoni and the panel members. And what about Spain? Gebso lived there for a few months, and in fact created a musical album in Spain that was finally shelved. Gebso also wrote a column for the newspaper "Makor Rishon" about his experiences in Spain, and if that wasn't enough, he added the name "René" inspired by the book written by the Spanish painter Salvador Dali about René, the father of surrealism.
8
In the quarter finals, the gorilla took a vlog behind the scenes of "The Masked Singer". On one of the tables on the set, he found a pamphlet that read, "Script - The Gorilla Returns". Gebso studied screenwriting with Assaf Tzipori.
The gorilla asked to sit on a box, but the security guard removed him. The warning was written on the box - "Fragile". Gebso released a song called "Argazim" and was a member of a band with a particularly fragile name, "The Mirrors".
9
Ido peeked into the gorilla's dressing room and found inside a fireplace with a burning fire. In the final of "Kohav Nold" in Nitzanim, they sang the song "Ash on the Face" by Rami Kleinstein.
On the dresser next to the bed Ido found the flag of the United States. Gabso went on a college tour in the United States and even released a mini-album there.
On the dressing table were scattered many pebbles with empowering words written on them. For a period of time Gebso lived in a trailer in the settlement of Nahalim, and during this period he wrote the album "Caravan".
In the gorilla's dressing room there was a stand on which she writes sheet music, Gebso is a creative singer who writes and composes his own SONGS.
On the wall in the dressing room hung a calendar open to the month of December, with all the days of the month marked in a circle. Gebso released an album called "All the days".
10
In the finale, the gorilla told us, "I had many doubts before I got to 'The Singer in the Mask'. Is it true for me? Is this who I am? After all, I was already at the top, I tasted the sweet taste of success. But at the moment of truth I made a choice to walk away, to run away. I did Far-reaching changes. I experimented with other things." Gebso was at the height of his fame after "A Star Is Born", but he went on a journey of self-discovery and stayed away from the spotlight. He moved to live in a trailer, searched for his musical path, tried his hand at the theater, moved closer and further away from religion, married and divorced.