People talk to them in the street. Dana's brand of Middle Eastern hi-NRG may be new to these shores, but in Israel she has a huge following, while in Egypt and Jordan more than 5m pirate cassettes of her songs were sold before she was branded a corrupter of youth, and her music banned. Children and young people, she says, seem to accept her sex change rather more easily than their parents' generation. Older people ten to think of me as transsexual first, singer second. But I don't mind.
People are curious, that's human nature.
I know I am going to be asked 10,000 questions about it before it will stop being a big deal. After all, her career, and her love life, are going brilliantly. I was with the love of my life for three years, but I have a jealous character. So we split. Now I am having lots of short romances.