{"id":2359485,"date":"2026-04-05T14:46:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2359485"},"modified":"2026-04-05T14:46:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:46:32","slug":"iconic-rock-bands-ex-member-known-for-playing-with-bruce-springsteen-dead-at-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/iconic-rock-bands-ex-member-known-for-playing-with-bruce-springsteen-dead-at-74\/","title":{"rendered":"Iconic rock band\u2019s ex-member known for playing with Bruce Springsteen dead at 74"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tzruya \u201cSuki\u201d Lahav, a member of the E Street Band in the mid-1970s, has died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She was 74.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Her son, Yonatan Lahav, said in a Facebook post that she had been battling cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/music\/news\/tzruya-suki-lahav-dead-original-bruce-springsteen-violinist-was-74\/ar-AA202I6W?ocid=BingNewsSerp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Variety reported;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Variety reported&quot;}\" class=\"link \"><b>Variety reported<\/b> <\/a>that it was Lahav\u2019s violin that can be heard on Bruce Springsteen\u2019s \u201cJungleland\u201d track which closes out the \u201cBorn to Run\u201d album.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She also sang on two Springsteen tracks \u2014 \u201cThe Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle,\u201d and 4<sup>th<\/sup> of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)\u201d \u2014 according to Variety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Springsteen Center issued a statement following her death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cSuki Lahav, the Israeli-born musician, lyricist, and poet who briefly joined the E Street Band in the mid-1970s, has passed away at the age of 74,\u201d it read. \u201cA violinist on Born to Run \u2014 most notably heard on \u2018Jungeland\u2019 \u2014 she contributed to the early sound of Bruce Springsteen\u2019s breakthrough era. Lahav went on to become a major figure in Israeli music and literature, leaving behind a lasting legacy as both a songwriter and a poet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fans were quick to send condolences and love.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWe shall always cherish those moments on the recordings,\u201d one person replied.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cMay she rock in peace,\u201d another wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cAnd so fantastic in New York\u2019s city serenade!!!\u201d another wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cHer part in Jungeland is epic,\u201d another replied.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There were plenty more comments like that and you can see them all here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Variety reported that Lahav played the violin for Springsteen in 38 concerts prior to \u201cBorn to Run\u201d being released. The outlet said she is also known for contributing to a cover of Bob Dylan\u2019s \u201cI Want You\u201d that was popular for decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/entertainment\/2026\/04\/iconic-rock-bands-ex-member-known-for-playing-with-bruce-springsteen-dead-at-74.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:lehighvalleylive.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;lehighvalleylive.com&quot;}\" class=\"link \">lehighvalleylive.com<\/a>. Add <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:lehighvalleylive.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;lehighvalleylive.com&quot;}\" class=\"link \">lehighvalleylive.com<\/a> as a Preferred Source by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=lehighvalleylive.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:clicking here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;clicking here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tzruya \u201cSuki\u201d Lahav, a member of the E Street Band in the mid-1970s, has died. She was 74. Her son, Yonatan Lahav, said in a Facebook post that she had been battling cancer. Variety reported that it was Lahav\u2019s violin that can be heard on Bruce Springsteen\u2019s \u201cJungleland\u201d track which closes out the \u201cBorn to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2359486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[28851,458155,458154],"class_list":["post-2359485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-bruce-springsteen","tag-suki-lahav","tag-yonatan-lahav"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Iconic-rock-bands-ex-member-known-for-playing-with-Bruce-Springsteen.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2359485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2359487,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359485\/revisions\/2359487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2359486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2359485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2359485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2359485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}