Daphna was born in Germany in 1975 and raised in New York City, to which she moved at age 3 with her parents, Jewish-Israeli-German singer-mother Elisa Gabbai and her Jewish-Yugoslavian-German father, who is credited with having discovered the band Scorpions.
There a music agent from Berlin heard her one night, with whom she signed a contract.
ELISA | Elisa | Elisa (Italian singer) | Elisa Carrió | Villa Elisa, Paraguay | Villa Elisa | Elisa Tovati | Elisa Montés | Villa Elisa, Entre Ríos | María Elisa Díaz de Mendibil | Gillian Elisa | Elisa von der Recke | Elisa Roberts | Elisa (left) on cover of ''TeenFaces'' (October 2000 | ELISA#"Indirect"_ELISA | Elisa Gabbai | Elisa Fleischmann | Elisa di Rivombrosa | Elisa Caroline Bommer | Elisa Bonaparte |