Kahan sings mainly in Yiddish, but has also recorded and performed in Ladino, Hebrew and a mix of Yiddish with Polish, Russian, Norwegian, Hungarian, German and English [REF].
Kahan started her career acting in 1981 at the Habima theatre in Tel Aviv and at the Nationaltheatret in Norway, performing for the first time as a singer in Oslo, for a play in Yiddish, the cabaret show Over Byen, in 1983 [REF].