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The Maccabeats released their first album, Voices from the Heights, in March 2010. This album, funded by a grant from the university, [6] sold about 5,000 copies. [2] In November 2010, they released "Candlelight", a Hanukkah-themed cover of Taio Cruz's "Dynamite" with a music video directed by Uri Westrich, a Yeshiva University graduate. [7]
"Candlelight" is a song by the band The Maccabeats that was released in November 2010. It achieved viral status. [1] [2] [3] The song is a transformation of Mike Tompkins's a cappella cover of the Taio Cruz song "Dynamite" to lyrics about the holiday of Hanukkah. The Maccabeats are an all-male Jewish a cappella student group that formed at ...
'Candlelight' by the Maccabeats. A re-imagination of Taio Cruz's hit "Dynamite," this song took off in 2010 like Santa's sleigh, if you'll forgive the theologically mixed metaphor. Suddenly, the ...
Tompkins' music video for Taio Cruz's "Dynamite" was itself parodied by The Maccabeats, a Jewish a cappella group from Yeshiva University, in their cover version of "Dynamite" called "Candlelight" (2010). [13] [14] The very first cover that Tompkins did was the song Party in the USA. [15]
The song is a cover parody of "Dynamite" by Taio Cruz, with lyrics retelling the Hanukkah story. It was released in late 2010 and quickly achieved viral status. [14] [15] [16] Since 2010, The Maccabeats have produced an annual Hanukkah music video. [17]
StandFour is an American a cappella group from New York City made up of four former members of Yeshiva University's all-male a cappella group The Maccabeats.Formed in November 2012, the group is composed of four graduates of the university: David Block, Noey Jacobson, Nachum Joel, and Immanuel Shalev. [1]
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The song became popular among Jewish communities in the world. In 2020, the Jewish A Capella group the Maccabeats released a cover for the song. [5] Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme featuring The Mike Curb Congregation also made a cover to the song.