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Sam Glaser entered the Jewish music field in 1991 with albums embraced by the full spectrum of the Jewish world. As one of the first full-time traveling Jewish performers, he paved the way for other artists on a circuit of North American Jewish institutions. He produces and arranges his own recordings and those of other artists.
An early influence on Orthodox pop was the 1971 album Or Chodosh, the debut of an eponymous group created by Sh'or Yoshuv roommates Rabbi Shmuel Brazil, who would later create the group Regesh, and Yossi Toiv, later known as Country Yossi; the group performed at Brooklyn College with David Werdyger's son, the young Mordechai Ben David, opening for them.
Ari Goldwag (born 1979) is an American Orthodox Jewish singer, songwriter, composer, and producer of contemporary Jewish religious music, as well as an author and teacher living in Ramat Beit Shemesh, Israel. He was a soloist for the Miami Boys Choir at age 10 and starred on five albums and three videos before his voice changed at age 14. He ...
Jewish music is the music and melodies of the Jewish people. There exist both traditions of religious music, as sung at the synagogue and in domestic prayers, and of secular music, such as klezmer .
"Hevenu shalom aleichem" (Hebrew: הבאנו שלום עליכם "We brought peace upon you" [1]) is a Hebrew-language folk song based on the greeting Shalom aleichem.While perceived to be an Israeli folk song, the melody of "Hevenu shalom aleichem" pre-dates the current state of Israel and is of Hasidic origin.
Religious Jewish Music in the 20th century has spanned the gamut from Shlomo Carlebach's nigunim to Debbie Friedman's Jewish feminist folk, to the many sounds of Daniel Ben Shalom. Velvel Pasternak has spent much of the late 20th century acting as a preservationist and committing what had been a strongly oral tradition to paper.
Yossi Green (born 1955) [1] [2] is a Hasidic Jewish composer of contemporary Jewish religious music.As of 2013 he had written more than 700 melodies [3] in the genres of pop music, classical music, liturgical music, Hasidic music, and show tunes.
John Zorn's record label, Tzadik, features a "Radical Jewish Culture" series that focuses on exploring what contemporary Jewish music is and what it offers to contemporary Jewish culture. Periodically Jewish music jumps into mainstream consciousness, Matisyahu (musician) being the most recent example.