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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.
The video, a parody of Mike Tompkins' a cappella music video for "Dynamite", [1] [8] was intended for the group's target audience in the New York Orthodox Jewish community [3] [7] but it quickly went viral, being viewed more than 2 million times in ten days. [2] [4] As of December 2018, it had logged more than 14 million views. [9]
The music video garnered hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube. In addition, a compilation album was released that included the choir's nostalgic songs related to Torah study, the title song and the solo song "Modim" which is performed in a duet between the choir's soloist David Perlman and Yerachmiel Begun.
In 2019, Ribo won first place for the Most Views On YouTube In 2019 by an Orthodox Jewish Artist. He won the award by a high margin for the second year in a row. Ribo's official YouTube channel had 224 million views and 212,000 subscribers. This is the second year in the row that Ribo doubled the number of views on his channel within a year. [29]
In recent years, the time lag in style between the broad music world and its adoption by the Jewish music world had been decreasing. Many groups and singers have released albums with noticeable influences from contemporary pop, rock music, etc. This is partly a result of a new wave of young Jewish musicians arriving out of yeshivas and ...
Ohad Moskowitz (born September 2, 1974), [1] known professionally as Ohad, is a Belgian-born Israeli Orthodox Jewish vocalist who is one of the superstars of the contemporary Jewish religious music scene. He rose to international stardom in 2003 with his first solo album, Vearastich, produced by Yossi Green.
Mordechai Werdyger (born April 16, 1951) is an American Israeli Chasidic Jewish singer and songwriter who is popular in the Orthodox Jewish community. He is the son of cantor David Werdyger and uses the stage name Mordechai Ben David (Hebrew: מרדכי בן דוד, romanized: Mordocháy Ben-Davíd, lit.
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. His songs have appeared on more than 120 albums and CDs.