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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.
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]
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.
His introduction to the Jewish music scene precipitated many simcha and concert appearances. [7] He released his second solo album, Acheinu, in 1998, [10] and his third solo album, K'ish Echod B'Lev Echad, in 2001. [7] Dachs assembled the Shloime Dachs Orchestra in 2003.
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.
Jewish rock is a form of contemporary Jewish religious music that is influenced by various forms of secular rock music.Pioneered by contemporary folk artists like Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach and the Diaspora Yeshiva Band, the genre gained popularity in the 1990s and 2000s with bands like Soulfarm, Blue Fringe, and Moshav Band that appealed to teens and college students, while artists like Matisyahu ...
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]
Blue Fringe's music incorporated elements of pop, rock, funk, R&B, and blue-eyed soul. [9] [10] The band's influences included Jewish artists like Diaspora Yeshiva Band, Moshav Band, Soulfarm, and Reva L'Sheva, as well as secular artists like The Beatles, Coldplay, John Mayer, Counting Crows, Victor Wooten, Elliott Smith, and Oasis.