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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.
Following the release of his debut, "You Are Not Alone", he signed to Create Music Group. The single managed to reach charts in five different countries, including becoming a Billboard certified single in the US. Sheradsky is a Hasidic Jew and is one of four Orthodox Jews in history to have signed to a leading international music label. [2] [3 ...
Under the stage name D. Black, he released the albums The Cause & Effect (2006) and Ali'yah (2009) and was featured on producer Jake One's debut album White Van Music (2008). He retired in 2011 to focus on his conversion to Orthodox Judaism, but soon returned under his new legal name Nissim Black [a] and began focusing on Jewish hip hop.
The Jewish label JDub Records, founded in 2002, was one of the first to promote explicitly Jewish rap artists, with its roster including Sagol 59, Canadian klezmer-rapper Socalled, the Ethiopian-Israeli duo Axum, and the Middle Eastern-inflected group Balkan Beat Box, whose song "Hermetico" was later sampled for the international hit "Talk Dirty" by Jason Derulo and 2 Chainz.
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]
Six13 is a New York–based Jewish all-male a cappella singing group. Formed in 2003, the six-voice group is known for parodying contemporary pop songs by adding Jewish themes and lyrics. It also sings cover versions of pop hits and Yiddish and Israeli classics, and produces original compositions based on traditional Jewish prayers.
The 15-year-old performance of the song "Yerushalayim" (which translates to "Jerusalem of Gold") had been viewed on TikTok more than 7 million times.
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.