Archive for Category: "Interviews"
Shimon’s Interview with Benny Friedman: “Fill the World with Light”
It’s been two years since Benny Friedman released Kol Haneshama Sheli, the hit album which featured “Toda”, “Bum Bum”, and several other hits. His new album, Fill the World with Light, might be his best effort to date. Yes, you heard that right. Benny’s new album may actually be better than Yesh Tikvah. I would have [&hellip
Thoughts on the Making of Fill the World with Light
By Sruly Meyer – Producer of Benny Friedman’s new CD, “Fill The World With Light. I just wanted to go through the album, and let the listener hear my own thoughts, from behind the scenes. I love this album so much, and I wanted to share some of that with you. I’ve been involved in different [&hellip
Shirei Pinchas Video Interview
R’ Pinchas Wolf, set to release his first album of his own composed songs, sat down for an interview. Here are the first four parts of a six part set. Each video is a few minutes, and you get to know more about this young, 69 year old “new” composer. This will be his first [&hellip
Benny Friedman Carpool Karaoke with Meir Kay
Get to know the man behind Yesh Tikvah, Toda, and countless of hits. Ride along with Benny Friedman in my second installment of Carpool Karaoke.  
Shirei Pinchas: A Lifetime of Composing – Video Interview Series
Video by Moishy Lew. You are invited to get to know R’ Pinchas Wolf. Pinchas is a composer of Yiddishishe Niggunim, and is set to release his first album collection of his composed songs. This video is the first part of a six part interview we will release leading up to the album’s completion. The [&hellip
Behind Torah Treasures New DVD
Torah Treasures’ Chaim Hershkowitz tells about his latest project, a DVD of Niggunim for children starring popular Jewish music stars. Catching up with Torah Treasure’s Chaim Hershkowitz: It’s been a few months since Torah Treasure released a DVD. However producer Chaim Hershkowitz is hard at work developing a new video aimed at Chabad children of [&hellip
The Definitive Interview: Cantor Netanel Hershtik
Part 3 in a series. For Part 1 with Dovid Gabay, click here. For Part 2 with Eli Gerstner, click here. Cantor Netanel Hershtik is easily one of the most fascinating personalities in all of Jewish Music. He is a fourteenth-generation chazzan (how many people on this planet can say that they are the fourteenth-generation [&hellip
The Definitive Interview: Eli Gerstner on “A Time for Music 29”
A Time for Music. The words evoke a certain imagery—a top notch concert hall, a large orchestra, the biggest names in Jewish Music, and raising funds for the special children of the Camp HASC summer program. The list of great moments is almost as long as the Who’s Who list of headliners: MBD and Shlomo [&hellip
The Definitive Dovid Gabay Interview
Full disclosure: This article is not—I repeat, NOT—an objective review of Dovid Gabay’s newest album, Hakol Letova. That would be impossible for me, given that we were classmates for four years, in the yeshiva band together, and played multiple gigs together in each other’s communities over the years. And, as anyone who knows me will [&hellip
SPLASHNEWS-EXCLUSIVE!- Interview with Benny Friedman
@SPLASHNEWSUSA : LAKEWOOD, NJ- Just before the release of his brand new albm “Kol Haneshama Sheli”, JM superstar Benny Friedman made a surprise visit to Lakewood. Although there were wisps of rumors floating around the city, it wasn’t until a few hours before the event that it was made known- Benny Friedman together with producer [&hellip
Inspiring Voice reviews Meydad Tasa – Yehudi Benishmati
Wow! Meydad Tasa never ceases to amaze me. He sings with such pnimiyus and inspiration. His latest album is called Yehudi Benishmati. His albums are Sefardi style with Hebrew lyrics and not pesukim from Tanach. I am not fluent in speaking Hebrew, but he sings from the neshama [&hellip
The History of Uncle Moishy [Mishpacha Magzine]
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By Barbara Bensoussan, Mishpacha Magazine Sam and Rivka Tanenbaum, Holocaust survivors, knew some deeply dark times. Perhaps as compensation, Hashem gave them a son, Moishe, whose self-avowed goal is to bring “smiles, laugher, and lightheartedness, while perpetuating our precious Jewish values.” He was gifted with a natural stage presence and ease with performing. “When I walk out onstage,” [&hellip
8th Day: Behind the Lyrics
How does the Chassidic Rebbe, Reb Zusha of Anipoli, inspire non-Jewish record engineers to give it all they got? What do today’s youth have in common with the Cantonist degree in the times of Tsarist Russia? What song is going to be sung when Moshiach comes? These are some of the questions 8th Day co-founders, [&hellip
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