Apr 12, 2009 12:53 AM GMT
If you pronounce it "Modest Yaho" you are close enough.
Mathew Miller was born in 1979 and grew up in suburban Philly as a Reconstructionist Jew, but at the age of 16 he began a transformation that lead to him switching to Hasidim. For an understanding of the differance, I consider myself Reconstructionist, while some of the so called "Black Hats" would be Hasidic. The Hasidic movement is very in tune with using music as a means of spreading joy. He had always had a love of music as many suburban Americans do. He began to practice with with friends, took on a stage name, and in 2000 he was discovered. This is what the world received.
Eric Clapton and the Police could have received the same introduction, with the minor change that I would be referring to Britain, instead of America- which isn't a big swap in the greater scheme of things. For some reason the combination of a full beard and payot with reggae seems like it should be a Mel Brooks skit that occurs in the middle of the History of the World Part 1. Perhaps it is because people are acutely aware of the historic tensions between Jews and Blacks within the New York City school system, even if they don't know that particular event was the one that kicked off those tensions. Instead it is a real manifestation of not judging a book by its cover and that mutual understanding is only as far away as a few lyrics and a good beat.
Here are a few more songs for your listening pleasure.
The best ones are disabled from embedding... watch them anyway.
/Before a flame war ensues, I would like to ban any talking about The Conflict.
Mathew Miller was born in 1979 and grew up in suburban Philly as a Reconstructionist Jew, but at the age of 16 he began a transformation that lead to him switching to Hasidim. For an understanding of the differance, I consider myself Reconstructionist, while some of the so called "Black Hats" would be Hasidic. The Hasidic movement is very in tune with using music as a means of spreading joy. He had always had a love of music as many suburban Americans do. He began to practice with with friends, took on a stage name, and in 2000 he was discovered. This is what the world received.
Eric Clapton and the Police could have received the same introduction, with the minor change that I would be referring to Britain, instead of America- which isn't a big swap in the greater scheme of things. For some reason the combination of a full beard and payot with reggae seems like it should be a Mel Brooks skit that occurs in the middle of the History of the World Part 1. Perhaps it is because people are acutely aware of the historic tensions between Jews and Blacks within the New York City school system, even if they don't know that particular event was the one that kicked off those tensions. Instead it is a real manifestation of not judging a book by its cover and that mutual understanding is only as far away as a few lyrics and a good beat.
Here are a few more songs for your listening pleasure.
The best ones are disabled from embedding... watch them anyway.
/Before a flame war ensues, I would like to ban any talking about The Conflict.
