The “Piano Man” Billy Joel became a successful recording artist back in the 1970s — and he has continued enjoying an impressive music career ever since. The now 70 year old’s numerous hit songs include “Just the Way You Are,” “Vienna,” “Only the Good Die Young,” “She’s Always a Woman,” and “Scenes form an Italian…
Singer-songwriter and actor Adam Levine (Jewish father, non-Jewish mother; considers himself to be Jewish) is the frontman of the pop rock group Maroon 5. Until recently, the 40-year-old Levine was a long-time judge on the singing competition The Voice; he quit the show after appearing on it for 16 seasons. In 2013, Levine was named…
…an especially beautiful and significant rendition of the Jewish nation’s national anthem.
Olga Avigail Mieleszczuk — also known by the shortened name Olga Avigail — is a Polish-Israeli singer and accordionist. In addition, she conducts research on Ashkenazi-Jewish music that originated in her native country of Poland and its environs. Interestingly, Avigail was born a Polish Catholic but underwent an Orthodox conversion in Israel. Linked below…
The website funinjerusalem.com describes Israeli group singing sensation Koolulam this way: “‘Come and sing with strangers’ — that’s part of Koolulam’s mission of spreading joy through music and bringing together diverse groups within Israel.” The following is from the introduction to the video linked below, performed on the occasion of Israel’s 70th anniversary as a…
Klezmer is a style of traditional Jewish music that developed in the Ashkenzi communities of Eastern Europe. European influences on klezmer included music from Romania, Greece, Ukraine, Poland, Hungary (Romani) and Turkey. Brought to American by Yiddish-speaking immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the musical style has been influenced by American jazz.…
From 2011 to 2016, two Hasidic women in Brooklyn, New York — Perl Wolf and Dalia Shusterman (pictured above, from left to right) — became religious, cultural and musical trailblazers in their community by creating and performing in an all-female, all ultra-Orthodox alternative/indie rock band called Bulletproof Stockings. In light of religious prohibitions about women…
“Golden Boy,” performed by popular French-Israeli singer Nadav Guadj, was the country’s entry in the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest. It was the first Israeli entry in that international competitition to be sung entirely in English. Although the song made it through several rounds into the grand final, it wound up finishing in 9th place in…
Saxophonist Kenny G (Kenneth Bruce Gorelick), 61, is the world’s best-selling instrumental…
Based at New York’s Yeshiva University (whose athletic teams are named the Maccabees)…
To learn about these and many more AmazingJews, watch a compilation put together by JewOfTheWeek.net in 2015 and posted on YouTube.