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Doja Cat attends the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards, broadcast on Sunday, August 30, 2020. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for RCA via JTA)
September 1, 2020, 11:15 am
Jewish singer Doja Cat wins MTV best new artist award
Star urges fans to ‘stay safe’ and thanks her mother in acceptance speech during online broadcast
By Josefin Dolsten
Sasha Lurje, left, leads the Yiddish rock band Forshpil. (Marlene Karpischek via JTA)
August 31, 2020, 8:13 am
Yiddish psychedelic rock band Forshpil brings electric guitar to the shtetl
As Latvian band releases second album, front-woman Sasha Lurje speaks about its inspirations, transition from klezmer, and its new album’s ‘dark love stories’
By Joe Baur
Peter Green in 1987, with famous his talons (Photo: Trinity Mirror / Mirrorpix / Alamy)
August 22, 2020, 1:33 pm
The last blues of Peter Green
On December 25, 1980, the Fleetwood Mac founder, who passed away last month, walked into a studio in Tel Aviv and left behind a rare recording of bewitching sadness
By Amir Ben-David
Art Garfunkel and Sandy Greenberg in the 1970s. (Courtesy of Greenberg/ via JTA)
August 8, 2020, 5:06 am
‘Hello Darkness…’: A blind man’s lifelong friendship with Art Garfunkel
In new memoir, Sandy Greenberg tells how the future music icon read to him when he lost his sight, and the vow the duo took to always be there for each other
By David Rullo
Yiddish song 'Eli Eli' first became popular in the 1920s. (Design by Arielle Kaplan/ JTA)
June 19, 2020, 10:15 pm
How this iconic Yiddish song became an anthem for Black Americans
Popularized in 1920s, the mournful ‘Eli, Eli’ is an expression of faith in trying circumstances — and was embraced by Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, Paul Robeson, Johnny Mathis
By Arielle Kaplan
A scene from 'Shiva Baby' (Maria Rusche/ via JTA)
June 8, 2020, 6:04 pm
The coronavirus didn’t just upend Broadway — it put indie projects in limbo
Films, music, and shows by up and coming artists aren’t getting the sort of exposure that can launch careers, as festivals are canceled with no end in sight
By Curt Schleier
Israeli singer and songwriter Riff Cohen. (CC-SA-3.0/ Yanai Yechiel)
June 7, 2020, 4:31 am
Locked down? Open up to… eclectic singer-songwriter Riff Cohen
With North African heritage and a Tel Aviv upbringing, this vocalist doesn’t follow the typical female popstar formula. Check out her groovy joie de vivre
By Joy Bernard
Geddy Lee of Rush performs during the final show of the R40 Tour at The Forum on Saturday, August 1, 2015, in Los Angeles. (Rich Fury/Invision/AP)
May 23, 2020, 4:57 pm
Locked down? Open up to… Rush’s Jewish frontman Geddy Lee
The cerebral prog-rock group’s singer and bass player has long been a favorite for the nerdier-than-average fanbase — and penned a song for his Holocaust survivor parents, to boot
By Jordan Hoffman
Shulem Lemmer is a pop star in his community -- and still a cantor, too. (Meredith Truax/ via JTA)
April 30, 2020, 4:17 am
Shulem Lemmer on being the 1st artist raised Hasidic to sign a major record deal
Still working as a cantor, the Brooklyn-born musician has dropped his most recent album and completed a stadium tour that’s breaking him out into mainstream stardom
By Curt Schleier
Bette Midler presents the late Laura Nyro for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Saturday, April 14, 2012, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
April 26, 2020, 1:56 am
Locked down? Open up to… cross-genre singer Laura Nyro
Beloved by musicians and with not enough fame of her own, this sleeper was known for penning hits for Streisand and others — but her own performances are exquisite
By Jordan Hoffman
David Berman performs with the Silver Jews in 2006. (Yani Yordanova/Redferns/Getty Images via JTA)
April 22, 2020, 4:36 pm
Locked down? Open up to… the Silver Jews
David Berman’s vivid, painfully beautiful lyrics and mellow tunes focus on loneliness and alienation — themes we can all relate to in the age of the coronavirus
By Judah Ari Gross
Bob Dylan accepts the 2015 MusiCares Person of the Year award at a ceremony in Los Angeles, February 6, 2015. (Vince Bucci/Invision/AP)
April 18, 2020, 4:55 pm
In new tune, Dylan likens himself to Edgar Allan Poe, Anne Frank
His second release in a month, ‘I Contain Multitudes’ is a rumination on singer’s multifaceted personality
By AFP
American saxophonist Lee Konitz plays his instrument during the XXXIth International Jazz Festival in Debrecen,Hungary, June 29, 2002 (AP Photo/MTI/Tibor Olah)
April 18, 2020, 7:37 am
Trailblazing jazz saxophonist Lee Konitz dies at 92
Jewish musician best known for his work with Miles Davies dies of coronavirus-related pneumonia
By AFP
A scene from the London production of 'The Prince of Egypt' (Tristram Kenton/ via JTA)
April 17, 2020, 2:57 am
‘Prince of Egypt,’ ‘Wicked’ composer says inspired fans are his greatest reward
Discussing the recent stage adaptation of the Disney Exodus classic, his career and Jewish roots, Stephen Schwartz says he ‘didn’t really see it’ when Spielberg first tapped him
By Steve North
Graham Gouldman: 'I had a gift, I had encouragement and a guitar.' (Photo: Courtesy)
April 15, 2020, 9:32 am
One of classic pop’s greatest hit-writers is back on track after COVID-19 bout
Down-to-earth Graham Gouldman penned chart-toppers by the Hollies, the Yardbirds and his own 10cc. Now he’s recovered from the virus, the music keeps flowing
By Shaul Adar
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