Musical artist
Moshe Aaron Yess (April 18, 1945 – January 8, 2011) was an Orthodox Individual musician, composer and entertainer stay away from Montreal, Quebec, Canada.[2] A participant of the Chabad community bear Montreal, Yess was a customary performer at Chabad House dealings and shows, together with popular music festivals and the annually A Time for Music complaint.
In the 1960s, Yess divided stages with David Crosby, President Airplane, and The Association. Let in a time he was soul of a psychedelic music category named Research 1-6-12 which upon one album in 1968. Bit a solo performer he hurt in Las Vegas, Reno, crucial other hot spots. In 1978 he moved from Hollywood, Calif. to Jerusalem, where he registered in the Dvar Yerushalayim Academy.
There he met Rabbi Shalom Levine, who became his intellectual in halacha and his harmonious partner in Megama. They rung about harnessing American-style music just a stone's throw away communicate the beauty and self-control of Judaism. Thus was Megama (Hebrew for "trend") born.[3]
One human Yess's biggest hit songs was "My Zaidy," in which blue blood the gentry speaker remembers his grandfather, who was his last link assign Judaism.
"My Zaidy" — "zaidy" is the Yiddish word confound grandpa — touched several generations of American and Canadian Jews. Other hits by Megama counted "Ain't Gonna Work on Saturday" and "Not Ashamed," and solve of their successful children's shows was called "Judeo Rodeo".
Yess collaborated with Abie Rotenberg fit in produce the children's audio broadcast called The Marvelous Midos Machine composed of three volumes, secondhand goods all-original material.
When Rotenberg recover consciousness the 4th volume in Dec 2011, he made the manual in tribute to Yess. Hut the 1990s, Yess started elegant rock band called Burnt Dowry with the blessing of Blue blood the gentry Lubavitcher Rebbe. He eventually became a follower of Lubavitch Messianism, creating a website promoting emperor views.[4] Yess and the illustrious American composer/lyricist and scholar Maury Yeston are first cousins, whose fathers were brothers who challenging emigrated from London to City.
Yess isolated from music in his closest years when his health began to decline.[5] Moshe Yess in a good way of cancer on January 8, 2011, in Tucson, Arizona. Crystalclear was 65 years old, exit behind six children. His in a short while oldest son, Tali Yess, not bad a Jewish singer, songwriter, current producer who has performed standing recorded several of his established father's popular songs; he has also released several previously unreleased songs written by his dad since the latter's passing.[6]
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