Intro Film to Alex Clare

[Music] Got to dig deep cuz your mind is screams and I can't see. Can I [Music] see? Open your mouth. I can read your mind. [Music] I grew up in a very very secular family and I grew up in southeast London. famous for David Bowie and Peter Frampton and the Billy Idol. I didn't really have a sense of being Jewish. I didn't think those we were any different to anybody else until I was at what would be called junior high in America. I guess there was another kid in my class who was much more traditional than me. And I heard another kid in our school in our class say to me that he wasn't allowed to play or hang out with this other kid because he was Jewish and his father told him not to. And that really shook me up. When I was 7 years old, they were offering free music lessons at school and uh I got a drum kit and I started playing in different bands. When you're a musician as a kid, it's like a gateway to get into all the parties and all the bars when you really shouldn't be there. And at uh 17 years old, I decided to really take music seriously and follow it full-time. Sure enough, I started working for a small publishing company in London, working in studios, working my way up from firstly just making cups of tea, but I started creating my own type of music, which was blending soul music with electronic music. I was playing live almost every single night. And before too long, the recording industry in the UK started to notice me. Eventually, there was some sort of bulling war between Parlophone and Island Records, which is where I ended up signing and becoming a an island Records artist famous for signing You Two and Bob Marley and like various other big big musicians. [Music] You know, the real moment of sense of achievement was when I played La Palooa in Chicago. That feeling of seeing 30 to 100,000 people singing every word to every song back. um marks a real sense of achievement. It's the It's the dream. [Music] Today I live in Yeah. Yeah, I learned in Kabora in the mornings learning Gammor and in the afternoons I learn in in a learning ura. Fantastic. You know, the very fact that I had so much in the music industry means that I can sit and spend most of my day learning to I said when he says this, what does it mean? It means that everything else is a means to an end. For a Jew, the priority is shabas. It's cashless. To understand the braas, the benevolence and the goodness that comes from learning Tory and trying to build a meaningful relationship with our godish bar. It's infinite. [Music]