Backstage at Kumzing Global 2025 — Exclusive Behind-the-Scenes with Jewish Music’s Biggest Stars

[Music] Hi, we're here in Elizabeth, New Jersey at the Ritz Theater for the Kumsing Global. We have the top-of-the-line Jewish music artists from all over the world, literally. And uh it's going to be a beautiful event. I'm very excited. Come, let's take a look. Yeah. [Music] with the MC's. Okay. Ellie, by the way. Yeah. Supposed to be channels 43 44. I don't see them. Ready? Yes. Hell yeah. We all [Music] And I'm doing London is done target like these by just performed um both by the money every night. Um per performances. Okay. [Music] Crazy not so bad, but you know, [Music] um maybe I can do this specific talent. I guess we are the same age probably. But officially apart from the song and apart from the zing this is for us to decide. Exactly. [Music] disgust. So 50%. Wow. Change. She could change the change. mention connected. It feels like emotional. It's it's it's [Music] different. Very nice. Special songs you're excited to perform for tonight. Um my favorite song on my album. This is a a song was fight. There's a long story behind the song album. I had to fight for it because um and I was attached to the name. It's a no no it's it's it's a it's a special song for me. Okay. So you you connect to it. It's like a meditation of some sorts. Yeah. Yeah. That is very special. And what is [Music] album could be a lot financial wise of course mention four exactly the service fee invest in [Music] in a pity move cost a albums yet anything special upcoming um music specific album uh kind of as a stage second dance call it album stage also became on stage album projects on the side very nice okay I'm excited with you guys performing and to see whatever thank you thank you so much and David. Wow. Wow. Excited. The energy performing New York. Okay. Very exciting. [Music] of common win. Okay. [Music] It's an album. This is [Music] song is a song like song. Next [Music] time unexpected challenge, but it's something famous. The challenges up and down fish up and down. up and [Music] down. [Music] Wow. Do anything. Anybody famous? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. [Music] Yeah. The next album is [Music] Right. See them. [Music] English. Well, excited to see what you guys think performing and we're looking forward. All right. Well, what is the most exciting thing that you the most exciting song that you're looking forward to performing tonight? Fire. Oh, the fire truck. The whole I maybe they're going to play the video if I snitch. But fire is my song. I'm looking forward to Yeah. You see, wasn't so hard to answer. It wasn't so hard to answer. No. Okay. I was hoping you're going to feed me some more. I could I could You want to hear all the all the songs? We're starting with Do you know my songs? I know your songs. It's okay if you don't. Some of them I know. We're starting with I'm excited for that. It's the first song. You know my I'm excited. You know, I'm excited for all of them. I'm excited for all of them. You know what? Fire is like the highlight, I guess. I I do notice that there are some songs. It's it's kumzit. But it's Yeah. So I told before y I told him we want to give the audience a break. They can't be singing all night. You know, they paid for tickets. They want to enjoy it too. So when they're going to take a break, we're going to sing. Okay. Let me quickly ask you simply because the podcast and and this is is this something that you would recommend people to go into? There's so many popping up. What do you What is my take on all the podcast? Yes, I want to know. Give me the juice. Well, it's hard to answer, but Kimu music is green. People are asking, "What are you saying to all these new songs and all these new singers?" So, I always say the more the better, right? Well, the market is anyways going to decide who they like. There's a lot of lawyers, there's a lot of doctors, there's a lot of singers, and there's a lot of podcasters. I I think if you if you try to bring to bring uh quality I'm bringing I'm trying to bring entertainment. So entertainment is easy but if you want to succeed in this I think you should bring something that the needs what does the need something that people should learn make a podcast from doctors speak doctor stuff. Make a podcast from lawyers courts. Make a podcast from savings finance economy. make a podcast from the if you bring content for the people that they can use and then the the podcast will speak for itself and people will tune into it. But I find that sometimes people just want to just sit there and listen to garbage, you know, that's entertaining sometimes. So they find the word garbage is garbage interesting. Not always am I in the mood for like a financial I didn't listen yet to the financial one, right? because I feel like it's going to be something that I need to listen focus on. He's my cousin by the way. Great job. Okay. I've been to him after TV. He's great. But um but I find sometimes I just want to sit around the cluts. But I I hear what you're saying. It's But this was also my thing. I also I don't like the focus. When I'm going to tune into a podcast, I want to enjoy it. Maybe some politics, maybe some Bitcoin. So that's why I I opened my podcast. It's just folks, some successful business people, some people in the entertainment. Uh they have stories and and the folks out there want to know their story. They want to know the story from so it's it's it's entertainment is what it is. And you're specifically targeting obviously crowd simply in Yiddish. In Yiddish Yiddish, maybe one day we'll do English in the future. Maybe a special podcast if we have somebody with like Mike Lawler or President Trump. Maybe one day. Of course. So we'll um we will do it in English, but in Yiddish, it just feels more natural to me. Is there is there a business aspect to it or that doesn't really come into this? So when I started it, I wasn't looking at it businesswise even though it did it cost a lot of money. You asked about the other podcast. From the microphone shel, we want to hear everything. for the audience. Anyway, um so what was I saying? Oh, so it cost a lot of money to start a podcast, right? You want to have a nice logo. You want to have a brand. You want to have some merchandise. So I for me, it was like maybe 20 $25,000 just to get into it and to have everything that I need. I didn't look at it as a business, but what I did realize is if we have if if there's an income, then then there's more motivation to work, right? I I did hear you say that. I wanted Yeah. So So the sponsorships and the money even though it's not being paid, but it's a way of showing support and it's a way for me to see that it's not costing me any money. At least I got to pay the rent for the studio and for the production fees. Um if I have the sponsorships, then it can it's you know, I don't make I don't lose. And it's nice. It's good for the brand. It's good for the community. It's good for everybody. But hopefully maybe one day I'll I'll build it up so good in Satana subscribers and we have a lot of listeners and it it's it's becoming a real part of of people tuning into it then obviously it might it might be a nice source of income but I didn't open it for them for them direction. So it's kind of like a hobby that you enjoy. So that's why you could continue it. Once you go for money you're going to lose your focus also. Yes. Yes. Some singers are painters and some singers are shash and some people some singers are artists I hear. Okay. Well, I'm so excited. Anything else that's coming out from any other music? Yes. Yes. Git. So, I'm working on another of my stage series. I have on stage, we have backstage, and now we're working on a third one. That's one thing. And then I'm working on a single, a music single co with a guy name. very excited for that song. I've been listening to a lot of songs the last few months and none of the songs did did to me what this song did to me. I listened to it once and it moved me but it wasn't like or it's a little bit more 2025. Um but so I didn't listen to it for like two three weeks and then I came back to it and again it did it it was o and then after a few times I said okay you know what my heart is this talks to my heart we're going to go for it. So I'm working with mig hopefully whenever it's going to be ready maybe for after one more quick question. Did you find that you lose your energy, you lose your your your you get what I'm saying? You lose your your humor. Did you find that or is that not something that Well, call. Thank you. I can still lose 100 lb before it's going to start tapping into the humor and the jolliness. You know, I was 400 lb. I got it down to 250, 240, 250, 260. I don't know. You tell me. Am I still jolly? How many interviews? Okay. He said he spoke on a podcast and he explained it 100%. It's not a problem. Next, but that's it. You are the energy that you have is more than I have seen tonight. Thank you so much. Okay, we're here with with Simha Liner at the at the Kuming Global. Sima, you are the surprise guest. I am. I was very shocked to see cuz it's it's it's like they upgraded like crazy. What's a surprise that fits right in, right? Exactly. We want everyone to be surprised. There you go. Half the people go, "Who is this? That's mine with me also. We're going to really surprise them, you know." Do you feel overwhelmed? It's mostly the sha singers and you're the only listener. Uh so I I think you'd be a little bit surprised if you know a little bit about my uh my childhood, but uh let's just say I fit right in. I'm I'm just joking. All right. What is one special song that you were looking forward to to singing tonight? So tonight is the first time that I'm singing my new song, Kenya, at a concert. We've done it a million times since it came out at weddings, but tonight is the first stage. That's you know, it only came out a few weeks ago. So, uh, very excited to, uh, connect with people on a new song. It's always, it's always a fun thing to do. Is there any singer or or star that you've looked up to as you were growing up and becoming a singer yourself? Oh, so many singers. Uh, I grew up listening to obviously A Freed, who didn't grow up listening to A Freed. We had, as I was getting a little bit older, Jakob Schwaki came onto the scene. I love Isaac. I used to listen to a lot of Isaac songs growing up. the Cam Shelva albums who can uh pass over AB Rottenberg H you know and Journeys so I'm a product of the uh of the 1990s Jewish music scene I here is there any what's the like a big difference that you see in the crowd when you go to a wedding versus when you go to a concert is there a big difference in the environment and everything well you know it's like a when I was learning how to be a my rabbi told me he said difference between a and a Right? Is someone that davs at you and is someone that dins with you. Right? So at a you're sort of the fill. You're ding with people. You're dancing with people, stuff like that. At a concert usually you're singing at them. I think it's a little bit different. Right. I think you're encouraged to uh sing together. So it's like a you know we're going to call it a That is pretty cool. Um All right. Is there is there any projects that you're working on? Any new stuff coming up from Soler? There's always new stuff in the works. We have a new album in the works. We have a uh compilation album in the works. There's always a million things going on. And you know, when when it's ready, it'll it'll be released. But uh there's no rush today because uh you can press release on your phone and it's uh all over the world. So applies here too. Thank you so much. We're looking forward to seeing you perform and to hear what more comes from you. Enjoy. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Second record. Okay. Well, the energy is going crazy. Tell me something because I know it was it was something different. Wow. Okay. I'm kidding. Um, we're going to run it by you. I got you, brother. No, for real. So, enjoy food. So from the beginning the bar was set so high fully fully loaded. Feel good. Connect specific including myself. Okay. sing ask you a different question in general recently popular it's a new it's very it's new and it's amazing does did it affect you personal life like to become popular everyone was on a friend canon is is it is it a struggle or it's it's actually kind of fun I got a certain and no problems. But whatever [Music] But I'm so happy anytime. I love it. Like again kind of music can like meditate and see in a weird way. Is that something that you feel like you kind of like you go out there? So meditation is usually uh [Music] right. Okay, no problem. Basically, I want to go home. I want to go home. Meditation song. Meditation song. feel similarities to Lipa like in a sense. So definitely nephew and for uh no release influenced by you mind expensive. I'm just kidding. Wow. Very nice. Well, what's what else? Are you working on something else? something that's upcoming just saying upcoming habit of music whatever old songs next to The fans the fans are going crazy. Yeah, definitely. And um in the next album, you definitely shouldn't stop. It's amazing. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. So much. My mama thinks of the crowd joy.