Stardust in Seagate | Mishpacha

it's clear to anybody who sees this farm shop in this house that you're you're not just finding cute lyrics on google and knocking out songs that you're living with these ideas and these concepts this piano this very piano [Music] any aspiring singer who wants to be anything comes here the among the one of the first steps okay she's one of our my alumni in new york school of jewish song conducted by nigel saleh [Music] you know that he would change the world he could change the world there's no question about it somebody's down the block a couple of houses down i don't get to see him very often but when i see him i can i know you know he's got such such kind charisma hello hi i'll see [Music] essentially there's two singers i've anfield who have been carrying us for so 40 years plus well they kind of music industry and you've been so much a part of them but i don't know if people realize how many singers you've put on the map well i was actually you mean this house isn't allowed us to go in their direction and like you said all those people turning off on crops the avenue and having to enter the code to get into the sunny with daddy [Music] let's talk about daddy song first so you you gave him raza which became such an epic piece did you know that that was for him yes yeah absolutely because a certain color that he has in his voice charisma in his voice [Music] he says [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] the core [Music] faith is [Applause] [Music] is [Music] you don't hear daddy in there you had fun with daddy you enjoyed working with him clearly clearly you enjoyed working with that oh he was he had an energy that you liked he was funny he was self-denigrating he didn't take himself seriously [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] that speaks to people and speaks to him so you know so at the time yoki was his uh you know and i remember the time that um he had done a complete album and there was still missing he was still missing one song and he called me up on the telephone at the time and i hadn't met i didn't i had not met trekkie at the time yet and i did not the truth is i didn't work with him enough i still didn't work with him enough i still i still have to because he's one of the real superstars that really really can i know he broke through when he started out it was like and he just broke through and he also keeps tagging he works hard he's very straight yeah he's incredible incredible stark he's getting uh stronger all the time anyway the casino are starting to pick him up to pick him up now that's like a whole new uh whole novelt for him and um so he calls me up says maybe you have a personal idea and the way he defined the song he wanted it to be the specific beats per minute because he was he was a the old the first guy in that world who was an orchestra leader he knew what makes people dance he knew the rhythms so at the time again we learned this [Music] show [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] who brought a whole different type of entertainment to the firmworld so different so forget out of the box there's no more box and you were able to come up with a to hit him you know like when you're trying to catch a taxi and you you're the taxi driver thinks you're in already and you're driving but you were able to just with with uh with gelt you gave him again his first and by the way that's what it was the name of the song was gelt i had no idea what the words were going to be so it's all going to be he wanted a song that stressed guilty [Music] is [Music] so [Music] again with you and again these are songs that they're still singing at concerts yes was the first of a whole nude a whole new bunch of uh like i was you could say it was like the third the third uh generation of yeah and he used to but what happened is that he had a manager his name was gershi moskowitz who is also another full of energy he comes in and he's like hurricanes so talented also yeah yeah so he brought he he always so he used to tell me look by the way i want you to write a song for slime was the youngest from the people that i had started working with at the time and i did i remember that um he told me he's taking slimey to the airport he's passing by on the belt parkway can he get off at crops the avenue he wants to bring in that famous crop and he brought him over here we're going to make a petition that they should put extra t our secret there's a lot of other great stuff here pull off here and become a star anyway and and um so he brought him here and he's i sat with him for two three hours i couldn't connect to the live and he was this cute guy he was dancing all that by himself and he was on the steps he was dancing down the steps and he was uh and and i kept looking at girl she's like come on we gotta end this evening you know and he kept saying like keep trying so anyway we finally sat him down and um and i asked him if he could tell me a little bit about something about his personal life and something i figured maybe from a personal life perspective and he explained to me that he had had a child that was at birth something happened and the child was was hurt as a result of it and um so i said that what's your relationship to the child he says that he puts her to sleep every night her name is malcolm and uh that he sings are a little lullaby says and this is this is my only cashier with her because um her eyesight is very poor and we just feel this is her this is the kesha we have here [Music] oh [Music] then she falls asleep i i understood how that was i was getting tired myself so jose asks me shlomi do you give me permission to take the song and continue the song and i told him this would be our biggest matona and for a half hour he's sitting on the piano strolling up and down and he's unbelievable he he jumps up after a half an hour and he says yes and he says i've got it and he says hashem and mama she starts and the song the malka song just became complete [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] yatishmai that i told you about that happens everyone's another open one from some place so he says [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] that was my beginning connection maybe this is the most ambitious thing you did you took a person who rose to the heights of classic hazardous in a way we haven't seen since rosenblatt probably and put him on your album and introduced him to a new genre he pushed health got into somewhere he'd never gone you convinced him you persuaded him he took work well that would that was that was a very interesting interesting story because you know he's it's great cousin that he is you know like uh just you know in hebrew there's a word called otsma which is which is power you know there are certain people that that overwhelm you with with hearts and then there are people that just overwhelm you they just overwhelm you so i remember i heard him in israel i heard him say um he just and um i i spoke to him at the time and i asked him what he would he considered a song that i would write for him and he said sure he would consider it but his island was not for it this one wanted to remain pure house and they were worried that the ghaznam are getting you know so um so hashem [Music] is [Music] i [Music] is [Music] sometimes it's just about doing what you always did and doing it right people who associated you with singers you had started out of the world of choirs in your school yeah and then you the snackers came along at a different stage in your career when you weren't with the choirs and somehow you were able to reach in and give them that song well it was it was made them yeah well it was more than that it was becoming aware that that we had all started you know it's so funny you know people i have these new singers commented and they and i give them a song usually and they start and some of them are pretty good and and i began to notice that some of the critique from the 40 50 years old you know they have the right to critique they've been listening to music for 40 years already yeah but it's not a real excuse me it's not everywhere i remember singing for 40 years already he worked he came he when you're listening to a ramos singer song you're listening to somebody or mata you're listening to somebody who who worked out every nuance here you have a young kid and he's beginning to understand he's finding his voice he's finding his mushroom what do you want so i realized that the way we got to avremol and mata and the great singers of our generation is we started when we were kids and we listened to kids choirs and then we had the groups we grew up with them so we grew up with them slowly as they were moving you know i i wrote a little more advanced stuff ramble sang a little more advanced harmonies became better the arrangers got more and more intimidated they went to back to school so to speak to you know how we're going to deal with this you know suddenly we got to a cliff and then people became in their 40s and they have to marry off kids and suddenly they're not buying and now you have little guys starting again and they're starting from abram's level how could you start from david's level right so i figured if we could start again and that's it and that's but let's start with the words what made you reach for these words histopsy emotional binding so to me a kid saying the word moisha rabbini is like because he doesn't say that it's going back to the heider yeah right [Music] [Applause] [Music] me [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] me what a man what a choir [Music] [Applause] me [Music] is [Music] is [Music] which before there was the saturn rav i guess there was maestro vader also before the venue was co-opted and and you gave over that and and again it just resonated across four albums and uh but you invented or i shouldn't say invented but you put you this knackers on the map with that you gave them an identity as those kids that purity the video of the conference crime with this cups here and of course yeah and uh was the rally song for gimbal i know they took it as their election jingle right right long way from south america not speak to me about it shaka [Music] music is forever that this is the this is the stamp that a person makes and these things last and you have so much forever so much eternity box from your songs that go on if we're wrapping up this conversation what would you look at as a that that created something you tap into things that will last mr michelle's going to be here soon we'll be singing your songs but which song do you just know year after year week after season after season you know that this song is always going to give you a lift [Music] obviously [Music] the oculus of claudia's soil is the ultimate idea obviously for we all darven for it we all work on it we all understand all of us understand clearly that if we ever managed it if we would manage this real artist that we wouldn't we're not that every year would count and every head would look up to every other yid and so and everybody would know that we're all part of this sheer climate then we we know that this is the ultimate ultimate goal so there's this one song for everyone [Music] [Applause] [Music] we need just [Applause] [Music] we have each other [Music] absolutely nothing can be right [Music] nothing can divide us forever i think that about sums it up we have each other nothing can divide us absolutely nothing can divide us positively nothing can divide us for we are forever [Music]