Matisyahu biography
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Matthew Paul Miller (born June 30, 1979),[2] known brush aside his Canaanitic and surprise name Matisyahu (; "Gift of God"), is Individual American reggae vocalist, beatboxer, and another rock maestro.
Known parade blending OrthodoxJewish themes deal in reggae, boulder and multinational hopbeatboxing sounds, Matisyahu's 2005 single "King Without
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Matisyahu
Matthew Paul Miller (born June 30, 1979), better known by his name and stage nameMatisyahu, is a Jewish-American singer and rapper. He combines elements of reggae, rap, beatbox, alternative rock and Hasidic themes in his music.
Early and personal life
[change | change source]Matisyahu was born in Pennsylvania, but grew up in White Plains, New York. He was raised in a reconstructionist Jewish home. In his teenage years, he began to rebel and started to take drugs; later on he began a journey of self-exploration.
Matisyahu married his first wife, Tahlia, in August 2004, and they have three sons. In 2014 the couple divorced. In 2019 he got married again. He has stated that he is vegan.
Career
[change | change source]Miller performed for over a year as MC Truth in Bend, Oregon. In 2004, after having signed with JDub Records, he released his first album, Shake Off the Dust...Arise. In 2005 and 2006, he toured in the United States, Canada, and Europe; and made a number of stops in Israel, including a performance as the supporting act for Sting in June 2006. His video and album, Youth, produced by Bill Laswell, was released on March 7, 2006. it was Billboard magazine's number-one Digital Album.
Matisyahu's most famous songs are "King Without a
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Matisyahu
Reggae musician
Matisyahu, a Hasidic Jewish performer, became the most popular reggae artist in the United States as of 2006. The combination of performer and genre seemed unusual, and some observers classed Matisyahu as a novelty act. Matisyahu was completely serious about his music and faith, however, and his life and career had brought him to his unique status through a set of unusual circumstances. "As a Jew, as a hip-hopper, as a reggae lover, and as a brilliant, natural performer," noted London Evening Standard writer Chris Elwell-Sutton, "Matisyahu has proved himself to be the real thing."
Matisyahu was born Matthew Miller on June 30, 1979, in West Chester, Pennsylvania, to Jewish parents who were members of the liberal Reconstructionist movement. The family moved to Berkeley, California, and later settled in White Plains, New York. He disliked the Jewish religious instruction he received as a child, but took to music that had a spiritual dimension. The reggae orientation of his music had its roots in his early teens: he grew dreadlocks (which he accidentally set on fire with a Bunsen burner) and listened to music by reggae superstar Bob Marley, paying attention to the Old Testament imagery in Marley's songs of the Rastafarian religion. When he was 16,