Question:
Who are some Jewish musicians? And how did they/Judism help shape music?
josiferbi
2010-03-25 14:44:07 UTC
I wish to dig deeper into my religion and I have a love for nusic so I want to know who some Jewish musicians are in America (Bob Dylan, Billy Joel...) and either what role Judism played in their life or how Jewish musicians have (individually) helped shape music inti what it is today or how Jewish musicians helped form modern music in this age. I know its a difficult question/topic but anything you know would be extremely helpful, thank you.
Five answers:
Buster Friskers
2010-03-25 15:54:07 UTC
Paula Abdul



Lou Adler (Producer for The Mamas and The Papas



Herb Alpert



Marty Balin (Jefferson Airplane)



Jeff Barry (Producer of The Archies)



The Beastie Boys (Aam Horowitz, Adam Yauch amd Michael Diamond)



Beck



Walter Becker (Steeley Dan)



Dan Bern



Roy Bittan (The E-Street Band)



Michael Bloomfield



The Blues Project (Al Kooper, Danny Kalb, Steve Katz, Andy Kulberg, Roy Blumenfeld)



Marc Bolen (T.Rex)



Michael Bolton



Randy Brecker (Blood,Sweat and Tears)



Gary Brooker (Procol Harum)



David Bryan (Bon Jovi)



Leonard Cohen (No Kidding)



Bobby Colomby (Blood,Sweat and Tears)



Jim Croce (Converted)



The Cyrkle (Don Danneman and Marty Fried)



Clive Davis



Sammy Davis, Jr.



Taylor Dayne



Neil Diamond (The Jewish Elvis)



Spencer Dryden (Jefferson Airplane)



Adam Duritz (The Counting Crows)



Bob Dylan (The former Mr. Zimmerman)



Jakob Dylan



Mama Cass Elliot



Brian Epstein



Howie Epstein (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)



Donald Fagen (Steeley Dan)



Marianne Faithfull



The Flamingos (Met in the oldest Black Jewish Congregation in the US)



Alan Fried



Kinky Friedman



Art Garfunkel (The luckiest man in history)



J.Giels Band (Peter Wolf, Stephen Bladd,Magic Dick, Seth Justman, Danny Klein (not J.Giels))



Peter Green (Original Fleetwood Mac)



Guster (Phish)



Mickey Hart (The Grateful Dead)



Susanna Hoffs (The Bangles)



Janis Ian



Jay and the Americans (The entire original band)



Billy Joel (Both Parents are Jewish)



Mick Jones (The Clash, Mother was Jewish)



Steve Katz (The Bles Project/Blood Sweat and Tears)



Jorma Kaukonen (Jefferson Airplane/Hot Tuna)



Carole King (need I say more)



Don Kirschner



The Knack (All four members)



Mark Knofler



Al Kooper



Joey Kramer (Aerosmith Drummer)



Lenny Kravitz (Father is Jewish)



Robbie Krieger (The Doors)



Leiber and Stoller (Did Elvis know?)



Fred Lipsuis (Blood,Sweat and Tears)



Lisa Loeb



Courtney Love (Try bringing that home to mother)



Stan Lynch (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)



Barry Manilow



Richard Meltzer (Blue Oyster Cult)



Bette Midler



Randy Newman



Phil Ochs



Lee Oskar (War)



Steven Page (Barenaked Ladies)



Sandy Pearlman (Blue Oyster Cult)



Trevor Rabin (Yes)



Joey Ramone



Red Hot Chili Peppers (Anthony Kiedis, Michael Balzary (Flea), Hillel Slovak)



Lou Reed



Keith Reid (Procol Harum)



Robbie Robertson (The Band, Father was Jewish)



David Lee Roth



Rick Rubin (Def Jam Records)



Rush



Neil Sedaka



John Segal (Twisted Sister)



Gene Simmons (Kiss, his poor mother)



Carly Simon



Paul Simon



Phil Spector



Paul Stanley (See Gene Simmons)



Chris Stein (Blondie)



Barbara Streisand



Syvain Sylvain (The New York Dolls)



10 CC (4 members of the band were Jewish)



Tiny Tim



The Tokens



Max Weinberg (Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band)



Jerry Weiss (Blood Sweat and Tears)



Leslie West (Mountain)



Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul and Mary)



Zal Yanovsky (The Lovin Spoonful)



Warren Zevon (Father was Jewish)
anonymous
2016-06-01 05:31:52 UTC
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2016-11-09 14:50:11 UTC
Taylor Dayne Jewish
anonymous
2010-03-25 14:50:05 UTC
Neil Diamond.. One of the best..
anonymous
2010-03-25 14:46:43 UTC
lead singer of Vampire weekend..



They play world music/ African- pop inspired songs.Love it.


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