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...novel personalities, stories and gimmicks, but the 26-year-old Hasidic reggae singer Matisyahu—who visited Harvard’s Chabad House on Sunday, February 13—is undoubtedly one of a kind. Before stepping onstage at the Avalon in front of a full house, Matisyahu dined with 40 Harvard students and fielded diverse questions about his faith and his music...
...entered with his infant son pressed against his chest, Matisyahu was met with spontaneous and jubilant applause from a surprised group of students who did not expect the singer, who wears the traditional payos of side curls, to be well over six feet tall...
Born into a Reconstructionist Jewish family in White Plains, New York, Matisyahu says he first began to feel a resonance with faith when he traveled to Israel at the age of 16. He began to hone his musical abilities while enrolled in a wilderness program for at-risk teenagers...
Following a two year stint at the New School in Manhattan, Matisyahu studied with Hasidic rabbis at New York University. Within six months, he had changed his original name—Matthew Miller—to Matisyahu...
...Matisyahu Rebel Roots: White Plains, N.Y. Reggae Sound: The Hasidic hipster who hails Bob Marley in Yiddish has two fall albums. Island Cred: Some Rastafarians view themselves as the original Jews...