Amazing kumzits in Israel with yaakov shwekey singing one of his top songs named rahem composed by pinky weber took place in a yeshiva in Ramet gan רמת גן choel hamoed sukkas 2011
Yaakov Shwekey (Hebrew: יעקב שוואקי, last name was originally spelled ,,Choueka") (born in 1977) is an Orthodox Jewish American recording artist and musical entertainer. Through his father, he is of Egyptian and Syrian Sephardic heritage, although his mother is Ashkenazic.
Yaakov Shwekey was raised in Brooklyn where he attended Yeshiva of Brooklyn. He now lives in Deal, New Jersey with his wife Jenine and their four children. Yaakov's career began when he and his brother Yisroel Meir sang with the Miami Boys Choir for a short period of time. As a young man Shwekey learned in Rabbi Menachem Davidowitz's yeshiva (TIUNY) in Rochester, NY, and for a short time in Yeshivas Ner Yisroel of Toronto. For a period of time he was an unofficial wedding singer. His debut solo album, ,,Shomati", was released in 2001. To date, ten albums have been released, including both albums of original songs and compilations of covers (an album of wedding songs and an album of kumzitz songs). Less than one year after releasing an album, ,,Ad Bli Dai", Shwekey released a brand new all middle eastern style songs album, titled, ,,Libi Bamizrach" - My Heart is in the East (July 2010). While Shwekey used some of his well known past composers, this time he also went to many of the composers and arrangers who have become mainstays working with the current Mizrachi genre in Israel. Featuring 10 brand new songs, and one traditional Sfardic melody, Libi Bamizrach includes songs composed by Yitzi Waldner, Yoni Rohe, Moshe Wertzberger, Yonatan Razel, Eli Laufer, and for the first time, a song partially composed by Yaakov Shwekey himself. Shwekey has headlined numerous concerts, including 3 HASC concerts and an OHEL concert. While not as popular as the two main jewish singers for over three decades, Mordechai Ben David, who carries the title "King of Jewish Music", and Avraham Fried, Yaakov Shwekey is of the famous Orthodox Jewish singers today, along with popular artists as Lipa Schmeltzer and Shloime Gertner.
Yaakov Shwekey is a singer and his music and songs are composed by others. His albums are produced by Yochi Briskman, and distributed in the US by Aderet Music, and in Israel by Greentec. Many different arrangers have arranged his albums including Moshe Laufer, Mona Rosenblum, Yanky Briskman, Leib Yaakov Rigler, and Yisroel Lamm. Until 2006 Shwekey's primary studio was "Studio X" (run by Yochi Briskman, engineered by Zohar "Baba" Buerger), today, most of his recording is done in his private home studio
Some of Shwekey's songs have garnered a substantial following. His most famous song is Racheim composed by Pinky Weber. The lyrics are from the prayer after eating, asking God to have mercy on the Jewish nation and the city of Jerusalem. As Shwekey describes this song, "It's a prayer. It's not just a song. We connect with G-d and ask Him to have mercy". In 2008/2009 ,,Vehi She'omdah", composed by Yonatan Razel and debuted on his ,,Live in Caesaria" concert DVD, and later rerecorded on ,,Ad Bli Dai" became a major hit. Many of his songs, including ,,Shomati" (from the Talmud) composed by Yossi Green and ,,Im Eshkacheich", from Psalms 137, have found considerable popularity as Jewish wedding songs.
In August 2007, Yaakov Shwekey and Avraham Fried were slated to headline a major concert in Jerusalem at Teddy Stadium. The event was produced by Moshe Ben-Zimra and billed as a commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem. Leading chareidi Rabbis, including Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, the Gerrer and Belzer Rabbis, Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman, Rabbi Shmuel Wosner, and Rabbi Chaim Pincha Sheinberg signed a ban which appeared in the chareidi press forbidding participation or attendance of the event or similar events.
Yaakov Shwekey issued a response that he had already posed the question to his rabbi, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, when an earlier concert featuring him, along with Mordechai Ben David, was also banned. Rabbi Ovadia Yosef responded that there is absolutely no prohibition as long as it is a completely separate seating event. Neither Shwekey nor Fried pulled out of the concert.
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i love jewish music!!!!
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