No one noticed Matisyahu when he climbed onstage at a downtown Manhattan concert venue in early January, drinking a cup of tea under dark red lights. It wasn’t until the onetime Hasidic reggae ...
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, the reggae singer Matisyahu released a song called “King Without A Crown.” Eons later, he’s still a part of the discourse, often due to his bumbling public ...
Matisyahu singing on stage with a guitarist accompanying him. Matisyahu, the Jewish American reggae, hip-hop, and alternative rock singer, rapper, beatboxer, and musician, brought his multiple musical ...
At 18 years old, Matthew Miller seemed like a typical teenager caught up in a rebellious lifestyle on the surface. When Miller arrived in Bend in the fall of 1998, he had spent the fall hitchhiking ...
Matt Miller, aka Matisyahu has gone through some changes. Not since the Beatles traded their cherubic and cute mop tops and Cardin collarless suits for the transcendental look of facial hair and Nehru ...
The first time I caught Matisyahu — Christmas Eve, 2003 at a club in Brooklyn — he was like nothing I’d ever seen. And musically, I’d seen a lot: a heavy metal barbershop quartet; a bluegrass jazz ...
Matisyahu was as singular an artist as there’s ever been: a Hasidic Jew, long beard and forelocks included, unearthing the Judaic underpinnings of Rastafarian reggae and reconnecting them to his faith ...