List of Jewish American musicians

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This is a list of famous Jewish American musicians. A list is also available of Jewish American Composers. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.

Contents

[edit] Solo musicians

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[edit] Band members

Arranged by band name

[edit] Classical musicians

[edit] Film composers

[edit] Jazz musicians

[edit] Music producers

[edit] Songwriters

[edit] Stage musicals writers

Note: While most Broadway musical writers are American, a minority are of other nationalities. Those of the latter who are Jewish are listed at List of Jewish musicians. Persons listed with a double asterisk (**) are winners of the Tony Award for Best Original Score. Persons listed with a triple asterisk (***) are winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Eichner, Itamar. "Israeli minister, American Idol", YNetNew.com, 2006-11-17. Retrieved on November 17, 2006.
  2. ^ Alisha - [1]
  3. ^ [2] "How a good-looking Jewish boy from Brooklyn discovered the secret of success in an updated form of mariachi music is perhaps beyond our scope."
  4. ^ [3] "Alex: There are a lot of religious elements. Not that we’re a Christian rock band. We’re both pretty much Jewish."
  5. ^ [4] "VAGINAL: Were Beck and Channing raised Jewish? BIBBE: Yeah, a bit. SEAN: When Jewish girls find out Beck is Jewish they'll just go crazy, cuz now they can bring him home to meet the folks."
  6. ^ [5] "Dan, reared in Iowa, a first-generation American and a Jew from the heartland..."
  7. ^ [6] "Theodore Bikel: I am what you might call a secular, cultural Jew..."
  8. ^ [7] "HB: No, I was the only Jewish kid in an all-Catholic drum and bugle corps, which was kind of a funny thing."
  9. ^ [8]
  10. ^ [9] "Jewish singer-songwriter Karla Bonoff was one of the best of that breed."
  11. ^ [10] "Bromberg plays up the irony of a nasal-voiced, skinny, white Jewish kid playing the blues."
  12. ^ [11]
  13. ^ [12] "Carlton, who is Jewish..."
  14. ^ [13] "Carmen, who is Jewish, sold more than 50 million records."
  15. ^ [14] "Aaron's dad, Bob, is fully Jewish -- Aaron is half Jewish."
  16. ^ Charvet - [15] "Hot babe and TV host Brooke Burke, 34, just got engaged to hunky Jewish actor David Charvet, also 34. (Burke is Jewish on her mother’s side.)"
  17. ^ [16] "Although Mark Cohn is actually Jewish..."
  18. ^ [17] [18] "This deep reflection led Davis to convert to Judaism, a calling he embraced throughout his life--and characteristically worked in as fodder for his act, joking that he was entertainment's only one-eyed Jewish black man."
  19. ^ [19] "Taylor Dayne Jewish girl Leslie Wonderman changed her first name to "Taylor" and her last name to "Dayne" to become one of the pop divas of the eighties."
  20. ^ [20] "Known as the Jewish Elvis, Neil Diamond is responsible for some of the catchiest not-quite-rock songs of the twentieth century"
  21. ^ [21] "He's a nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn who now makes the Lower East Side his home."
  22. ^ [22] "claimed her own identity, as a Jewish Lesbian..."
  23. ^ [23] "In March 2003, the Counting Crows’ Jewish lead singer Adam Duritz was..."
  24. ^ a b Dylan - [24] "Bob Dylan--a Jewish loner from Hibbing, Minnesota..."
  25. ^ Elliott - [25] "Ramblin’ Jack was the stage name of one Elliot Adnopoz, a Jewish kid from Flatbush whose father was a prominent surgeon."
  26. ^ Fedorov - [26] "Anthony Federov: I'm like half Christian, half Jewish. I'm like a mix."
  27. ^ [27] "A Song in his Heart"
  28. ^ [28] "Eddie Fisher — once known as the Jewish Sinatra"
  29. ^ Friedman - [29] "renowned Jewish singer Debbie Friedman..." [30] "Debbie Friedman Is The Queen Of Jewish Music"
  30. ^ [31] "Kinky Friedman—a Jewish cowboy from Texas"
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  32. ^ [32]
  33. ^ [33] "I'm also half Jewish so that helps!"
  34. ^ [34] "By the time she finished that first song and asked whether it was wrong for a nice Jewish girl to do a show on Easter Sunday, the resounding answer had to be “NO!”"
  35. ^ [35] "Goren, age 26, is nothing if not a nice Jewish boy"
  36. ^ a b [36] "Green is Jewish"
  37. ^ [37] "Notable Jewish Pisces: Josh Groban" [38] "Tell me, is your father.. I’m guessing Jewish? J: (laughs) My Dad converted when he married my Mom, actually, to Christianity, but his whole families side is Jewish, and, uh, and so, I do have that whole history with my family."
  38. ^ a b c d e f "Motion Pictures". Encyclopaedia Judaica. (1971-1972). Keter Publishing House. Retrieved on 2006-11-17.
  39. ^ He describes himself in concert as "A Jewish kid from Oregon brought up in an agnostic household singing the devil's music."
  40. ^ Love - [39] "She claims: “I’m at least five- eighths Jewish, depending on whether my grandfather was that famous actor or Sam Brand, a publicist for that actor. So you see, I’m a nice Jewish girl… and I’ve lots of Irish in me. Norman Mailer said it was the coolest thing to be half-Irish, half-Jewish. And look, I have the coolest thing I want to show you."
  41. ^ Takiff, Jonathan (2006-11-21). 'Tis the season.... Philadelphia Daily News. Retrieved on November 21, 2006.
  42. ^ Shimp, Rachel, others as noted. "Your last chance to see that brutal film noir, It's a Wonderful Life", Seattle Weekly, 2006-12-20. Retrieved on December 20, 2006.
  43. ^ Bloom, Nate. "Celebrity Jews", The Jewish News Weekly of Northern California, 2007-04-05. Retrieved on April 5, 2007.
  44. ^ Jones, Jen (3/07). "Sara Paxton". JVibe. 14-17. Retrieved on 2007-04-05. 
  45. ^ Paxton, Sara (2005-11-25, 2005-12-11). Sara's Blog. Sara Paxton Official Website. Retrieved on January 12, 2007.
  46. ^ [40] "Pop punk PINK is the latest celebrity to jump to the defence of disgraced actor MEL GIBSON, insisting he should be forgiven for making anti-Semitic remarks... I'm a fan of his work. I think anybody with opinions like that needs well-wishing. "And I'm Jewish. Alcohol makes you do crazy things"
  47. ^ Spektor - [41] "Regina Spektor, the Brooklyn-based, classically trained Jewish émigré whose family fled the Soviet Union for the Brooklyn when she was nine."
  48. ^ [42]"A young Jewish boy from Richmond, Elliott Yamin has come a long way from bagging groceries at Westbury Pharmacy and singing jingles at a local radio station."
  49. ^ Stein - [43] "Chris Stein, a Jewish fellow from Brooklyn..."
  50. ^ Delson, Bourdon - [44] "Linkin Park: Guitarist Brad Delson and drummer Rob Bourdon are Jewish."
  51. ^ Levine - [45] "Lead singer/songwriter Adam Levine is Jewish."
  52. ^ [46] "Not surprisingly for a bunch of Hollywood kids, lead singer Alex Greenwald, former drummer Jason Schwartzman, and guitarist Jacques Brauthbar are also all Jews"
  53. ^ Berman - [47] "David Berman was born into a secular Jewish family in Williamsburg, Va., and lived there, until the age of 7, when his parents divorced."
  54. ^ Valensi - [48] "Baptised Episcopalian, Hammond informally converted to Judaism, he says, a year and a half ago, so that Valensi wouldn't be the only Jew in the band."
  55. ^ Bell - [49] "Although he doesn't exactly think of it this way, Joshua Bell is the latest in a long line of Jewish violin-playing aristocracy... Bell is, by his own admission, more of a cultural Jew than a religious one. "My mother is Jewish, a very typical Jewish mother," he said. "She was very involved in my practicing. Both my parents were behind me and loved music. But for me, Jewishness was very much a cultural tie. I feel very close to the Jewish side of the family. I grew up with my Jewish cousins, going to all the bar mitzvahs, so I feel very close to that side, and I identify myself as being Jewish.""
  56. ^ a b c d [50] "Jascha Heifetz, Fritz Kreisler, Mischa Elman... were all Jews, too"
  57. ^ Gingold - [51] "His teacher was Joseph Gingold, and as Bell fondly recalled him, "He was a Russian Jewish violinist..."
  58. ^ [52] "Jewish Mozart?... The son of a language professor and an Israeli-born painter...
  59. ^ Obituary, Jewish Chronicle, Jan 19, 2007 p.45
  60. ^ Aaron Copland and His World (The Bard Music Festival) Carol J. Oja, Judith Tick, Page 1
  61. ^ a b Rosen, Steven (2006-11-16). "Want to spoof Purim and the Oscars? Be our Guest!". The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles 21 (39). Retrieved on 2006-11-16. 
  62. ^ a b Bloom, Nate (2006-01-27). "Celebrity Jews". The Jewish News Weekly of Northern California. Retrieved on 2006-11-17. 
  63. ^ http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/21407/edition_id/436/format/html/displaystory.html
  64. ^ http://jbuff.com/c080703.htm
  65. ^ http://www.jewish-theatre.com/visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=797
  66. ^ http://www.laweekly.com/music/music/lalo-schifrin-swings/2811/
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  68. ^ http://jbuff.com/c080703.htm
  69. ^ Goldberg - [53] "several Jewish artists –– pianist Aaron Goldberg is another"
  70. ^ "I'm Jewish as well. I was raised celebrating Jewish holidays": Jewish Chronicle, 29/9/2006, p.50
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