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Episode 123: Modi and Periel are joined by the talented Riki Rose to discuss all things cantorial music.
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Speaker 1They do a lot of charity work and Arthur's a very close friend and Randy listens to the podcast to report to Arthur what we talk about . So that was Whiteandluxcom , whiteandluxcom , and in the house tonight , today , whatever it is , we have Ricky Rose , shulam aleichem . Ricky Rose , a musician , a songwriter , an entertainer , a performer , a neshama , a vessel of one of God's gifts , a gift that the Eberster put on the earth . He put inside you when you watch . It's a good introduction , no , good introduction . Yes , nice to meet you .
Speaker 4Nice to meet you .
Speaker 1Okay , so listen like this the first time I met you you do you remember where it was ?
Speaker 1um , it was at a program you remember , it's a facial program and you know who introduced us that I don't remember yiddle , oh yes yiddle , yiddle , uh yiddle , who is yiddle wordiger rightl , who is Yidl Werdiger right , who is an amazing singer and songwriter and produced albums on his own , but also happens to be the son of Mordechai Ben David . He shouldn't be known as the son of Mordechai Ben David . He should be an amazing singer and songwriter . He is , and I sat next to him . I finished the show and we sat next to him . I finished the show , we sat next to him and we found a corner somewhere in this big hotel and we sat there and whoever was there was like maybe 10 people Hanging out Just chilling . And Modi , he says you know , ricky , I go no . And he says to me in this very chichita show , like face .
Speaker 1Like this is somebody , this is somebody , and I go . No , he says to me she sings chazanas . You don't know what's going on , how good it is Cantorial singing , and she didn't even like take a beat . But she went into a song which performers don't usually do . But you said here I have an audience , let's do it . And I think you sang .
Speaker 4Rahim no .
Speaker 1Could be Rahim . No , or it could have been Pinchik's Ruzza de Shabbos .
Speaker 4I think it was Rachem . No , because somebody recorded that video and posted it online .
Speaker 1Okay , this is a hundred years ago by the way .
Speaker 3Well , let's hear it .
Speaker 1Oh , from Ricky ? No , give us the Rachem .
Speaker 4No .
Speaker 3Yeah but closer to the mic .
Speaker 1This is a piece . This is Yoselokuk Okay , go ahead . I . This is Yosela Cook . Okay , go ahead , I'll tell you who .
Speaker 3After Just make sure when you sing you're close to that , so that our listeners don't complain .
Speaker 4Ah , complaining , rakhim eno Adusha melekeinu .
Speaker 5Al Yisroel hamechom .
Speaker 4Ve'al Yerushalayim yirechom .
Speaker 5Ve'al etzion mishkan kevod echom Shabbat shalom .
Speaker 4Thank you very much . Wow , Isn't that amazing .
Speaker 1And I'm telling you 10 people 10 people showed up and listened to her and it was , and I said okay , so I turned to you . I turned to you and I go pitch perfect . He goes pitch perfect .
Speaker 3And .
Speaker 1I was like right away . And then , and that's , and that , go pitch perfect , he goes pitch perfect . And I was like right away , and that's how I met , that's how I met you . And then we follow each other on Instagram . I just see the journeys you're going on , you see the journeys and she shows . Once in a while , after a show , she comes over and says hello , but she no .
Speaker 3What is going on here ? That was , first of all , amazing . I mean you look like you walked off the set of like an mtv music video in 1996 and there it is , and I mean that in like the most complimentary way ever . And then you start talking and you're in like fiddle around the room .
Speaker 1No .
Speaker 3Well , I don't know what .
Speaker 4MTV is Exactly Okay . Is it like a TV network ?
Speaker 1It was a TV network . Yeah , they used to have videos of music .
Speaker 3We were not allowed . No , please tell us what is going on .
Speaker 1No , no , I want to talk about what she's doing now . Okay .
Speaker 2Her story is interesting .
Speaker 1She grew up in a Hasidic home . Yo Hasidic home . No , Give us a little background .
Speaker 4I grew up Hasidic .
Speaker 1No , which kind of ?
Speaker 4Hasidic B'nai Yoel . Have you ever heard of B'nai Yoel or no , you ever heard of the Satmer ? Has a little branch called Benai Yoil . There's the two Satmers , aroni and Zaloni . There's two rabbis that they were fighting . They split . There's the two big rabbis . Then there's a smaller group , benai Yoil .
Speaker 1The sons of Yoil .
Speaker 4So they are only with the old Rebbe , kind of like the Meshachistan with Chabad . You know what that is .
Speaker 2Okay , let's just say I do . Is this enough for you ? It's so interesting .
Speaker 1Of course I know the Mashiach they're not like the Mashiachist .
Speaker 4They don't claim for the rabbi to be alive and the rabbi to be Mashiach , but they only go with the old Satmar ways . The rabbi Nehoy .
Speaker 1But to the point . She in the house grew up speaking Yiddish .
Speaker 4Yeah , we only spoke Yiddish in the house and we were only allowed Yiddish books and Yiddish , everything Yiddish and thank God because when you sing Yiddish , you sound like you sing Yiddish .
Speaker 1Do you understand what I'm saying ? So , whatever your past was , whatever you went through , you went through . But now this vessel , let me tell you she's a vessel of one of God's gifts . When she sings , I could tell you a few times I've seen her perform . There's a , there's . Sometimes you look up , there's an entire room having an amazing time , but the one having the best time is the performer yeah am I right or wrong when you're in the zone ? Yeah no , are you not having the best time in the world ?
Speaker 4I am and I also feel like , uh , I need the crowd for that . I can't perform like alone and have the best time I need to have the people there yeah , yeah , and you get into it .
Speaker 1So I singing is such a zone periel , I can't even explain it to you . It's like it's a one , it's like a high , like when you're doing comedy . When you're doing comedy , when you are in the zone and you know this is gonna sit and the celsius hits and you still know , oh my god , I have 30 minutes left . Thank god , it's gonna be the best ride ever and the whole room's having a great time . No one's having a better time than me , right ? And you're the same way when you perform .
Speaker 4No , yes , I love it . I love every second of . I feel like I was born for it and I don't have like any . I know a lot of singers have like stage fright or they're a little introverted .
Speaker 1I'm not like that there's no introversion whatsoever when I'm on stage , I come alive even more yeah .
Speaker 3And did you always know this ? Even as like a little girl ?
Speaker 4Always knew it . I started singing before I was speaking .
Speaker 1So what was your first like song that you connected to you should get I get eaten . Oh wow , you're gonna give us a little the beginning . Give us the beginning the beginning and I'll translate for for for parallel , okay , I ?
Speaker 3would sing this when I was like three years old . Nisht is nothing , no .
Speaker 1And I'm still singing it Lidog . Nothing to worry about . Don't worry basically .
Speaker 4Don't worry , Jews .
Speaker 1And Periel's learning Yiddish . Okay , so this is an Avram Fried song , nisht G'day . Don't worry , yiddin , this song is like one of those Avram Fried songs . When you hear two chords , you know the song , what it is already and you're already in the state of mind . Tanya .
Speaker 4Tanya Right .
Speaker 1All those songs , it's like you just doom , boom , Such like hits in the Jewish world . That's I always say . I feel so bad for the Goyim that they don't have Jewish music . Okay , so this is one of those songs , and the beginning is just so unbelievable .
Speaker 4It's a crazy song . I feel like I need a stage and a big , like I need to stand for this song . But I'm sitting now so I'll try . Do you want to move in a better ?
Speaker 1position .
Speaker 3No , it's okay .
Speaker 1Those of you who know she's sitting while she's doing this .
Speaker 4Yeah , you need to stand and move around for this .
Speaker 1We can fix that . No , it's okay , you can stand Okay .
Speaker 4You want to stand ? I don't know you should sit , you should stand .
Speaker 1Okay .
Speaker 5Let's use this . A sweet dream .
Speaker 1I've seen .
Speaker 4In the third temple .
Speaker 5I was .
Speaker 1The priest for bringing the sacrifices .
Speaker 5The Levites are singing .
Speaker 1Moshe Rabbeinu is teaching us the Torah . The Sanhedrin sits the Knesset's soil . Instead of fighting , they're learning Torah and they're living Torah Aaron the coin . The menorah of the Netzach to win oh world in awe .
Speaker 5All the secrets of getting along are revealed . Wow , then the song goes . Then the song goes . Don't worry , don't worry , don't worry , don't worry .
Speaker 4Don't worry , don't worry , don't worry , don't worry , don't worry , don't worry , don't worry , don't worry , don't worry , don't worry , don't worry , don't worry , don't worry .
Speaker 3Don't worry , don oh my God .
Speaker 1Thank you so much . What a song , what a visual it puts you in Of Mashiach . It's Mashiach . It's an energy Mashiach song .
Speaker 3It's a Mashiach energy song .
Speaker 1It's a Mashiach song Period , Ricky . I just want to tell you something ?
Speaker 3Yeah , modi never asks for guests . Ever , Ever Okay . I mean , we've done maybe like 120 something episodes . Modi never asks for guests , ever , ever Okay .
Speaker 1I mean , we've done maybe like 120-something episodes of this show . You are , I think , like maybe one other A few . Again , benny Roganitsky , who's a cantor , a chazen . I asked him to come on , yeah , but that's , I know . I know this is a gift . By the way , I want to say something on the podcast right now , the song Rahim that you sang before . Yeah , obviously , yosela Rosenblatt , that's his song , but there is a version of it , sung by Ari Klein , that could make your skin fall off . That's how great it is . Wow , that's how great it is . Wow , that's how insane it is . Again , another performer who you can see is having a better time than anybody listening to him . Have you ?
Speaker 4ever heard him no .
Speaker 1Amazing Check it out . Yeah , so when you do these shows , how do you set the audience up , because you can't hit them with that kind of a song .
Speaker 4Yeah , this is an ending song . This is always the ending song , and at the end of it I'll get down on my knees and I'll go . You know , I'll do the whole running up the octave with my voice until I can't anymore , and you know . So it's pretty crazy .
Speaker 1It's crazy .
Speaker 4It's crazy when I do this song , everybody gets like you know , and Everybody gets like you know , and I , when I do it too , I get like this adrenaline pumping through my body when you're singing . Even now , just doing it now . I already got like my face is hot right now .
Speaker 1Right , shaking a little bit . It hits me sometimes , when I'm honored to take the homage , to do the singing to be the guy that leads the service . You understand how insane that is . Even you understand that . But the tzibur the public has sent you .
Speaker 1You're the tzibur to go represent them . You know it's an insane title if you think about it . And you're up there and this is a godly thing and a spiritual , and you're connecting and you're singing and this past Shabbos I sang . I was up there , I was so in the zone and you know how we sing , and then it's followed by Kaddish . So I was so in the zone and the shul was singing with me . I sang . Should we sing a little bit of that ?
Speaker 4Sure .
Speaker 1I don't know it so well . You don't know it .
Speaker 4I know it , but like not well enough to rip it out .
Speaker 1You do a Karl Bach Nigen to Vashamru . It's like the part of the service . So at the end I go into , I repeat it . I don't understand You're not going to . I repeat it in a little more Chazanishi Like I go through it and at the end I went back into the for the Kaddish , and that's so , that's it just happens like it just happened to me .
Speaker 1It was so good , nice , and you're performing in the best you can do . I'm not Kosovitsky , I'm not any of those , I'm the best that I could do , and you're feeling it , but I can do . I'm not kosovitsky , I'm not any of those , I'm the best that I could do , and you're feeling it , but I heard you eating those notes , yes so you know who goes to our synagogue leah forester , all right , who also has an amazing voice .
Speaker 1She was a guest a while ago , like early episodes , uh , in different studios without mr Fancy Couch and .
Speaker 4Leia and I go way back .
Speaker 1Yes , leia Forrester , also a performer .
Speaker 3Amazing .
Speaker 1Amazing . So she's in my shul , she goes to our shul so she sees me . She sees me going into the zone with the singing and she can tell that I'm like'm there . You know she gets that yeah , yeah a performance can understand that right ? Yeah , for sure so tell me about your one woman show so what ? What do you ? What do we get when we go see you ?
Speaker 4you get a little peek into um my life . You know growing up and I the songs that I write yes um , are pretty much about either my past or how I'm dealing with things now .
Speaker 1With a positive note .
Speaker 4With a positive note , uplifting even a little funny . Some of my songs are funny . If you translate them to English they're not funny , they're dark and heavy , but in Yiddish it's funny somehow .
Speaker 3So tell us a little bit , give the audience like a little bit of the story of what .
Speaker 1Maybe through one of the songs .
Speaker 4So this is one of the songs . It's called the Chatzitim and the Nervim . Do you know what that means ?
Speaker 1Yes .
Speaker 4Chatzitim and the Nervim means Well , to translate it exactly , it means I have to do with my nerves , but really what do I have to do ? It's really hot , but they make it one word it implies that I'm crazy , I'm mentally ill , I'm um , like in a very . You use it as a person like , oh , oh , what's wrong with him ? In Hebrew .
Speaker 1In Hebrew , In Yiddish , you just need .
Speaker 4That's it . So , for someone else . You say For me it's so . There's this play that we grew up with . It's called the Letz T'Gedank , and one of the scenes in there is this guy he goes to the doctor . It starts Chaim Stinkovic guides him doctor . His name is Chaim Stinkovic and he goes to the doctor and he says I'll give you a little .
Speaker 3He says he sees the guy in the waiting room .
Speaker 4He sees the guy in the waiting room , he says what are you doing by the doctor ? What are you doing by the doctor ? He says I'm going to the doctor With what ? With the nerves , with the nerves . Why are you yelling ? I want to be with the nerves . So basically saying , oh , I'm going to the nerves , I'm crazy , what I'm crazy . That's why I'm here at the doctor . What I'm crazy , I'm crazy . Why are you yelling , you crazy ? So yeah , what ?
Speaker 1are you yelling for ? Are you crazy ? I mean , he's like he's good , but you nah , I get it . I get it .
Speaker 4Oh no , so that's how the song starts .
Speaker 2No , go ahead .
Speaker 4I hate you with my nerves . I hate you with my nerves . I hate you with my nerves . I hate you with my nerves . My mother told me that every bottle I drink is a bottle of sugar . I hate you with my nerves . I'm so nervous . It's so good .
Speaker 5What are you doing with your nerves ?
Speaker 4My dad has a party so I can't come in . I'm afraid I won't be able to meet you . What are you doing with your nerves when I was 15 years old I wanted to walk in the nerves . I'm a psychiatrist . I keep pills in my mouth Deeper in the spouts . No one should know that I'm enjoying myself Now that I'm older my staff is almost older . I can't take it anymore , so I'm a little too tired . I have tea with the nerves .
Speaker 5I have tea with the nerves . I have tea with the nerves .
Speaker 4I have tea . With what with my nerves ? I'm going to you with my With my nerves . With my nerves . That's a little part of the song . It has another .
Speaker 1It's amazing . It's amazing . Good for you , but you understand it's amazing .
Speaker 3So it almost feels like you don't even really have to understand Yiddish or all the words .
Speaker 1You got two of the words . You can understand everything else .
Speaker 3Yeah , a lot of Like . You explain it like a little bit enough that the music is obviously incredible and speaks for itself . Yes , am I right ? Did you understand any of that ? I understand enough . I understood enough to .
Speaker 1What was the Hebrew word ? The therapist Psychiatry .
Speaker 3Psychiat , therapist .
Speaker 1Psychiater .
Speaker 2Psychiater . Psychiater .
Speaker 4They said it was mitter , it was okay .
Speaker 1Half of Yiddish is Hebrew . It was mature Mutar .
Speaker 3I understood the bottle of Tylenol . Okay , I feel like you don't need like you don't need to understand every single word to enjoy it , though that's what's kind of amazing , right ?
Speaker 4so if I translate it to English , it's going to seem like pretty dark . It's saying my mother told me even though the first line of the song I'm thinking of changing it into Montata and , and then my father , because my mother never said anything like that , it's just my father .
Speaker 1Oh , your dad has a sense of humor .
Speaker 4Yeah , an abusive sense of humor .
Speaker 1Oh , okay , yeah .
Speaker 4I didn't get that .
Speaker 3Oh , I was like , oh , okay . It's that your father said you were crazy .
Speaker 4It's yeah , I'm saying first my mother and then my father , but really it's just my father . My mother just said don't listen to Tati , is Tati the father ? Tati is the father . So basically , my father told my mother , told me in the song , but my father told me that every Shidduch that they read to me is a Meshiginit , is a crazy person , because you have it's the team of the Nervim , because you're crazy . And then , when I was 15 years old , and even about 15 , I already wanted to run away . Um , I swallowed a bottle of tylenol . You know , because I didn't know tylenol is not going to kill you . Um , uh , actually , because I didn't know I could see a therapist , because I didn't really know about like mental health or anything like that .
Speaker 4And then , after asking and begging a few for a while , they said it was okay to see a psychiatrist . Then I had to hide the pills so nobody should see that I'm taking them . Now that I'm older I'm not hiding anymore . I can say with freedom , I can say with freedom with happiness yeah that I'm a little means a little crazy , that's amazing .
Speaker 4That's really incredible really that's the first part of the song . The second part of the song I mention a bunch of other things that have helped me throughout with anxiety , depression . You know mental health issues , but you're slaying it now , but you're killing it now .
Speaker 1From all of that , what happened in the house ? You got a song out of it . I got a song out of it , yeah imagine if you didn't get a song out of it . Yes , but you got a song out of it .
Speaker 4Yes , I got a song out of it and it's a crazy good song .
Speaker 1It's a crazy good song , so Baruch Hashem .
Speaker 4Baruch Hashem .
Speaker 1Baruch Hashem , thank God I don't really like .
Speaker 4I don't . I'm very happy with everything that I went through . Yeah , like I didn't have a hard life .
Speaker 1I'm almost it was too easy . My father paid for college for me . My father paid for college me was one of the funniest things I think ever happened in my house . My mom tells him modi's going to college . My father goes , our modi , and she says to him . She says to him , she says to him yeah , all the kids in America go to college . And he goes , our Modi's going to college and he paid for the whole thing . God bless him , because otherwise this Modi wouldn't have gone to college .
Speaker 3God bless your man .
Speaker 1So maybe if my parents gave me a harder upbringing I would have been funnier or something . Probably , not , probably , not Probably not Listen .
Speaker 3I think that it's really incredible and probably you're giving a lot of strength to a lot of other little girls who don't know that they don't have to follow that road . I can't imagine that it was probably really scary and difficult . So it's really impressive and I give you a lot of credit On this tone you're using . It's true , yeah , but keep this up B .
Speaker 3Because you want to make it all like it's like light , but it's not . It's like a really amazing thing for her to put on those pink glasses and that t-shirt like a rock star I think it's easy for her to put that on and to put a tichel on .
Speaker 4Probably am I right yeah , I do put a tichel on when I go to see the family .
Speaker 1So you do yeah , or a tichel is sometimes it's the shmata , they put their cover , the headers exactly how dare you call it a shmuck ?
Speaker 3I do know a Yiddish word she knows .
Speaker 1By the way , do you know who rocks a tichel on another level , can I just fling off the topic ? Leo and I watched the documentary of Elizabeth Taylor .
Speaker 4Oh , I don't know who that is . No , sorry .
Speaker 1She was an actress . I'm going to tell you what she is .
Speaker 5I'm going to explain you . I'm going to explain you , you're going to explain me .
Speaker 1I'm going to explain you what grammar , what's grammar in the world ?
Speaker 3That's amazing .
Speaker 1Elizabeth Taylor was a very huge actress back in the 1940s and 50s , huge , the biggest thing Hollywood ever had . And so they were telling… it's her recordings and you can see they always show pictures and she always covers her head .
Speaker 3So she's like this tichel , she's like a tichel yeah , yeah , she wears like and so , but she was very glamorous .
Speaker 1Leo and I , before we go to bed , we watch a little something until the pills hit so with her . It's like two husbands the next two husbands , the next we like . The documentary lasted us . A documentary that's only supposed to last one night lasted us for three nights . It was miraculous , but she rocked the tichel .
Speaker 4A tichel is really good . I have no problem with the tichel . It's the spitzel that I had a problem with Okay that I had a problem .
Speaker 1What's a schnitzel Is ?
Speaker 3that like a piece of chicken ? No , it looks like a piece of chicken .
Speaker 1It's when they cover their hair with , like a thicker thing with a hat attached to it .
Speaker 4It's like some people will look good in it and I don't want to ever disrespect anyone that wears it and likes it . And it's just for me . My family is supposed to wear a schnitzel , like to wear a spitzel , like my mother wears a spitzel , and , ironically , three we're four sisters . Only one of us is wearing a spitzel .
Speaker 3What if you ?
Speaker 4don't want to wear a spitzel . Well , now that I haven't been wearing a spitzel , my father hasn't spoken to me in what 13 years ? It's unfortunate for him , yeah .
Speaker 1Wow , what's he missing ?
Speaker 4It's a loss well , it's not like he was speaking to me a lot before that , right , but uh but you have close friends you sing along with . I see that yeah , and I have my sister . We've been singing a lot together .
Speaker 1About to get there they your sister , and you are amazing , your sister , and you are amazing , and you also with this rabbi .
Speaker 4Oh Rabisha .
Speaker 1Rabisha , oh yeah , who came to my show in the Hamptons ?
Speaker 4She's the best .
Speaker 1I saw you guys did a full… A live A full… A Havdalah service together . It was beautiful . Thank you , it was a beautiful Havdalah service , yeah .
Speaker 4Rabisha's been very good to me . She's . Yeah , so risha's been very good to me .
Speaker 3She's I'm living with her in long island .
Speaker 4Great . Where did you grow up ? Did you grow up in new york , um ?
Speaker 3I grew up in brooklyn , in williamsburg , that is williamsburg , that is , in new york , or maybe it's not that , that part of williamsburg ?
Speaker 1yeah , uh-huh it's , it's new york , but you know , recently I had to buy mezuzahs for a new house and I buy them in Williamsburg . Oh , okay , the guy's name is Zaidi .
Speaker 4Zaidi .
Speaker 1Zaidul .
Speaker 3Zaidul , maybe Wait a second .
Speaker 1Anyway , it doesn't matter . I buy my mezuzahs there and the guys that work there are born in Williamsburg . They've grown up in Williamsburg . They barely speak any English .
Speaker 4Okay , so this is what I'm going to say you don't have to if you're staying in your community , stop .
Speaker 3Everybody stop . I don't think that the two of you can appreciate how insane this sounds to somebody who maybe is not familiar with this . How you can grow up in Brooklyn and not know who Elizabeth Taylor is is an incredible thing .
Speaker 4It's pretty wild .
Speaker 3It's wild .
Speaker 4But I would choose it . If I had to choose , I would choose it over knowing who it is . I would choose Zemel and Chaim Stinkovich from that play that we grew up with Over Elizabeth Taylor .
Speaker 3First of all , I love , I'm stinking bitch .
Speaker 1But I'm proof that you could know both . Yes , exactly , you can also know both , yeah .
Speaker 4You know what I appreciate .
Speaker 1No .
Speaker 4The culture shock and the finding out stuff .
Speaker 3Right , that's what I was about to say People don't get that .
Speaker 4And I get that , which I appreciate that so much . That must be so exciting for you , so exciting , be so exciting for you . So exciting in the beginning . Now it's not as exciting anymore because I already know everything well , I don't know everything .
Speaker 3I know everything . You definitely don't know everything .
Speaker 4I'm gonna take you with me . I really don't know everything , um , but like when you're in this bubble and you're in the safe , uh little um shelter , yes , and you've never , ever heard a goisha song . You've never heard the radio . You've never , ever heard a Goetia song . You've never heard the radio . You've never seen a movie . And then you hear your first Goetia song which was what for you I was in the 99 cent store on Broadway and Hayward .
Speaker 4I think they closed down . I don't know if they're still open , but I was over there getting school supplies . I was like I want to go to the Goetia store .
Speaker 3How old were you .
Speaker 4I was about 15 , I usually never went into even a goisha store , so I wouldn't even hear the radio anywhere . And we were told , oh , you hear the radio , like make sure you tune it out anywhere . So I'm in there , I'm already a little , um , you know , uh , I don both . It's curious , not it's I was , you were saying like curious curious curious , curious , curious , curious and rebellious .
Speaker 1Let me tell you , if I'm the one and I'm the one catching you , you're in trouble what did I say ? I'm kidding you're curious , curious . He's very curious , no curious , whichious Curious he's very curious , no Curious . Which , by the way , that little banter Leah Foster made a business out of it A hundred percent , a hundred percent out of it .
Speaker 4I was naigereg .
Speaker 1Naigereg . Okay , no , go ahead .
Speaker 4I was naigereg .
Speaker 1So she was . You were in the 99 cents store , I wasn't as much naigereg as I was ovgeregt , how great is Y go ahead ?
Speaker 4so so I'm in the store and what's the song ? Um ? And it's playing , ironically , a taylor swift song . Um , which . Are you like a fan of taylor swift ?
Speaker 4no , not at all , but I just think okay yeah , now I listen to like bb king and ray charles . You know what I mean ? I don't listen to this crap . But then this was very new to me . So I hear she wears T-shirts , I wear shorts or something like that . I don't know if I said it wrong and I'm like they're singing about short skirts , which I'm not allowed to wear , and it's a girl singing . I've never heard a woman singing , besides for Kinneret , wow . And it's like . And then I'm walking down the aisle and I see this notebook and it has like Hannah Montana on it . So I made this assumption in my head oh , maybe it's this girl singing . So I thought like , oh , she's blonde , it sounds like she's blonde , it makes sense . So in my head that was that song and I was so fascinated by it I was like , oh , I want more of this .
Speaker 1The best part of the story is the way she pronounced Hannah Montana , what did ?
Speaker 4I say Hannah Montana , hannah Montana . Yeah , you said it perfectly . You couldn't have said it better .
Speaker 1You said it exactly the way it should be said Mojdeh , mojdeh .
Speaker 4So I already knew I had like a cousin and a friend that I know they listen to the radio . So one of my friends my bad friends that I wasn't allowed to be friends with , showed me on I had a little MP3 player , showed me how to like use the FM radio , like how to get to like a channel , and I was like whoa , this is the the things I was feeling . You can't get that when you grow up somewhere , like how you have to jump out of a airplane to get that feeling .
Speaker 4You know what I mean wow um so I feel like now that I can do all these things . I have to go rob a bank to get this feeling . You know what I mean , or just get on stage and sing .
Speaker 2Chasing the high .
Speaker 1Chasing the high it's like a high .
Speaker 4But then it comes with a crash where you feel guilty . After I would listen to the radio , I would feel so guilty that I'm going to get punished and I'm going to die and look at that .
Speaker 3You're still alive .
Speaker 1And you're doing better you ever were .
Speaker 4Yeah , that's right . So what's your favorite Geisha ?
Speaker 1song . What's your favorite Geisha song ?
Speaker 4Hit the road , jack , and don't you come back . No more , no more , no more , no more . Hit the road , jack , and don't you come back . No more . What you say , she's got it Beautiful . One of my favorites . It's a really fun song .
Speaker 3I mean your voice is insane .
Speaker 1your voice is insane . Her voice is insane , it's .
Speaker 3And now , don't forget , we're in a studio and I'm tone deaf this exactly , and even I can hear it so it's , and she could belt it's not the best acoustics because we know no no , but but people , people should understand .
Speaker 1When they go see your show , they're going to be seeing a powerhouse and it's amazing , it's amazing . So what ? What other songs are you like known for ? What's , what's , what's ? What's on the top that ? So when leo , when leo and I are in a theater somewhere and I'm looking at the audience like what should I do ? Give them the hits . Give them the hits . Start with that . What's your hits ? My hit , so initially that gets a huge hit , but it's more like at the end okay , um , there's .
Speaker 4Okay , there's also one . There's my the Nedvin song that I did . I have one song it's called Woman which is Every time Kills and is like what kind of song is that ? I wrote it . It's an original .
Speaker 1In English .
Speaker 4Yeah , look at that I am . English no .
Speaker 1Do you want to sing a little bit of it ?
Speaker 4I'll sing a little bit of it . Yeah , sure .
Speaker 1It's the Barbra Streisand's . I'm a Woman in Love , no it doesn't have anything to do with it . One of the best songs in the world . And I agree , it's one of the best songs in the world .
Speaker 3Barbra Streisand .
Speaker 1Which one .
Speaker 4I only know the one from her .
Speaker 1I am a woman in love .
Speaker 2I am a woman in love and I'll do anything .
Speaker 4Shame on me .
Speaker 2I don't know it .
Speaker 1No , that's a good song . You have to hear that song she hits . She's insane in that song .
Speaker 4I have so much songs to learn . I'm still learning , you know . Do you like Amy Winehouse ?
Speaker 3What does she sing ? We're going to . Yeah , sing , we're gonna . Yeah , well , you said , you said that you it's hard for you to get your mind blown . I'm gonna blow your mind after the show . There's something like very janice joplin about you I like that .
Speaker 1You're right , yes very , very .
Speaker 4I love janice she can .
Speaker 1She can lose it on stage . You can see when she's , like when janice joplin you ever see her perform . I .
Speaker 4I've never seen her . Oh my God Just wait Just .
Speaker 1Google YouTube . That , yeah , that's going to wow , wow , nice .
Speaker 3And Amy Amy Winehouse too , yeah .
Speaker 1Okay , so let me hear the song that you wrote , called Woman .
Speaker 4Here it goes they won't let me sing , cause I'm a woman . They won't let me dance , cause I'm a woman .
Speaker 5They won't let me speak . My mind Cause .
Speaker 4I'm a woman , they won't let me speak my mind . Cause I'm a woman , they won't let me do nothing at all , nothing at all .
Speaker 5Cause I'm a woman .
Speaker 4No , come on . They won't let me sing , cause I'm a woman . They won't let me dance . No , cause .
Speaker 5I'm a woman , they won't let me speak my mind . Cause I'm a woman , they won't let me do nothing at all , nothing at all , cause I'm a woman .
Speaker 4They won't let me do nothing at all , nothing at all , cause I'm a woman . But I will sing , cause I'm a woman , and I will dance , cause I'm a woman , and I will speak my mind , cause I'm a woman , and I'll do anything . I want anything , I want Cause .
Speaker 5I'm a woman . Yeah , I'm a woman .
Speaker 4Yeah , I'm a woman and I will sing Because I'm a woman , and I will dance Because I'm a woman , and I will dance Cause I'm a woman , and I will speak my mind Cause I'm a woman and I will do anything .
Speaker 5I want anything . I want Cause I'm a woman . I'm a woman , I'm a woman . Yeah , I'm a woman .
Speaker 1Bravo , bravo , no Bravo .
Speaker 4Bravo .
Speaker 1Bravo , bravo , bravo , bravo , bravo , bravo Bravo .
Speaker 2Bravo .
Speaker 3Bravo , bravo , bravo , bravo , bravo , bravo Bravo .
Speaker 1Bravo , bravo , bravo , bravo , bravo , nina Simone , oh , yes , yes , yes , yes so where can people find you on the interwebs ?
Speaker 4on the interwebs Ricky .
Speaker 1R-I-K-I Ricky underscore Rose right .
Speaker 4Ricky R-I-K-I underscore R-O-S-E . Sorry , it takes me a second to come back from that song , ricky Rose . It's like I enter a different dimension and I have to get back .
Speaker 1You saw she's back . I'm telling you it's a high . She's on a high You're incredible .
Speaker 4It's not even a high , it's like . It is high .
Speaker 1It's like you know adrenaline you need the adrenaline otherwise don't you want to be in an audience when this is happening , like an hour of this , an hour and a half of this hundred ? This is why the world needs to know that this gift exists no that's so . So now you're asking how do they find where you are , what you're doing ? And then I said R-I-K-I underscore Rose , right ?
Speaker 4That's the one .
Speaker 1That's the one and then from Instagram you can find her and DM her and she posts more and there's an album coming out Tell the Oylem .
Speaker 4There's an album coming out . The first song is already recorded and it's one of my favorite songs that I've ever written . It's called Utamaran and Utamaros . It means breathe in and breathe out . It's a song about breathing in Yiddish . Oh , can I hear a few bars ?
Speaker 1A few , I'm sorry . Oh , my God , you got me going Now you , oh my God , let's do it .
Speaker 4I can't not I have to do this . I'm so sorry . I have to check if my app is refilled . Okay , not yet , because the meter I parked it , oh , and I don't want to get a ticket , okay .
Speaker 1No dude , All right .
Speaker 4I still have time . So the breathing song we need to breathe for this .
Speaker 1We need to take a deep breath , always , always breathe .
Speaker 5When he feels with the house that's not those , put them around , and not to my rose . Then he feels with the belt . Is he grows with the , my nose breathing , and now , when you're both too big breathing it out when you have a panic . When your heart's a little scared , when you feel like you're going above the sound .
Speaker 4My head's working too slow . I feel like I'm in a warm house , when I feel like the mind is still , when I feel like something is missing , when I'm worried and I don't have any money . I feel like I'm out of my mind in the world when I feel like my heart is in two .
Speaker 5And no one can help me how I go when I don't feel like this .
Speaker 4I have a deep feeling .
Speaker 5When I feel like my heart is in two and I'm going out , and I'm going out .
Speaker 1When I feel like the world is so big and when it's like out of control , just breathe in and out , right ?
Speaker 4Yeah , that's a part of the song . It has another verse .
Speaker 3You have to come see you in real life to hear . It Is there also a website .
Speaker 1Is there also a website ?
Speaker 4there isn't yet , but I did buy the domain name rickyrosecom good for you good for you there will be . There will be one soon you are really incredible I'm so thrilled that you came on , are we ?
Speaker 3yeah , we're good , right , yes yeah , and I want to say something . You're not gonna love this , but I'm gonna going to say it .
Speaker 1Go ahead .
Speaker 3I'm saying this as a mother . I think that it is the responsibility of the parents to understand the child and not the other way around , yes , but also me .
Speaker 4I understand that this is my journey and that I my struggle is to have parents that don't understand me sure exactly you choose your parents before you come down . I don't like , blame them or have resentment , that's fine that's Mashiach and it's also not their fault , really , because they were . You know they're children of Holocaust survivors same and you know they've . They're very unaware as well . They're children of Holocaust survivors Same and you know , they've . They're very unaware as well . So they're not like they're not even present , they're like completely disassociated .
Speaker 3My grandparents also , like our entire family , was killed in the Holocaust , but my grandparents obviously survived and did speak Yiddish , and I'm sure that they would be kvelling to know that… .
Speaker 1Yiddish is amazing . There's a bunch of new singers , tursky , a young kid on… .
Speaker 4Oh , mendy Tursky . Yeah , wow , this is like the new age .
Speaker 1The new age of Yiddish music . I'm telling you , it's incredible .
Speaker 3What's Yiddish music that's so insane ? And with such a beat , it's incredible . What's his name Mendy .
Speaker 1I follow him on Instagram . I have more like an old school style , so do I , you know ?
Speaker 4what .
Speaker 2I mean .
Speaker 3So the younger generation .
Speaker 4I don't know how much . No , no , no , but this is incredible .
Speaker 3I'm telling you , as somebody who is not of this world but came from this world , that to listen to you , it's like you're bringing this to a whole younger generation and you're keeping this alive , and it's really incredible .
Speaker 1Yeah , but this is for a younger generation . The older generations love to hear the classics . What's your favorite Yiddish song ? We'll finish with that . What's your favorite Alta Yiddish song ? We'll finish with that . What's your favorite song ?
Speaker 4like one of those bells , what are the ?
Speaker 1what are the old , old , old songs ?
Speaker 4like the yontavirlich stuff . Do you know the yontavirlich songs ? Which one like or the um the nature .
Speaker 1Yeah , no , you don't know any of those .
Speaker 4I guess they're more Hasidic . That's the stuff I grew up with . No , but I also listen to that too .
Speaker 1I also listen to that too . Some of the Yiddish songs , like the bells oh , those I didn't really grow up listening to . I heard you sing . Don't tell me I heard you sing on your Instagram You're singing Gliknu . Oh yeah , mazel , es scheint amol far jeden Far vojden or nisht far mil .
Speaker 2Mazel , ich steh tamo .
Speaker 4Bringst da jeden freden Far , vos far , zumst du mein T .
Speaker 2Oh , wie es tut , bang an jede show .
Speaker 1Oh , that's so good . So you do have those songs in your .
Speaker 4I know this . I learned later . I learned this song like three years ago , so this is all new stuff for me . Really , we grew up with that . That's the .
Speaker 1Yiddish songs we grew up with and then I discovered album Freedom Work . I've been David and like there's one song that I can't get out of my head . You know I'm going to put it on the podcast , if anybody . So we grew up in the house we had a record player and we used to have the songs from Elal . Did you have those albums , elal ? The Israeli Elan had albums Shirei Chassidim and they were like women singing , like beautiful songs , but , like you know , in Yiddish . No , I don't know why they call it Shirei Chassidim . They weren't . They were just like Israeli songs In Hebrew yeah .
Speaker 1Yeah , but there was one song , oh wow , I can't remember . It keeps popping back into my head and I just can't even figure out where it came from . Not Mabrech , never mind , it's too far out there , but that's it . Never mind , it's too far out there , but that's it .
Speaker 4If it's in Hebraic , I for sure don't know it . Yeah , you weren't allowed to listen to any Hebraic songs in Hebrew .
Speaker 2Why not ?
Speaker 3Aviv . Okay , so the song .
Speaker 1this is the song . This is the song he's talking about , the 1970s album . I don't know . No , I don't know .
Speaker 3Don't your parents still have it ?
Speaker 1We still have it , I'm going to plug in the thing .
Speaker 3Take a picture of the record and we'll find it .
Speaker 2Okay , I'm going to try this , okay , of the record , and we'll find it . Avino Abarachaman . Okay , I'm going to try this . Avino Abarachaman Ha'merachem Rachem , aleinu , v'tein , be'libeinu , b'na , le'avin , le'avin , ve'lishkoach , l'ilmodu Le'lamet .
Speaker 1That's why it keeps coming to me To free the imprisoned and the .
Speaker 2That's why it keeps coming to me To free the imprisoned . That's why that song keeps coming to me .
Speaker 1The fact that you remember all of those words . I don't know who wrote the song or where it is , but if you do , that again I can Shazam you .
Speaker 4You can Shazam someone singing and it comes up .
Speaker 1No , it's going to Shazam you Just singing . It's going to say free Palestine .
Speaker 3Okay , we have to finish up I cannot thank you enough for coming on .
Speaker 1Shea Feller , you are a neshama , you are a soul , you are . I wish you nothing but mashiach , energy and atzlacha . And people should be so lucky to go and see you at a show , and whoever she's performing with is going to be amazing too . Leah Forrester right .
Speaker 5Yeah .
Speaker 1And who else do you perform with ?
Speaker 5With the… .
Speaker 1Your sister , my god the sister , my niece . Next level .
Speaker 4They're also amazing .
Speaker 1You and your sister are like the Barry sisters . You've heard of them , right ?
Speaker 4yes , so that's you know , unbelievable , like the Hasidic version I want to go to a concert is there anything coming up ? Right now I'm booked with a lot of private gigs for the next . You know the country , so this month I'm like pretty fully booked and I don't have time to do my own show . That's what she's telling me so I'm gonna wait till like September , october and I don't have time and the Catskills , that's what she's telling you . So I'm going to wait till like September , october .
Speaker 1And those are shows you can't just go to . You have to be who she's performing for you have to be invited .
Speaker 3You have to understand the concept of a private show .
Speaker 1Thank you , guys no .
Speaker 4But then . But I'm going to see ricky rose .
Speaker 3She was on the podcast with me , I'll put on a schnitzel . What is it called ?
Speaker 1it could be very sexy don't underestimate the schnitzel okay so I I so that ricky rose , ricky r I k . I underscore rose on instagram . Get in with her , find out where she's at and post more of you singing and post more of where you're going to be . Imodilivecom we have sold out the 19th of December at the Beacon . The 18th is almost sold out . We have same opportunity . I know where . I'm going I know Just Modilive , modilivecom .
Speaker 3Can ? I'm going .
Speaker 1I know Just Modi Live , modi Livecom . Can I ?
Speaker 4say something about your show .
Speaker 2No , go ahead .
Speaker 4It was so amazing , I went to your show in East Hampton , or whatever , west Hampton .
Speaker 1West Hampton .
Speaker 4And it was so good . I felt like I wasn't my crowd . It was , like you know , hampton people . I'm never there , but I still laughed so much like all these jokes . It was so good .
Speaker 1Thank you so much , amazing thank you , thank you so much . Thank you . Thank you um motorilifecom . There's tickets that are uh available . We have another Montreal November 30th and December 1st . We added a show , so those of you in Montreal which is Montreal . Montreal was one of the best places Mashiach Energy City and there's tickets everywhere . Please look for tickets near you or a friend near you and send it to them modilivecom . And thank you , periel , and thank you again for singing and just bringing Mashiach Energy here . Thank you .
Speaker 4Shkoyach , shkoyach .