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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 1:They 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 4:Nice to meet you.
Speaker 1:Okay, so listen like this the first time I met you you do you remember where it was?
Speaker 1:um, 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 1:Like 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 4:Rahim no.
Speaker 1:Could be Rahim. No, or it could have been Pinchik's Ruzza de Shabbos.
Speaker 4:I think it was Rachem. No, because somebody recorded that video and posted it online.
Speaker 1:Okay, this is a hundred years ago by the way.
Speaker 3:Well, let's hear it.
Speaker 1:Oh, from Ricky? No, give us the Rachem.
Speaker 4:No.
Speaker 3:Yeah but closer to the mic.
Speaker 1:This is a piece. This is Yoselokuk Okay, go ahead. I. This is Yosela Cook. Okay, go ahead, I'll tell you who.
Speaker 3:After Just make sure when you sing you're close to that, so that our listeners don't complain.
Speaker 4:Ah, complaining, rakhim eno Adusha melekeinu.
Speaker 5:Al Yisroel hamechom.
Speaker 4:Ve'al Yerushalayim yirechom.
Speaker 5:Ve'al etzion mishkan kevod echom Shabbat shalom.
Speaker 4:Thank you very much. Wow, Isn't that amazing.
Speaker 1:And 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 3:And.
Speaker 1:I 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 3:What 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 1:No.
Speaker 3:Well, I don't know what.
Speaker 4:MTV is Exactly Okay. Is it like a TV network?
Speaker 1:It was a TV network. Yeah, they used to have videos of music.
Speaker 3:We were not allowed. No, please tell us what is going on.
Speaker 1:No, no, I want to talk about what she's doing now. Okay.
Speaker 2:Her story is interesting.
Speaker 1:She grew up in a Hasidic home. Yo Hasidic home. No, Give us a little background.
Speaker 4:I grew up Hasidic.
Speaker 1:No, which kind of?
Speaker 4:Hasidic 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 1:The sons of Yoil.
Speaker 4:So they are only with the old Rebbe, kind of like the Meshachistan with Chabad. You know what that is.
Speaker 2:Okay, let's just say I do. Is this enough for you? It's so interesting.
Speaker 1:Of course I know the Mashiach they're not like the Mashiachist.
Speaker 4:They 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 1:But to the point. She in the house grew up speaking Yiddish.
Speaker 4:Yeah, 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 1:Do 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 4:I 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 1:So 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 4:No, 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 1:I'm not like that there's no introversion whatsoever when I'm on stage, I come alive even more yeah.
Speaker 3:And did you always know this? Even as like a little girl?
Speaker 4:Always knew it. I started singing before I was speaking.
Speaker 1:So 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 3:would sing this when I was like three years old. Nisht is nothing, no.
Speaker 1:And I'm still singing it Lidog. Nothing to worry about. Don't worry basically.
Speaker 4:Don't worry, Jews.
Speaker 1:And 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 4:Tanya Right.
Speaker 1:All 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 4:It'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 1:position.
Speaker 3:No, it's okay.
Speaker 1:Those of you who know she's sitting while she's doing this.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you need to stand and move around for this.
Speaker 1:We can fix that. No, it's okay, you can stand Okay.
Speaker 4:You want to stand? I don't know you should sit, you should stand.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 5:Let's use this. A sweet dream.
Speaker 1:I've seen.
Speaker 4:In the third temple.
Speaker 5:I was.
Speaker 1:The priest for bringing the sacrifices.
Speaker 5:The Levites are singing.
Speaker 1:Moshe 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 5:All 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 4: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, don't worry.
Speaker 3:Don't worry, don oh my God.
Speaker 1:Thank 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 3:It's a Mashiach energy song.
Speaker 1:It's a Mashiach song Period, Ricky. I just want to tell you something?
Speaker 3:Yeah, 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 1:I 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 4:ever heard him no.
Speaker 1:Amazing 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 4:Yeah, 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 1:It's crazy.
Speaker 4:It'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 1:Right, 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 1:You'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 4:Sure.
Speaker 1:I don't know it so well. You don't know it.
Speaker 4:I know it, but like not well enough to rip it out.
Speaker 1:You 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 1:It 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 1:She was a guest a while ago, like early episodes, uh, in different studios without mr Fancy Couch and.
Speaker 4:Leia and I go way back.
Speaker 1:Yes, leia Forrester, also a performer.
Speaker 3:Amazing.
Speaker 1:Amazing. 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 4:you 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 1:With a positive note.
Speaker 4:With 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 3:So tell us a little bit, give the audience like a little bit of the story of what.
Speaker 1:Maybe through one of the songs.
Speaker 4:So this is one of the songs. It's called the Chatzitim and the Nervim. Do you know what that means?
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 4:Chatzitim 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 1:In Hebrew, In Yiddish, you just need.
Speaker 4:That'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 3:He says he sees the guy in the waiting room.
Speaker 4:He 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 1:are you yelling for? Are you crazy? I mean, he's like he's good, but you nah, I get it. I get it.
Speaker 4:Oh no, so that's how the song starts.
Speaker 2:No, go ahead.
Speaker 4:I 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 5:What are you doing with your nerves?
Speaker 4:My 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 5:I have tea with the nerves. I have tea with the nerves.
Speaker 4:I 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 1:It's amazing. It's amazing. Good for you, but you understand it's amazing.
Speaker 3:So it almost feels like you don't even really have to understand Yiddish or all the words.
Speaker 1:You got two of the words. You can understand everything else.
Speaker 3:Yeah, 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 1:What was the Hebrew word? The therapist Psychiatry.
Speaker 3:Psychiat, therapist.
Speaker 1:Psychiater.
Speaker 2:Psychiater. Psychiater.
Speaker 4:They said it was mitter, it was okay.
Speaker 1:Half of Yiddish is Hebrew. It was mature Mutar.
Speaker 3:I 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 4:so 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 1:Oh, your dad has a sense of humor.
Speaker 4:Yeah, an abusive sense of humor.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, yeah.
Speaker 4:I didn't get that.
Speaker 3:Oh, I was like, oh, okay. It's that your father said you were crazy.
Speaker 4:It'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 4:And 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 4:That'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 1:From 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 4:Yes, I got a song out of it and it's a crazy good song.
Speaker 1:It's a crazy good song, so Baruch Hashem.
Speaker 4:Baruch Hashem.
Speaker 1:Baruch Hashem, thank God I don't really like.
Speaker 4:I don't. I'm very happy with everything that I went through. Yeah, like I didn't have a hard life.
Speaker 1:I'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 3:God bless your man.
Speaker 1:So maybe if my parents gave me a harder upbringing I would have been funnier or something. Probably, not, probably, not Probably not Listen.
Speaker 3:I 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 3:Because 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 4:Probably am I right yeah, I do put a tichel on when I go to see the family.
Speaker 1:So 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 3:I do know a Yiddish word she knows.
Speaker 1:By 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 4:Oh, I don't know who that is. No, sorry.
Speaker 1:She was an actress. I'm going to tell you what she is.
Speaker 5:I'm going to explain you. I'm going to explain you, you're going to explain me.
Speaker 1:I'm going to explain you what grammar, what's grammar in the world?
Speaker 3:That's amazing.
Speaker 1:Elizabeth 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 3:So she's like this tichel, she's like a tichel yeah, yeah, she wears like and so, but she was very glamorous.
Speaker 1:Leo 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 4:A 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 1:What's a schnitzel Is?
Speaker 3:that like a piece of chicken? No, it looks like a piece of chicken.
Speaker 1:It's when they cover their hair with, like a thicker thing with a hat attached to it.
Speaker 4:It'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 3:What if you?
Speaker 4:don'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 1:Wow, what's he missing?
Speaker 4:It'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 1:About to get there they your sister, and you are amazing, your sister, and you are amazing, and you also with this rabbi.
Speaker 4:Oh Rabisha.
Speaker 1:Rabisha, oh yeah, who came to my show in the Hamptons?
Speaker 4:She's the best.
Speaker 1:I 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 4:Rabisha's been very good to me. She's. Yeah, so risha's been very good to me.
Speaker 3:She's I'm living with her in long island.
Speaker 4:Great. Where did you grow up? Did you grow up in new york, um?
Speaker 3:I 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 1:yeah, 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 4:Zaidi.
Speaker 1:Zaidul.
Speaker 3:Zaidul, maybe Wait a second.
Speaker 1:Anyway, 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 4:Okay, so this is what I'm going to say you don't have to if you're staying in your community, stop.
Speaker 3:Everybody 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 4:It's pretty wild.
Speaker 3:It's wild.
Speaker 4:But 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 3:First of all, I love, I'm stinking bitch.
Speaker 1:But I'm proof that you could know both. Yes, exactly, you can also know both, yeah.
Speaker 4:You know what I appreciate.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 4:The culture shock and the finding out stuff.
Speaker 3:Right, that's what I was about to say People don't get that.
Speaker 4:And 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 3:I know everything. You definitely don't know everything.
Speaker 4:I'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 4:I 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 3:How old were you.
Speaker 4:I 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 1:Let 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 4:I was naigereg.
Speaker 1:Naigereg. Okay, no, go ahead.
Speaker 4:I was naigereg.
Speaker 1:So 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 4:so 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 4:no, 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 1:The best part of the story is the way she pronounced Hannah Montana, what did?
Speaker 4:I say Hannah Montana, hannah Montana. Yeah, you said it perfectly. You couldn't have said it better.
Speaker 1:You said it exactly the way it should be said Mojdeh, mojdeh.
Speaker 4:So 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 4:You 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 2:Chasing the high.
Speaker 1:Chasing the high it's like a high.
Speaker 4:But 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 3:You're still alive.
Speaker 1:And you're doing better you ever were.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that's right. So what's your favorite Geisha?
Speaker 1:song. What's your favorite Geisha song?
Speaker 4:Hit 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 3:I mean your voice is insane.
Speaker 1:your voice is insane. Her voice is insane, it's.
Speaker 3:And 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 1:When 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 4:Okay, 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 1:In English.
Speaker 4:Yeah, look at that I am. English no.
Speaker 1:Do you want to sing a little bit of it?
Speaker 4:I'll sing a little bit of it. Yeah, sure.
Speaker 1:It'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 3:Barbra Streisand.
Speaker 1:Which one.
Speaker 4:I only know the one from her.
Speaker 1:I am a woman in love.
Speaker 2:I am a woman in love and I'll do anything.
Speaker 4:Shame on me.
Speaker 2:I don't know it.
Speaker 1:No, that's a good song. You have to hear that song she hits. She's insane in that song.
Speaker 4:I have so much songs to learn. I'm still learning, you know. Do you like Amy Winehouse?
Speaker 3:What 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 1:You're right, yes very, very.
Speaker 4:I love janice she can.
Speaker 1:She can lose it on stage. You can see when she's, like when janice joplin you ever see her perform. I.
Speaker 4:I've never seen her. Oh my God Just wait Just.
Speaker 1:Google YouTube. That, yeah, that's going to wow, wow, nice.
Speaker 3:And Amy Amy Winehouse too, yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay, so let me hear the song that you wrote, called Woman.
Speaker 4:Here 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 5:They won't let me speak. My mind Cause.
Speaker 4:I'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 5:Cause I'm a woman.
Speaker 4:No, come on. They won't let me sing, cause I'm a woman. They won't let me dance. No, cause.
Speaker 5:I'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 4:They 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 5:I'm a woman. Yeah, I'm a woman.
Speaker 4:Yeah, 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 5:I want anything. I want Cause I'm a woman. I'm a woman, I'm a woman. Yeah, I'm a woman.
Speaker 1:Bravo, bravo, no Bravo.
Speaker 4:Bravo.
Speaker 1:Bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo Bravo.
Speaker 2:Bravo.
Speaker 3:Bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo Bravo.
Speaker 1:Bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, nina Simone, oh, yes, yes, yes, yes so where can people find you on the interwebs?
Speaker 4:on the interwebs Ricky.
Speaker 1:R-I-K-I Ricky underscore Rose right.
Speaker 4:Ricky 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 1:You saw she's back. I'm telling you it's a high. She's on a high You're incredible.
Speaker 4:It's not even a high, it's like. It is high.
Speaker 1:It'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 4:That's the one.
Speaker 1:That'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 4:There'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 1:A few, I'm sorry. Oh, my God, you got me going Now you, oh my God, let's do it.
Speaker 4:I 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 1:No dude, All right.
Speaker 4:I still have time. So the breathing song we need to breathe for this.
Speaker 1:We need to take a deep breath, always, always breathe.
Speaker 5:When 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 4:My 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 5:And no one can help me how I go when I don't feel like this.
Speaker 4:I have a deep feeling.
Speaker 5:When I feel like my heart is in two and I'm going out, and I'm going out.
Speaker 1:When I feel like the world is so big and when it's like out of control, just breathe in and out, right?
Speaker 4:Yeah, that's a part of the song. It has another verse.
Speaker 3:You have to come see you in real life to hear. It Is there also a website.
Speaker 1:Is there also a website?
Speaker 4:there 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 3:yeah, 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 1:Go ahead.
Speaker 3:I'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 4:I 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 3:My 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 1:Yiddish is amazing. There's a bunch of new singers, tursky, a young kid on….
Speaker 4:Oh, mendy Tursky. Yeah, wow, this is like the new age.
Speaker 1:The new age of Yiddish music. I'm telling you, it's incredible.
Speaker 3:What's Yiddish music that's so insane? And with such a beat, it's incredible. What's his name Mendy.
Speaker 1:I follow him on Instagram. I have more like an old school style, so do I, you know?
Speaker 4:what.
Speaker 2:I mean.
Speaker 3:So the younger generation.
Speaker 4:I don't know how much. No, no, no, but this is incredible.
Speaker 3:I'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 1:Yeah, 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 4:like one of those bells, what are the?
Speaker 1:what are the old, old, old songs?
Speaker 4:like the yontavirlich stuff. Do you know the yontavirlich songs? Which one like or the um the nature.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, you don't know any of those.
Speaker 4:I guess they're more Hasidic. That's the stuff I grew up with. No, but I also listen to that too.
Speaker 1:I 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 2:Mazel, ich steh tamo.
Speaker 4:Bringst da jeden freden Far, vos far, zumst du mein T.
Speaker 2:Oh, wie es tut, bang an jede show.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's so good. So you do have those songs in your.
Speaker 4:I 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 1:Yiddish 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 1:Yeah, 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 4:If 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 2:Why not?
Speaker 3:Aviv. Okay, so the song.
Speaker 1:this is the song. This is the song he's talking about, the 1970s album. I don't know. No, I don't know.
Speaker 3:Don't your parents still have it?
Speaker 1:We still have it, I'm going to plug in the thing.
Speaker 3:Take a picture of the record and we'll find it.
Speaker 2:Okay, 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 1:That's why it keeps coming to me To free the imprisoned and the.
Speaker 2:That's why it keeps coming to me To free the imprisoned. That's why that song keeps coming to me.
Speaker 1:The 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 4:You can Shazam someone singing and it comes up.
Speaker 1:No, it's going to Shazam you Just singing. It's going to say free Palestine.
Speaker 3:Okay, we have to finish up I cannot thank you enough for coming on.
Speaker 1:Shea 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 5:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And who else do you perform with?
Speaker 5:With the….
Speaker 1:Your sister, my god the sister, my niece. Next level.
Speaker 4:They're also amazing.
Speaker 1:You and your sister are like the Barry sisters. You've heard of them, right?
Speaker 4:yes, 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 1:And those are shows you can't just go to. You have to be who she's performing for you have to be invited.
Speaker 3:You have to understand the concept of a private show.
Speaker 1:Thank you, guys no.
Speaker 4:But then. But I'm going to see ricky rose.
Speaker 3:She was on the podcast with me, I'll put on a schnitzel. What is it called?
Speaker 1:it 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 3:Can? I'm going.
Speaker 1:I know Just Modi Live, modi Livecom. Can I?
Speaker 4:say something about your show.
Speaker 2:No, go ahead.
Speaker 4:It was so amazing, I went to your show in East Hampton, or whatever, west Hampton.
Speaker 1:West Hampton.
Speaker 4:And 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 1:Thank 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 4:Shkoyach, shkoyach.