Benny Friedman

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🗓️ 7 June 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Born in Minneapolis, MN to a family of Chabad Shluchim, Benny Friedman began his musical career at the age of 13 singing for locals around the neighborhood. Recognizing the power of music and it’s ability to inspire, he dedicated many hours to vocal training and perfecting his art.

Benny Friedman’s talent was quickly recognized throughout the Jewish world and his music career took off with his first album release in 2009. His popularity rose and soon the demand for his presence at events, weddings, concerts skyrocketed.

Since then, he has released many more albums and some of the Jewish music scene’s most popular songs including ‘Ivri Anochi’, ‘Yesh Tikvah’, and ‘Charasho’.

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0:00.0	In this week's episode we got to sit down with the world-renowned Jewish singer Benny Friedman.
0:06.0	Benny Freeman, you guys probably know.
0:08.0	If not, that means you're not one of the 17 million people who watched Ivrii Anichae on YouTube. He has millions of views, millions
0:16.0	of people around the world know him. He has traveled the world and continues to travel the world,
0:19.4	singing by weddings, concerts, and nowadays, or whenever you're listening to this, this was during the quarantine. weddings concerts and
0:24.3	during the quarantine corona period doing Zoom concerts and Zoom bar mitzas and
0:27.4	Zoom weddings.
0:28.4	He has a lot of experience and he got to tell us about some of his stories, some of his struggles
0:35.8	that he had to go through and what it means to be a Jewish singer and the impact he has on so
0:41.8	many people. And he also singing by my wedding
0:44.3	unrelated you don't need to know that fact but now you do and Benny is actually one of
0:48.6	14 his uncle is Auburn freed there's so much you can get from this
0:53.7	cousins are eighth day.
0:55.2	His cousins are eighth day.
0:56.1	There's a lot of useless there.
0:58.1	His father is Raimonestriano's stream and a huge rabbi
1:00.5	who also gets millions of views on YouTube
1:02.4	on a lot of his stuff.
1:03.6	So this is a loaded episode.
1:06.0	If you do know Benny Freeman, you'll appreciate the depth of where we go with him and
1:12.4	what we talk about. And if you don't know him then enjoy finding out more about him.
1:19.8	Welcome to the Meaningful People Podcast the podcast where we talk to people who are meaningful.
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