Can you take us through the moment where we almost didn't have Shlamey Dax?

It was during the summer. I was in the country in Woodridge, New York on a Friday afternoon.

And suddenly, I began to put my tiling on. And my wife tells me, Shlimi, why are you davening?

So I said, what do you mean? It's Shachros. I didn't

daven yet. And I thought I was in the Agudne Avenue well where I dabbin by Rabbi Leif in Brooklyn.

And here I am in the country. And she realized something is going on. My mind, I just, something was

wrong. So Friday night, Hatzalah came, and they realized that I had a slight tumor in the back of my head.

Shlamey Dax is behind some of the most important parts of Jewish music in the world.

Of course, we addressed his photo he used for like 30 years and his personal connection to so many legends,

but we also dive into things you probably

don't know, like his near-death experience and how it changes life or his parents' divorce and how it shaped his own life. This episode is jam-packed and wait for my message at the very end. This episode is a memory of Shimon David bin Yaakov Shlema as well as Miriam Sarabas Yaakov-Mosh. This episode is Rufua Shlema, Yosef Chaim, bin Devorah, Goulda.

This episode is powered by Wheels to Lise, sprinkles ice cream, and admire. Here we go. Shlemme Dax, many, many years of singing and being in the singing world, and there's a lot to talk about, but a lot of stories about you that people don't know. So I want to go into all of that, but first, could you take us through your childhood? Like, maybe where did the singing begin? Thank you first of all for having me. Sure. This is many years in the making. We started talking about this interview quite a long time ago. That is very true. This is very honored. I'm very honored and humbling to be here.

It really is. It all started really, my mother, seeing that as a very young child, I was very musical,

singing, before I even spoke sentences, I was singing tunes, and she says I was carrying tunes as a very young child,

always taking the spoons on the forks and banging, and she saw that I had music in me from a very young age.

And that's where it started. She enrolled me in choirs. I was in Sliva Zemmer Boys Choir, Amudayshish voice choir, Miami Boys Choir,

and I even had a small stint in Muncie Boys' Choir, and I sang on 613 Turra Avenue,

Bamidvar and Devarim, I sang on the country Yassi and the Schiebelhoppers, the famous song, but then he

patched me. I won't get into the lyrics that the lyrics that they were that I had to learn this song. And I look back and I wonder, like, how did I even have time to be in Yeshiva and do, and how did I pass my test? I don't know. But I looked back and I had a very, really, a lot of childhood memories of singing.

I got to sing for the Lababachereba twice with Silva Zemmer, Ganyas Troll Boys Choir.

So I started really young.

Do you ever look back and think like a lot of your childhood went towards singing that like

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