Birth name Josh Dolgin Music group Abraham Inc. Education McGill University Name Josh Dolgin | Years active 2003-present Instruments Piano, accordion Genres Hip hop music, Klezmer | |
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Origin Montreal, Quebec, Canada Occupation(s) Rapper, record producer Labels Piranha Musik, Label Bleu, Dare to Care Records Role Rapper ยท socalledmusic.com Albums Ghetto Blaster, The Season, Hiphopkhasene Similar People David Krakauer, Katie Moore, Fred Wesley, Sophie Solomon, Theodore Bikel Profiles | ||
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Josh Dolgin, better known by his stage name Socalled, is a Canadian rapper and record producer, known for his eclectic mix of hip hop, klezmer, and other styles such as drum & bass and folk music. A pianist and accordion player, he has taught the latter at Klezfest London, where he has also run workshops in "hiphopkele". He has played with clarinetist David Krakauer's Klezmer Madness!, and has also worked with artists such as rapper C-Rayz Walz, Chilly Gonzales, funk trombonist Fred Wesley, and Sophie Solomon. Dolgin has Ukrainian, Romanian and Russian roots.
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Dolgin's Socalled collective and guests celebrated the Jewish Festival of Lights with the seasonal concert "Hip Hop Hanukkah" in 2007. He is the subject of The "Socalled" Movie, a documentary released in 2010 by Garry Beitel for the National Film Board of Canada, which also features Krakauer and Wesley. The documentary includes footage of the first "Klezmer Cruise", in which a boatload of klezmer fans sailed down the Dnieper River in Ukraine.
In 2013, his remix of Moe Koffman's "Curried Soul" became the new theme music for CBC Radio One's As It Happens.
He is openly gay.