Birth name Yehudah Werdyger Name Yeedle Werdyger Labels Yeedle | Years active 1994 – present Occupation(s) Vocalist, Role Singer | |
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Yeedle werdyger pinky weber and yumy lowy singing al achas kama v kama richter bm
Yehudah "Yeedle" Werdyger (born 1971) is an American Hasidic Jewish singer. He is the son of singer Mordechai Werdyger (stage name: Mordechai Ben David) and grandson of renowned cantor David Werdyger.
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- Yeedle werdyger pinky weber and yumy lowy singing al achas kama v kama richter bm
- Singer yeedle werdyger singing the new aneinu richter bar mitzvah
- Genre
- Production
- Family
- Main albums
- Collaboration albums
- References
Yeedle (Yiddish; יידל ) is a Yiddish nickname for the Hebrew name Yehudah (Heb. יהודה / יהודא )
Singer yeedle werdyger singing the new aneinu richter bar mitzvah
Genre
Werdyger's songs and music may be considered Contemporary Hasidic. The music used in his first two albums was generically similar to the Hasidic performers of the early 1990s, with noticeable electric guitar interludes.
With his third album, Shiru Lamelech, Werdyger placed emphasis on using acoustic guitar in a more country music and kumzitz fashion.
Keeping up with technology, Werdyger released his fifth album, Lev Echad, with much innovation. The music genre was more funk with compositions by Rabbi Akiva Homnick, Aharon Razel, and Werdyger cowriting with Eli Laufer. Sound and digital effects on this album were engineered by Eli Leshinsky.
Using Lenticular printing, the CD cover of Lev Echad showed Hasidic men dancing on a colorful background. Parallel to the music CD, Werdyger released the music tracks with visual video animation depicting himself singing the album's songs. The animation was created by artist Peretz Schmukler.
Production
Werdyger has produced his father's albums starting from 2001; albums produced include:
Werdyger assisted in the production of HD video and song "Unity For Justice" performed by MBD together with Avraham Fried and 30 famous Jewish singers. This song was created and performed in solidarity with Sholom Rubashkin, in protest of injustice in his widely publicized case in the USA.
Family
Werdyger is the son of Mordechai Ben David and grandson of David Werdyger. His uncle Mendy is also a singer and owner of the Jewish record label Aderet Records and music retail store Mostly Music. Yeedle was reported to senior Halachic authorities in Israel and Chassidic Rebbes for having extramarital sex with a religious married mother of five from London at the Avenue Plaza Hotel, Brooklyn in September 2008. His cousin Yisroel Werdyger (son of Mendy) is also a singer.