Matisyahu
Matisyahu
Matthew Paul Miller, known by his Hebrew and stage name Matisyahu, is a Jewish American reggae vocalist, beatboxer, and alternative rock musician...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth30 June 1979
CountryUnited States of America
black-and-white different world
We're so quick to go to make things black and white, and to put things in their box. But everything is this mixture - and that's what this world is - is this blend of different things.
religious real party
There is an assumption if you are not religious, you have fallen, or you are further from God, or you are not doing the right thing. The judgment on me, with regard to my changes, is that he must be out all night partying or banging prostitutes and doing blow. This whole thing for me was absolutely the contrary. It was actually that God started to become very real to me, inside.
song opinion let-me
Everyone's right or wrong, Everyone's got an opinion, put them in a song and let me keep on living.
thinking sight people
I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and they lose sight of humanity. Being human has to come first before right or wrong.
digging shows i-can
I can show you where to dig, and what to dig for, but the digging you must do for yourself.
coming immersed movies music recording secular spent
In 2004, when I started recording my first CD, I was coming right out of yeshiva. So I had spent two years completely immersed in the Hasidic culture, disconnected completely from the secular world - movies, music, people.
actual chosen cut dressed ideas interact morning opposite people rules side
In Judaism, there are a lot of rules - everything from which fingernail you cut first to which side you sleep on in bed, to the way you get dressed in the morning, to actual ideas, like ideas about being chosen people or ideas about female/male and how to interact with people from the opposite sex.
beat expert people
I'm not an expert in instruments, beat programming, or electronics. For some people it's all about doing it themselves. But for me, it's all about find the people that can help make my vision come true.
music people trying
The kind of music I'm trying to make is conscious, to make people think and feel and get inspired.
becoming feed fully ideas integrated jewish normal
The Jewish world is becoming fully integrated with the ideas of the normal world. They feed off each other.
beat beats became circle creative guy high mine outlet rhymes school sort
I started out with friends of mine in high school beat boxing. Everyone would sort of like be in a circle making up rhymes and raps, you know. That was like the creative outlet for my friends. And I became the sort of the guy that made the beats, like did the beats with my mouth.
became bob came music natural reggae singing spoke
I got into Bob Marley, I got into reggae music. And that music just spoke to me and so it just became natural that when I started writing lyrics, and started singing them, they came out in that way.
hockey ice loved
I loved ice hockey. I used to play ice hockey. So, you know I wanted to be a hockey player.
cool dad laid mom
They flipped. I mean, my dad was pretty cool about it actually. He was much more laid back about it. And mom really -- she really had a breakdown.