I’m back on ROI for the second time! It’s more organized than ever this year and lastnight we threw the Innovate Your Booty party with Jewlicious and Oleh! Records. Shmoo, the amazing French Hasidic Rapper, and Sagol 59 both joined Diwon on stage for some amazing improv and displays of original hip hop. For info on applying to ROI next year, check out roi120.com. For a few photos, scroll down.
Shmoo & Sagol 59
Erez & Jonah with ROI badges and Sephardic Music Festival T-Shirts!
Nina Safar in the Jerusalem sts
Shemspeed is an independent recording label and promotional agency highlighting cross-over music artists with positive and unifying messages. Founded by Erez Safar, an American-Israeli DJ/Producer, Shemspeed promotes over 15 dynamic artists representing a wide range of genres including hip-hop, reggae, and rock. These artists include Y-Love (revolutionary Jewish hip-hop), Diwon (Yemenite / Sephardic hip-hop, Israeli music and more), DeScribe (soul-awakening dancehall, hip-hop, & soul), and Electro Morocco (Israeli rock, dance music.) Shemspeed artists, collectively showcasing the diversity in world Jewish music, have performed with musicians as varied as Snoop Dogg, Lou Reed, Idan Raichel and Eminem; they’ve been profiled in Rolling Stone, SPIN, The New York Times and XXL; and they’ve been seen and heard around the world on various TV appearances (Conan O’Brien, CBS and BBC World) and global radio. Shemspeed’s mission is unifying people through culture and education, celebrating diversity and common ground. By way of this work, we add a public Jewish voice to multi-cultural, inter-faith, creative and collaborative bridge-building.
