New York, NY –
Y-Studs A Cappella (Yeshiva Students)
This holiday season, the emerging all-male group from Upper Manhattan collaboratedwith award-winning A Cappella guru, Shams Ahmed, to produce a vocal amalgamation unforeseen to this point in the growing realm of Jewish A Cappella.
By collaborating with some of the best A Cappella producers in the world, the group has constructed a masterpiece coalescing an exhilarating audio track with stirring visuals that contextualizes the billboard-topping “Chainsmokers’” original lyrics in a religious light. Watch as this group of young men in fresh blue and white thank god for never having let his people down and know that he will always have their backs as he did when he performed the miracles of Hanukkah!
This might be the most inventive “Chainsmokers” cover you’ve seen yet. Make the Y-Studs your aca-choice this Hanukkah! Watch their groundbreaking new video .
About Y-Studs A Cappella
Y-Studs gained international attention in 2015 with their release of an A Cappella cover video of Gad Elbaz’s “Hashem Melech” (based on Khaled’s “C’est la vie”). Watch it here . They followed up with “Seder”, a Passover-inspired parody of Michael Jackson’s Thriller, which received well over a million views on social media and was covered by CBS, Time, and more. Watch Seder here .
Y-Studs A Cappella: Akiva Abramowitz, Jared Ehrenreich, Josh Eisenberg, Uri Garber,
Yoni Gelfand, Jonathan Green, Michael Lefkovits, Jake Litwin, Ari Mandelbaum, Gedalia
Penner, Kevin Perlitsh, Nathaniel Ribner, Eitan Rubin, and Ilan Swartz-Brownstein.
Music and original lyrics of “Don’t Let Me Down” by Andrew Taggart, Emily Warren and Scott Harris.
Music and original lyrics of “Closer” by Andrew Taggart, Ashley Frangipane, Shaun Frank, Frederic Kennett, Isaac Slade and Joe King
Adapted “Closer” lyrics written by Jonathan Green, Nathaniel Ribner, Gedalia Penner, Jared Ehrenreich, Ari Mandelbaum
Arranged by Shams Ahmed
Lead vocals performed by Jake Litwin, Michael Lefkovits, Uri Garber, Eitan Rubin, Gedalia Penner
Recorded by Mordy Weinstein
Edited by Jeff Eames
Mixed by Ed Boyer
Mastered by Dave Sperandio
Produced by Jonathan Green, Ilan Swartz-Brownstein, Eitan Rubin, Nathaniel Ribner, Gedalia Penner
Video shot, directed, edited and produced by
Shlomo Weprin – Shlomotions – http://www.shlomotions.com
Assistant Directors: Torrey Wigfield, Eitan Rubin, Jonathan Green