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Gedalya: 2/7/15 Live at the Teaneck General Store
Come see Gedalya, a folk-rock and faith inspired musician. The show starts at 8:30 and is free.
BIO:
Gedalya (née Jeffrey Michael Slochevsky) is the Brooklyn-born son of a traveling salesman.
His family left New York, eventually ending up in Florida. When asked whether he always knew what direction his life would take, this singer songwriter responds that he started out with different plans.
“When I was 6, I wanted to be a superhero. At 12 I’d sit in a shopping cart and pretend to be a racecar driver. When I was 19, I knew I wanted to be a musician.”
He drove his 1977 Cadillac coupe Deville (with limousine tinted windows) to New York from Florida in 21 hours. He spent years teaching himself to play the piano so he could put the poetry he’d always written to music.
After a few years, he was living in Kew Gardens and performing at various clubs in Greenwich Village, including The Bitter End, The Speak Easy and The Sun Mountain Cafe but he kept thinking there was more. After a trip to Israel and Poland, Gedalya went back to Florida as an Orthodox Jew.
“We went to a concentration camp and I couldn’t believe how real it was. Instead of being pushed away from my faith, I felt more drawn to it.
At 28, Gedalya came back to New York, this time with a commitment to study the Torah and practice Judaism.
Today, Gedalya is married with 5 children. He learns and lives in a major Jewish community.
Gedalya’s music is inspired by faith and folk rock.
