September 17, 2024 • 50 mins
Sam Omari, Singer, Song Writer, Producer and Fashion Designer to the Stars, as well as Chanel Omari's father stops by Chanel in the City to chat with host and his daughter, Chanel Omari, on his new song: Shir Ha Neshama (The Song of the Soul) the inspiration behind it and why this song is so spiritual and impactful during such a crucial time for Israel and the Jewish people and for the innocent palestenians during this horrific war. It's an uplifting song that inspires us to keep going and believing in God and in kindness in humanity.
Sam Omari chats how he became a song writer and singer and how it's never too late to give up on your dreams.
Omari chats about how he started as a shoe designer and had created custom shoe designs for Madonna, Pamela Anderson, Salt N Pepper, Steve Madden, Nine West and more!
Sam also chats about being a family man and balancing being a good father, husband and his career all at once
He chats on struggles and obstacles he had to face in the music industry and how he had to find his own voice and the tips to being successful in anything/ any industry you do.
Make sure to follow Sam
Omari @SamOmari7 on all social media platforms for more music and info!
Make sure to check out his song here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lYZPoQME0Ds&pp=ygUJU2FtIE9tYXJp
Sam Omari chats how he became a song writer and singer and how it's never too late to give up on your dreams.
Omari chats about how he started as a shoe designer and had created custom shoe designs for Madonna, Pamela Anderson, Salt N Pepper, Steve Madden, Nine West and more!
Sam also chats about being a family man and balancing being a good father, husband and his career all at once
He chats on struggles and obstacles he had to face in the music industry and how he had to find his own voice and the tips to being successful in anything/ any industry you do.
Make sure to follow Sam
Omari @SamOmari7 on all social media platforms for more music and info!
Make sure to check out his song here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lYZPoQME0Ds&pp=ygUJU2FtIE9tYXJp
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey, everyone, Welcome back to another episode of Chanel in
the City on iHeartRadio. I'm your host, Shanell Omari, and
we have a very special guest for you today in
the building. You guys are going to understand a lot
more about me after I introduce him. He is a
very talented musician, songwriter, shoe designer, one of the best
creatives I've known thus far. He had the hottest song
(00:29):
that came out this summer. It's called Song of the
Soul in English and in Hebrew shil Hanishama. We're going
to get into it. Please welcome the one, the only,
the very funny, the very handsome, the very amazing. My father,
ladies and gentlemen, My father, Sam Omari, how are you?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I'm good? Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Can you believe that we're here father and daughter For
a lot of the audience, you know, people they always
think that I'm very unique. They always think that, like
they want to know about my parents and my siblings
and if I have any because a lot of people
think I'm an only only child and where I've come from,
you know. So today is a very big honor to
have you on my show, and a lot of people
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don't know that you've believed in me and supported me
and invested in me and this show. And when nobody
believed in me, he helps me. So I want to
thank you very much about my dad. My father's also Israeli.
He's in Israeli Iraqi. He was born in Israel. We're
going to get into that. And we were raised with Judaism,
which was a big part of our upbringing and a
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big part and inspiration behind this song that you're here promoting.
So let's talk a little bit about the song first,
Shilan and Shama, right, and it means what what was
the inspiration behind it?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Shierlon Ashama is it's a connection we got in the
sense where you know, God gave us the salt, and
he gave us a clean salt and he wants it
back clean. So you know, I closer to to to God.
And this is what I decided to do, is starting
to write songs that would mean something be connected and
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people can relate to it.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
That's amazing. So what would you say, you know, talking
about the soul, So you say that spiritually we come
into this world with a pure soul and we leave
it with it with a pure soul. Exactly what happens
in the between stages when you're writing the song, what's
going on through your you know, in your head in
the process of the music got.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
You know, you have this time where you have to
you go through a lot of things people you know,
not everybody uh knows this way in a sense, and
you just you know, you just have to relate to
it and understand the lyric of it actually and be
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close to it. I'm close to God and this is
how I feel about it, and I feel that this
would make me write the song that you know the camera.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
You're dedicating it to God. So you're very You're a
man of God. You've taught us to be very spiritual,
raising us. Why is it so important to you? Why
is God so important to you? Why is this music? Why?
Why did you switch and transition to dedicate your music
to God?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Oh? I felt that this time where you have to
really believe in the creator that put us out here
and that we are going through right now, that things
are not that good. You know the world is really changing,
and I've decided to, you know, do songs that would
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mean something and come up with this with this song.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Do you feel like God has helped you through to
cope through like mental health definitely, and trials and tribulations
you've had in your life, or you know, with the
your disseemitism happening. How has he helped you through? Give
us some you know, maybe examples.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Look, you could just tell what's going on today in
these days, things are not that good and you know,
people getting confused. There's a lot of h and answer
a question that I'd like to know. And I really
wanted to write this song to make people understand that
this is the connection between God and us with anybody,
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doesn't matter what nationality, what language you are in, just
you know, be close to him. And I wrote that song.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Because miracles happened. Yes, right, well, okay, talk to us
a little bit about when you were writing the music.
You know, you play instruments people don't know for people
out there, you play the guitar very well. I was
raised with you playing the guitar. For us, you know,
we were raising a home, you know, with music and
comedy and arts and entertainment to kind of cope with
whatever was going on within the world, whether it was
(04:49):
in our favor or not. But talk to us about
why you started playing the guitar, and and why I
loved the guitar.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I started it very young, and I had and inspiration
from the Beatles and all those you know, the nineteen
in nineteen sixty seventies, and then I started, you know,
I wanted to get the guitar and start playing with that,
and I really felt for it, and I knew that
I had that kind of attraction to it, and I
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wanted to play. And that's how I, you know, were playing,
and from one thing to the other got me into
write the songs. And that's it. That's it.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
And he played, and you did have a famous song
in Israel when you were younger, and what was it?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Called? You we Will Wela? Right?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Which what what does that mean in English?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Well, govermently, let me talk.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Let me tell you the story. Oh yeah, okay, and
it's about what the song.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
It's been my erson that I knew that when went
to the army and two weeks before he got off
the army. Okay, he was supposed to get married and
he lost, he got killed, and so I just wrote
this song and uh, wow, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
So it's based on the truth story. Yes, yes, wow, Okay,
that's pretty cool when you had the one hit in Israel.
You know, we all strive as artists, right to make
it right, to have a hit single, to have a
hit album, a hit comedy show, drink whatever it is
you do in art. When you had it, and then
you know, I don't want to say taken away from you,
but then it was a one hit wonder and then
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you had to go back to regular life where you
had to find another job. Exactly how was that for you?
Was that reality hard?
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Not really? I helped somebody in downtown to you had
the shoe store, and from there I just grew up
to for and did my own stores and I started
to design shoes. And I had two stores, It's called
Omari and Uramo, and they were in Solo. And at
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the time I was doing very good.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
And it was a lot of celebrities, were there a
lot of celebrities like Janet Jackson, Goldie harn Aerosmith, Tyler.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Me.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
It would buy yeah, you know which, And I would
remember as a kid, I think, I think a lot
of people ask me why did you get into this business?
Like what about this business?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Is this?
Speaker 1 (07:15):
This is like an addiction for me? Right? You know,
other people have addictions. It's I mean, it's interviewing, it's
doing comedy, it's being creative. And I feel like as
a kid, you raised us, me and my brother and
my sister to really take pride in being creative and
the arts. And when you you know, when you designed
your shoes, or you had us work for you and
learn work ethic or celebrities would come into the story.
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You knew marketing and branding from a very young age, right,
So do you think that had to do with music?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Not necessarily. I mean, you know, it's just that I
had love for that also. And I think that if
you focus and you like what you do and you
really want to be good at what you do, it,
you got to work hard at what it is and
then you'll see what it leads you to. So certain
people have tartented set. People don't, but you get you
(08:04):
have to try, and it's it's important for somebody to
get his goal and see what he can do and
believe in himself.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I meant to that. Let's talk about the transition between
you coming from Israel to America. You know, you leave
them as a career behind, but you still have your passion.
You're still doing it, and now you're going to the
shoe business. What made you go into the shoe business?
How did you know being a designer, which is just
as hard, would make you money.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
It was very difficult at the beginning. And then I
started to love what I'm doing and I started to
get into, you know, certain style and look at what
I can bring up to people that would be interested
on the on the fashion. At the time, there was
no fashion, okay. And I started to feel the shoe
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market and see how it is. And I traveled a lot.
I went to Europe. I got inspiration by what what
the designer is showing and stuff like that, and I
picked up on things and I knew what the American
market was looking for. And I when I was in
sol So just was up and coming. And I started
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to bring a style that were interested to certain people.
And that's how it got to to take off from
one thing to another. And and I've done well for
whatever reason is, you know, and God helped me out
the being.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
And also you had to have a family. I came
along right, so you had to definitely shower your prints
as not kidding, but you always taught us work.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I think you had the American dream goal where you
worked really hard and then you know you had to
work away from the bottom up, right, So you know
you had different jobs before you got successful, right.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
So yeah, I was a cab driver. I was hustling
on the streets selling shoes. I was uh, you know,
it was rough, you know, and but I wanted better
for what I wanted, and I wanted the good things.
I wanted to family, I wanted to make good, good,
good living, and tried to live the American dream.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
You know, how did you still continue music even though
you need to be you needed to have a full
time seri as a man.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Yeah, you're right, but music was always in our life.
And when we were kids, we were singing and I
was singing.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
And you also had a club right in Israel.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Well, we had a club with my brothers.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
And I don't think a lot of people write so
sorry to interrupt. I don't think a lot of people
understand the his I think so people say, there's past
lives where you feel connection with what happens either with
your parents before you're born. So that means what you
and your brothers had the discotheque and why, which is
why I was in hospitality or so drawn to it,
or so drawn to the club scene. There's a reason,
right from karmic past or whatever your parents had been doing.
(10:53):
It's interesting. I didn't know that a lot of this
about you until I asked. As I got older. I
had no idea. You know, I just thought you were
a businessman my whole life. I didn't really know until
I got older. Even when you would come home and
talk about the celebrities that came, or the celebrities that
came to the club in Israel, or the celebrities that
came to your shoe stores or your brother's shoe stores,
or whatever experience you would share with me, I wasn't
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understanding it until I got older, right that how cool
that is, and how cool it was ut history that
really has set me up for certain things too. You know,
how was that experience?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
As I told you, it was interested. You come up,
you come up with you'll meet people that you know,
celebrity like I said, or just simple people and people
you know, drove to the to the to the stores
and and and it was interested for me to bring
the merchandise that they were looking for. And uh, I
(11:50):
was happy to do what I've done, you know it
was good?
Speaker 1 (11:53):
What inspired you behind the shoe designs that?
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Like?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
You know, you didn't have experience as a buyer, right,
all goes they have? What how did you?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
I think that most of it was that going to Europe,
seeing the designing of the Italian in Italy. I worked
in Italy for about ten years, and uh I learned
a lot and I also had the niche for that.
I did have to touch to that, you know, and
uh yeah, I tried to being Yeah, I had to
(12:23):
eye exactly exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
So sometimes you can teach talent and sometimes you can't.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Yes, well, challenge talent comes naturally to a person. It
has to have something. They has to have some kind
of of of a test of an eye that it sill,
put the skill that it can pick on so and
and run with that and believe in himself. You have
to believe in yourself.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
You have to believe in yourself. So you always believed
in yourself.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
You're always I never doubt myself.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Talk to us a little bit about those experiences. You know,
our audience in Channel the city, they always have sometimes
doubts and they need to get out of their own heads.
What what the talk to us about some of the
doubts others had in you that you had to fight
and say no, no, no. I believe in myself in
my music. I'm still going to do in my shoe designing.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Right, I never give up. And another way is I
fought for what it was and I didn't let anybody
bring me down. And it was just it was hard
at the beginning. But as you go along and as
you bring certain things and as you believe in yourself,
you go forward and you do the best you can,
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and you bring what it is, and one thing leads
to another and you feel that you accomplish something and
you you've done something that you like. And that's something
that if you you already if you like something, it's
it's it's a winning situation because this way, you know
that it's an easiest way for you to get better
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and do what you like. So you know, a person
needs to know what really likes to and then he
has to believe in himself and that's you know, that's
that's a formula.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
I'm still working on it. I talk to this man
every day about how I'm not making it and how
I'm gonna make it. But you know what, it's ups
and downs and it's life and which is the beauty
of being an artist?
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Right?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
So talk to us about you know you you you
kind of had this American dream where you had a career,
you still had your passion, you got married to our mom,
then you had kids. You know, how did you balance
it all out? And what are your tips for people
to want to who want who want it all? You know?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Well, first of all, I think that family, it's it's
nice if you willing to accept that and have and
and and marriage and and and do what you I mean,
I have a great wife that she's stood by me
all the time, and I have great kids, you know,
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and I can't complain about anything. And it was easier
for me to uh to push myself and and she
pushed me to do what what what I've done? And
you know the rest of it is is what came
out of it. That's the project, the product.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Yeah, it's still a working product. What is your tips
to parents, you know, when they don't agree with their
kids being artists, how should they talk to their kids?
How should they believe it?
Speaker 2 (15:23):
I don't think that their parents should should they should
support him? No, matter what. And a person needs to
know also that if he is if he has talent
and he's good, he needs to believe in himself and
not just that, he also has to listen to order
to find out if this is really who he is
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and what what it brings in. It's it's it's good
enough to to to the public or whatever. So it's
it's with anything else no matter what you do. If
you cook, if you are clothing designer, should design, whatever
whatever skill that you touch, you have to know it.
(16:06):
You have to love it the rest of it. People
needs to let you know if you if you're good
at it or not.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
What's your advice to those who feel they are good
at it but the door is always closing on them
or there's always a rejection or no, what do you should?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I think that you should continue to fight and continue
love doing what they're doing, and they should they believe it.
They have to believe in themselves and see the dream
that you know that they that they are looking for
it to accomplish something and and go for it.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Like you you're seventy three, Not to bring your age up,
but you're seventy.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Three, that you're going to talk all them.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
It's an inspiredration because my point about it or in
your seventies is that you don't give up.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
You just don't give up and do it.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
You can put your music on YouTube, put your music
on your Spotify.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Now you know all my music I want.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Right now, you can listen to uh Samomari song as
we speak. We're going to do it in the middle
of our ads advertisement section A sneak peek exclusive for
your guys, only your ears. You can catch it on YouTube.
What is it called again? Sheil and Amanhama And that's
the song, so right and right now you can check
it out. And that's the beauty. You could create your
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own platforms, just like I did with podcasting. You know
so a lot of people weren't giving me a chance.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
This is what I this is what I like to see,
if you don't mind to say something is you went
up there and done it all by yourself, without any network,
and you Uh introduced yourself to all the celebrity that
thought that you are some guid of the elephant network
that came over you and you did it by all
by yourself. And I give you a lot of credit.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Well, thank you, but not all by myself. You were
there by my side.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Oh yeah, what I'm just saying you you went out
there and you did it. You did it.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Thank you, which is what I say to the audience,
like everyone needs to know that you need someone supportive.
Like for me, it was always my dad, it was
you know, and I was fortunate to have that. A
lot of people don't have that. But I say, if
you do have that, you keep that like glue, because
you were my rock.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
There was times where I would call you crying. There
was I didn't have money to take a train to
There was times where I was running through obstacles. But
people thought from the outside we had such a good
family life, which, by the way, nothing's perfect. But I
think you've taught us to kind of have this tough skin,
not to really take out your emotions.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Believe in yourself, you know, go out there and do
what you can the best. Yeah, and be original.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
In a general and be yeah, and don't be honest.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
And be straight and be original. That's that's very important.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
That's very important.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
And focus on whatever you do, make sure even details,
small details, whatever it is, always make sure that it's
they come out good.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Now let's talk about your music. What would you say,
you're I guess your your The tone of the music
is so is it different.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
People can like it and people don't have to like it.
Of course anybody and everybody have to think about what
kind of music they like to hear. And it's not
necessary that that I came up with this song, that
that song. Everybody should go for those songs. I mean,
just that I feel close to God and I think
that this is what I really want to continue doing.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
With my This is what helps you through, say guy, but.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
I love any kind of music and I and I
was here at the well the sty the favorites the nineties,
well you know, I went to see Als and what
all this group. No matter what, I always like those
music and I still enjoy it to hear the music
doesn't matter, either the old music or the new music.
(19:53):
And I can I can get to it. I can,
you know, I can understand that. And it's fine. So
it depends on the individual or what you like and
type of music or style life, whatever it is. You
just choose yourself and enjoy it. Music is good than.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Any yeah, ah kind therapeutics, Yes, it's very I mean
even when you know growing up when you would play
the guitar for us and stuff like that. I think
that was something a major thing for me, you know,
because also I'm a DJ. I've done DJing on iHeart Radio.
I've been on the radio station. For me, I think why,
I asked myself, well, how did this all come together?
We had natural talent? Of course you have to you
(20:34):
have to work at the talent and the like you
write every day you go to the recording studio, you
play in thew notes. You're not just going to ask
someone to do it for you. So my point is
is that music you helped us, you taught us music
and art. Would it helps you cope with mental health stuff?
If you're getting too emotional one day, if you're not,
if you're having a bad day, you're giving up hope.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Yeah, music are the really therapeutic therapeutic to any kind
of things. If you're down and if you just listen
to music, music bring you up. And you have to
be always positive, come a good attitude, you know, start
the morning nice and and help yourself up to even
though it's like if you're going to bring energy of negativity,
(21:19):
you're always going to be down and you're going to
be complaining about yourself, right, Just just go positive, just
enjoy life, just do the best you can.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Let's talk about your studio fifty four days, right, which
is one of the hottest clubs. I don't think there
is anything like Studio fifty or four ever. Yeah, talked
us about that experience, especially being a shoe designer.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
That was cool.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Well, you know, at the rebel was outside and he
would and you've gone in, I've got or.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
He would no, no, I've got in because I had
a very big upful mustage a little and he liked that,
and he like that looks. You know they at the time,
they didn't even.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Know did you do that purposely? No?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
No, the his style.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Okay, so and you're a Jewish man, so you know
we have our frost time. So yeah, oh I had enough,
so you came.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
So I came. And he wanted just a very unique
kind of characters to go into his club. So he
made this club like very famous. This way. I remember
he refused one of the actress. I don't remember, no way,
it was yes, And there was a big deal because
he just picked up and choose who he wanted in
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the club.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
At the time, that's pretty, but that's also an artistic way.
That's why he was in. It was very successful, which
he started the whole Dorman right, exact exclusiveness even you know,
just for people to at clubs. You know, you have
a job like that. Now we have you know, like
Tau group that's kind of similar or a little sister
where I've gone in and by the way I feel
(22:50):
again this is karmak like I just know how to
get in from the stories you've shared with me. Right,
So it's like a movie. How was that experience going in?
Was it as cracked up as it was to be?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
No, those days was really great. It was like a
lot of freedom and there were a lot of it
now that it was there. No, No, that crime not okay,
crime was why was it one point in the eighties. Yeah,
but but it's it is what it is, and it
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is you can't change. Yeah, you know, I don't want
to get into policy. I'm just saying this is what
it is. You have to have a safe country and
a freedom of speech and enjoy yourself because life is short.
It just have to enjoy life.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
So you're in New York City, you're fat, you're shoe designer.
You're single, then you you know, you meet my mom,
you're going to studio fifty four. What made you want
to become a dad?
Speaker 2 (23:56):
That's a good question. I really I was at the time.
It was a really good time. And I remember my
father used to tell me, you know, if you do
not get married, you don't pass on your soul to
another person. That means you don't produce. And I felt, also,
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you know what my time is. Even though I got
married at thirty one years old, I wanted to have
a family. I wanted to have and I fell in
love with you, you know, and she, you know, she
worked for us in the store, I know, and so this,
you know, it went out from there, you know, from
(24:41):
there I was very happy.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Did you ever think, I guess what would you say,
is what's the secret to a successful marriage? You guys
have been married?
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Of course, there is argument, there is fights, there is screaming,
There is things here and there sometimes times not all
the time, MICUs, not at all.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
But in HER's case, she runs shy lads.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
But it's a sweetheart and she's the best, ever.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
The best I've never seen in my life. I guess
a couple that tries to see the best in each other.
After all the trials.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
You got to work it out, you know. First time
when we got married, went to the honeymoon and I
think it was Bahamas, and we said with an old couple, yeah,
And the women went to the bathroom and and I
asked the old guy. I said to him, tell me
how long you can be married? So it says to
me fifty or something like that, sister, So how did
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you do it? He said, we got to work it out.
I didn't understand what he meant by now, but he
meant like work it out little by little. You know
that if you really want a good life, you have
to you know, you have to have partner with you
and you have to agree or disagree. It's up to
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the there's situation, but still work it out.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Have you have you ever met a or made a
song for her? Maybe you should start?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Okay, maybe it should start.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
You never wrote a song for her the romantic that
you are?
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (26:17):
No, wow, okay, maybe next song, maybe next album?
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (26:22):
How important? Would you say? Love and romance is very important?
You should be making should we be making it? Part
of our full time job as well as our careers
and are you know the way we take care of ourselves?
Should it be something part of our routine?
Speaker 2 (26:37):
And which way talking about?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
You know, some people don't want to make time for love, right,
they've been jaded, they've been hurt.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Ye're right, but you have to make you have to
make that time, and you have to forget and forgive
and you have to continue going forward. And I guess
you have to wait the situation and if if, if
you have a good lady or a good man, you
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know you have to treat each other nice. That's that's
the secret of it. I guess you know, you have
to be honest and yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Respect each other, respect each other without respect exactly. Hopefully
one of these days I will get married soon.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Oh i'lph my if I hulda?
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Would that be upsetting to you? Disappointing?
Speaker 2 (27:24):
If I never got married, Well, i'd love to, you know,
I'd love to have some grandkids, meaning you.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I'd love to have a baby too. Yeah, well, hopefully
it's gonna hopefully soon. We'll pray. Next song will be
about that, Okay, But you know, I think you have
to also work hard at praying every day. I think
everything is work if you want things.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
You know what I mean. I wanted to give a
shut to. I want to talk about the music. Yeah,
that's the one that I the song that I wrote. Yeah,
and I was looking for musician that I could put
the song together with the sam melody that I really liked, right,
and I couldn't find one until we went to Israel
(28:06):
last year, me in Danna and and I walked the
street and I heard a background of music and it
was so attractive. And I went out there and I
met this bunch of three guys, of four guys that
were playing the instrument. One was in violin and then
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you know, trump, and then one in the corner. I
really loved the music and they were extremely great. I
took the card from them and we arranged to do
and put the song together. And I wanted just to
mention those guys please shout. I think you shout them
out on the song right now.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
You can check it out. Shell and a Shama. I'm
gonna just give yeah, we have it here, I think
so the soul lyrics is I'm sorry production, We're gonna
shout out Dawn, Eli Melev and Nils Rossi. The drums
were by A Nieve Cohen and the guitar with shim
on Ye Yeah yeah, keyboards and programming by Dawn Eli
(29:08):
Meneth and Neil Siossi. The accordion you talked about was
Mattan mis Rafri Violins by near Siosi, And we're gonna
also put it in the description of the podcasts. So right,
so we're gonna shout you guys out. We're also going
to talk about the English lyrics.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Yeah, you have it.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Here's a part that says, the Tree of Life is
for its holders and happy supporters. Talk to us a
little bit about what you meant by those words. The
tree of life is for its holders and happy supporters.
So I know in Hebrew means something different.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Well, the trio of Love is Life is really talking
about the whole Bibles, the whole to okay, and so
in the Jewish tradition is you know, you got to
solve and if you going to follow that path of
of of the I mean it's not necessarily good. I mean,
(30:09):
I'm not referring to anybody or it's just the way
I feel that way. Okay. So the Tree of Song
is like you have to follow up the way God
wants you to follow it's you have to make your choice.
You have a true choice, free will, right, But you're
saying you can go the whole thing. So because in
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Neghbwood sounds different. Right.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
So here's some of the lyrics I'll read. I received
the gifts A pure soul. I thank you, my God.
The soul that you blew into me. It's all clean
and a white soul. The soul that you gave to me.
She breathes life. She breathes life into me. A sigh
of relief. The tree of life is for its holders
and happy supporters. Her ways are pleasant ways, and all
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it and all its paths are peace. Piece piece melody
to you, Oh God, I will carry my prayers for you,
the Lord of all things, You are, the Almighty God.
The soul that you blew into me, she wonders around,
looking for the rest and peace. This soul that you
planted in me repents. The tree of life is for
its holders and happy supporters. Her ways are pleasant ways,
(31:18):
and all its paths are piece piece piece. So basically,
you're writing a song for you know. It's a beautiful song,
by the way, It's a gorgeous, gorgeous lyrics, and it's
it's I know it's from the heart, and it's a
great production you did to get together, you know, producing.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Right, So I just wanted to mention, yes, guys again,
so we gave them.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Yeah, shame on, Yeah, yeah, we gave all the shout outs.
We're gonna also put the shout outs in the description, guys,
as Chanel in the City audience, you could look in
under the description on each podcast platform, We're going to
give you links and all the credits for the musicians
and the co writers with you and the co producers,
right right, So anything else you I wanted to talk
about this song as well that meant something to you.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
I mean it's just that. No, it's just it's good
to me. It's not necessarily I'm not You're not pushing
on in everyone, Yeah, exactly, I'm not pushing any people.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Were struggling with their faith or struggling with you know,
ups and downs in life. For what they are being lost,
I think it's a great song for them to check out.
I think it's a great song for the you to
tune in.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
I tune in on YouTube, you have it in.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
iTunes, Apple podcasts, you have it on Spotify, which you
can go check out right now, we're gonna have it.
We're gonna give you guys an exclicive peak on our
iHeart radio platform. You can only listen to it on
iHeart Radio right now. Download the iHeart Radio app Chanel
in the city and you'll be able to get it
towards the end of this podcast. So stay tuned, don't
go in anywhere. Let's talk about a little bit about
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your history in Israel growing up. What kind of kid
were you?
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Were? You a player?
Speaker 1 (32:52):
You were a troublemaker when you're a good kid.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
I was.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
I was just a streets where you're a street kid.
You were a street kid. Tell us about three kid
to a religious man, a Jewish religious man. Talk to
us about that journey. Why were you a street kid?
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Well, the timing was different, and we were. It was
a beautiful time for us. There was no TV, no telephone,
no this. We played outside. Everything was really uh and
what you see is what you get and uh. I
was brought up very nicely. The thing is I was
I think at the time that was we didn't discover
a d D had. It's probably that that's why I
(33:33):
was like more of a you know, out on the
street of playing a lot and what we had a
very very nice life.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
You had fat brothers, right, and yeah, I had five
brothers and six. How was it growing up in a
big family like that?
Speaker 2 (33:49):
It was great? It was the best because there was
no we didn't have much much of a luxury or
money and but wedn't live nice, you know, and uh,
we all got along with each other and we having
a really great time the holidays, the games that we played,
(34:11):
the radio that we listened to. At the time, there
was no TV, and slowly, you know, then started to
you know, all this came up and we had a.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Really nice childhood.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Yeah, that nice child upbringing? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Yeah, right, And now how do you feel, you know,
without getting to political, obviously, Israel is a big part
of your life. It's a big part of my identity
and what's whatever going on in the world. I'm not
going to get into details because we've been talking about
it on the podcast a lot, and you guys can
tune into other episodes with other Israeli activists that we've
had on the podcast or Jewish people. Has it ever
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been this bad? At least because you've grown up there,
you've seen the conflict people, and there is really but
it's more I'll let you explain a little bit, but
it's more of their government and extremists. It's not the
palstoning people. No, because you've even shown me. I've been
into Israel and we've seen Arabs that have that are
Muslims that have lived very nicely with us, and and
and then there's the extremist. So tell us how it
(35:09):
was then growing up, and then tell us how it
is now. Well, from your perspective, it doesn't from your perspective,
the culture just living it.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Look then we lived side by side, and uh, well
even at the time, you know, there was some villages
of ours that the readies went out and that they
are the food tradition of the we're at the same
time they came over to us and my father had
people that worked with him. It was okay, it was good.
(35:44):
You know.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
I guess why do you think it became so bad?
Speaker 2 (35:48):
It's I don't have the answer to that because I
don't want to get into politics. I just think that
having peace in life, it's it's is the best things
that could happen, if that possible, if it would, if
it would be happening. But the other work out. I think,
(36:11):
I think that it's possible. Yes, it is, of course.
If you don't think positive, you might as well. You know,
you don't have any dreams. You don't you don't do what.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Has there ever been a time you can remember that
the Israelies and Arabs were better in a better place.
I'm not obviously not now. I'm saying ever the seventies eighties,
because I don't know.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Listen, Israel is a democratic country and they're given awful
lot of opportunity to people to come in there, and
we have all sorts of people from all countries, and
and we don't discriminate. There is people in the government,
the Arab and and thanks. I don't know. The situation is.
(36:51):
It is what it is you. It's happening everywhere right now,
So things are changing. Hopefully.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
I hope we can have peace, brank friendness, millions in
both sides everywhere. We don't want war. War was never
an answer for if you never taught you know, it's
not You've always taught us how to be in peace
and just raised with love. More so, for me, it's
very hard to wrap my head on around it whether
(37:19):
or are whether Israeli, whether you're I just don't settle
or stand in my audience nose for terrorism and violence
and hatred and that can come in all forms. And
I don't think that's okay with with any race. And
I agree with you, and we all have to accept
each other human race and stick together against people who
are just violent in general. Right, so brank for better days.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
It has to be respect, you know, I think we're
missing this kind of uh word and respect me just
to be respected. It's I right, and people treat each
other nice and even now it's still okay, But I
mean you have to uh not lose those value, right
you know, you goes people today talking the way they want,
(37:59):
they say what they want. They don't have any so
but overall we have a This is a great cut.
This is a great country, great country, and it's the
land of opportunity. It is a lend of opportunity.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
You're an example.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
You can make Yeah, you can make it the way
you think that you want to have it. So if
you want to have a good life, you you you could,
you could. It could happen here where in different countries
that I don't want to mention names, but you don't.
You can't. You can't get to what it is over here.
(38:35):
So I hope that this country would stay free and
you could have that h a piece with each other.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Amen. Do you think how important is it though to
have your Israeli identity if you are in Israeli or
someone for me like your daughter teaching your kids? Or
should we be scared to be Jewish in this country? Like?
How important is it to not have fear?
Speaker 2 (38:56):
No?
Speaker 1 (38:56):
You have you have to you have Listen, how do
you be proud of your identity? I guess we should
ask you.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
Should always stand for who you are. And you're not
doing anything by if you're not speaking up and you
cannot identified yourself and and and and have uh another voice?
I mean, what what what you're supposed to do? This
is this country was always uh a free country and
(39:27):
I I I hope it's going to continue and uh
that we can live with each other here in peace.
You know, we never had any problem. I mean even
there you do have certain things, but this wasn't like
what is happening now. But I'm very optimistic that it's
going to be good and life.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Is going to be better, right too, better, Let's transition
a little bit and go back to artists that maybe
from for future music you're going to make. Are there
any artists both American or israelly that you that you've
dreamt of working with that you never worked with before.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Hmm. I can't think of anybody right now. I mean,
there are so many great artists that they are, they
are fantastic and all sort of music that they can
be any kind of music. And then you know, I
would love to see myself working with saying people that
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they are, that they're good. I just don't know if
my music can fits into their music. And it might
be because you might you can put maybe rap music
with the remix. Yeah, we talked about mix.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
That we talked about like the soil see you with
like a like a Drake remix or like that's my
vision my dream or you know in the clubs, but
remixing something spiritual with something cool even ASoP rocky people,
you know, those rappers who are really their artists as well.
You know, that would be cool. Maybe we see stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
You know, never know, you never know. You gotta really
feel for whatever you want to and it doesn't matter
what hits you and doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
What I say, doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
You got to do what you do exactly and love
doing what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
That's what you taught me. I think a lot of
people ask me like, what do you mean you're a DJ?
What do you mean you're a comedian? And then you're
an actress, which is all in the art form, And
I know people want you to do one thing successful
so you could be known for others. But I think
because I was raised by you to literally try whatever
you want to do and that's okay, which is a blessing.
I think that's where it came from. And now it
makes more sense, you know, knowing more about you and
(41:37):
getting to know you more because you always fill the
house with a lot of humor.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
You know, a lot of times you always had a
good time.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
That's what I was gonna ask, you know, how do
you cope with life if you're having a hard time.
You taught me how to just have a sense of
humor about things, not always you know, crying is not
going to solve it, and complaining is not going to
do anything about it. So it's always about you know,
which is why because you.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Always have to find your place and time and you know,
it's very important to have a good middle How do
you send.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
Me values morals side? Okay, what's the next song that
we can tune in that you're working on. What's some
new music? Share?
Speaker 2 (42:15):
We're going something right now, hopefully, I hope you know.
We're leaving to uh to Israel, God willing, and let's
see what it comes out of it. We'll talk about
it when when it come.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
When it comes out. Anything that is going to be
a little different than this type of genre, gonne be
some Israeli music, something to dance to.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
Yeah, i'd like to you know, we'll see album is album.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
In the future coming or you like to release single.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
I'm going to release singles. That's it, you know, Okay.
Speaker 1 (42:43):
I'ney thank you dad for betiful.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
Proud of you, my heart, I'll say thanks, You're real,
truly talented. Thank you you heard you are and thank
you and uh you know, to realize that you have
to look at you and and understand where you came
from and what you did by yourself, without any network,
how you put yourself up to do what you did.
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I'm very proud of you and I wish you all
the best.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
I love it thank you. I also want you guys
to know that it wasn't easy right for me. A
lot of people want to know now that I have
you here like how it was for me, you know,
growing up, and just a lot of people can judge
and make decisions based on your family. You know you
raised as well. I definitely came from a little background
because you worked very hard, but you also taught us
to work very hard. And there was times you even
(43:35):
came on trains with me where we didn't have money
or we had didn't work hard. Just I'll share it
with people, well, you know, because that wasn't our culture,
wasn't a lot of psycles to get law still not
in and where we want to be right.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
But I thank God for every day that that it's
a bonus day that I can get up in the
morning and I get feel well and I enjoyed seeing
my family, my friends in smite and just just just
be myself and enjoy life.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
Do you feel like being thankful and closer to God
and manifestation Pocitific helped you through all these herds?
Speaker 2 (44:10):
Oh yes, yes, miracles definitely. I mean coming close to
those are open, things are happening, easy, life. You know,
you have to believe, and you have to believe in
the creative. He's the one that put us over here
and for whatever reason is and if we have to
come here just to fix ourself, whatever it is, we
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should really thank him and be always appreciate what, you know,
what we experience to come to world like that and
see whatever it is, whatever the day it brings you on.
I love that.
Speaker 1 (44:44):
I'm definitely trying to learn that advice or take that
advice and work on it, and we're praying for better days.
You know, something about me is and everybody my audience
knows is that we're all a work in progress, and
it's step by step. It's day by day and we
try our best.
Speaker 2 (44:59):
That's it, and so you could do.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
When I was growing up with you, Yes, is, being
Israeli and Jewish was a big part of my identity
because you raised us with that and Jewish school and
everything like that. But I remember in society with mainstream
I wanted to be famous and a lot of in popularity,
a lot of people didn't accept me, and I didn't
realize how much anti Semitism there was. It was always internalized.
I internalized it. I didn't talk about it out loud.
(45:21):
Then I grew up and I realized I didn't talk
a lot about it on my podcast. So I'm happy
you're here to talk about a Hebrew song because and
that we're proud of it, because it makes me feel
like we came a long way where it used to
feel taboo, and it shouldn't feel taboo because being Jewish
is beautiful. And whatever is going on in the world,
any kind of any kind of religion and nationality, now,
as long as you're coming for the love, it is beautiful, exactly,
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and nobody should accept it. People out there is still
what's going on in the world, and I just want
you guys to know a little piece of us. We're
praying for peace. We're praying for better days of course. Samamuri,
thank you my father being here and giving birth to me. Guys,
sheil Anshama. You can catch right now on YouTube, Spotify, iTunes,
and Apple Music. You can catch an exclusive premiere tune
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listening to his music. Sila and Eshama.
Speaker 2 (46:46):
Thank you song of the soul.
Speaker 1 (46:49):
Trust me, you'll thank me later. Listen to it. It
will make you feel better and more driven and we
hope for better days. Love you, cocinators.
Speaker 2 (46:55):
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the City, Buddy.
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Speaker 3 (49:23):
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Speaker 2 (50:15):
Showing showing
Hey, everyone, Welcome back to another episode of Chanel in
the City on iHeartRadio. I'm your host, Shanell Omari, and
we have a very special guest for you today in
the building. You guys are going to understand a lot
more about me after I introduce him. He is a
very talented musician, songwriter, shoe designer, one of the best
creatives I've known thus far. He had the hottest song
(00:29):
that came out this summer. It's called Song of the
Soul in English and in Hebrew shil Hanishama. We're going
to get into it. Please welcome the one, the only,
the very funny, the very handsome, the very amazing. My father,
ladies and gentlemen, My father, Sam Omari, how are you?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I'm good? Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Can you believe that we're here father and daughter For
a lot of the audience, you know, people they always
think that I'm very unique. They always think that, like
they want to know about my parents and my siblings
and if I have any because a lot of people
think I'm an only only child and where I've come from,
you know. So today is a very big honor to
have you on my show, and a lot of people
(01:10):
don't know that you've believed in me and supported me
and invested in me and this show. And when nobody
believed in me, he helps me. So I want to
thank you very much about my dad. My father's also Israeli.
He's in Israeli Iraqi. He was born in Israel. We're
going to get into that. And we were raised with Judaism,
which was a big part of our upbringing and a
(01:32):
big part and inspiration behind this song that you're here promoting.
So let's talk a little bit about the song first,
Shilan and Shama, right, and it means what what was
the inspiration behind it?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Shierlon Ashama is it's a connection we got in the
sense where you know, God gave us the salt, and
he gave us a clean salt and he wants it
back clean. So you know, I closer to to to God.
And this is what I decided to do, is starting
to write songs that would mean something be connected and
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people can relate to it.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
That's amazing. So what would you say, you know, talking
about the soul, So you say that spiritually we come
into this world with a pure soul and we leave
it with it with a pure soul. Exactly what happens
in the between stages when you're writing the song, what's
going on through your you know, in your head in
the process of the music got.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
You know, you have this time where you have to
you go through a lot of things people you know,
not everybody uh knows this way in a sense, and
you just you know, you just have to relate to
it and understand the lyric of it actually and be
(02:52):
close to it. I'm close to God and this is
how I feel about it, and I feel that this
would make me write the song that you know the camera.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
You're dedicating it to God. So you're very You're a
man of God. You've taught us to be very spiritual,
raising us. Why is it so important to you? Why
is God so important to you? Why is this music? Why?
Why did you switch and transition to dedicate your music
to God?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Oh? I felt that this time where you have to
really believe in the creator that put us out here
and that we are going through right now, that things
are not that good. You know the world is really changing,
and I've decided to, you know, do songs that would
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mean something and come up with this with this song.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Do you feel like God has helped you through to
cope through like mental health definitely, and trials and tribulations
you've had in your life, or you know, with the
your disseemitism happening. How has he helped you through? Give
us some you know, maybe examples.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Look, you could just tell what's going on today in
these days, things are not that good and you know,
people getting confused. There's a lot of h and answer
a question that I'd like to know. And I really
wanted to write this song to make people understand that
this is the connection between God and us with anybody,
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doesn't matter what nationality, what language you are in, just
you know, be close to him. And I wrote that song.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Because miracles happened. Yes, right, well, okay, talk to us
a little bit about when you were writing the music.
You know, you play instruments people don't know for people
out there, you play the guitar very well. I was
raised with you playing the guitar. For us, you know,
we were raising a home, you know, with music and
comedy and arts and entertainment to kind of cope with
whatever was going on within the world, whether it was
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in our favor or not. But talk to us about
why you started playing the guitar, and and why I
loved the guitar.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I started it very young, and I had and inspiration
from the Beatles and all those you know, the nineteen
in nineteen sixty seventies, and then I started, you know,
I wanted to get the guitar and start playing with that,
and I really felt for it, and I knew that
I had that kind of attraction to it, and I
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wanted to play. And that's how I, you know, were playing,
and from one thing to the other got me into
write the songs. And that's it. That's it.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
And he played, and you did have a famous song
in Israel when you were younger, and what was it?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Called? You we Will Wela? Right?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Which what what does that mean in English?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Well, govermently, let me talk.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Let me tell you the story. Oh yeah, okay, and
it's about what the song.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
It's been my erson that I knew that when went
to the army and two weeks before he got off
the army. Okay, he was supposed to get married and
he lost, he got killed, and so I just wrote
this song and uh, wow, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
So it's based on the truth story. Yes, yes, wow, Okay,
that's pretty cool when you had the one hit in Israel.
You know, we all strive as artists, right to make
it right, to have a hit single, to have a
hit album, a hit comedy show, drink whatever it is
you do in art. When you had it, and then
you know, I don't want to say taken away from you,
but then it was a one hit wonder and then
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you had to go back to regular life where you
had to find another job. Exactly how was that for you?
Was that reality hard?
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Not really? I helped somebody in downtown to you had
the shoe store, and from there I just grew up
to for and did my own stores and I started
to design shoes. And I had two stores, It's called
Omari and Uramo, and they were in Solo. And at
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the time I was doing very good.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
And it was a lot of celebrities, were there a
lot of celebrities like Janet Jackson, Goldie harn Aerosmith, Tyler.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Me.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
It would buy yeah, you know which, And I would
remember as a kid, I think, I think a lot
of people ask me why did you get into this business?
Like what about this business?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Is this?
Speaker 1 (07:15):
This is like an addiction for me? Right? You know,
other people have addictions. It's I mean, it's interviewing, it's
doing comedy, it's being creative. And I feel like as
a kid, you raised us, me and my brother and
my sister to really take pride in being creative and
the arts. And when you you know, when you designed
your shoes, or you had us work for you and
learn work ethic or celebrities would come into the story.
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You knew marketing and branding from a very young age, right,
So do you think that had to do with music?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Not necessarily. I mean, you know, it's just that I
had love for that also. And I think that if
you focus and you like what you do and you
really want to be good at what you do, it,
you got to work hard at what it is and
then you'll see what it leads you to. So certain
people have tartented set. People don't, but you get you
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have to try, and it's it's important for somebody to
get his goal and see what he can do and
believe in himself.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I meant to that. Let's talk about the transition between
you coming from Israel to America. You know, you leave
them as a career behind, but you still have your passion.
You're still doing it, and now you're going to the
shoe business. What made you go into the shoe business?
How did you know being a designer, which is just
as hard, would make you money.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
It was very difficult at the beginning. And then I
started to love what I'm doing and I started to
get into, you know, certain style and look at what
I can bring up to people that would be interested
on the on the fashion. At the time, there was
no fashion, okay. And I started to feel the shoe
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market and see how it is. And I traveled a lot.
I went to Europe. I got inspiration by what what
the designer is showing and stuff like that, and I
picked up on things and I knew what the American
market was looking for. And I when I was in
sol So just was up and coming. And I started
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to bring a style that were interested to certain people.
And that's how it got to to take off from
one thing to another. And and I've done well for
whatever reason is, you know, and God helped me out
the being.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
And also you had to have a family. I came
along right, so you had to definitely shower your prints
as not kidding, but you always taught us work.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I think you had the American dream goal where you
worked really hard and then you know you had to
work away from the bottom up, right, So you know
you had different jobs before you got successful, right.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
So yeah, I was a cab driver. I was hustling
on the streets selling shoes. I was uh, you know,
it was rough, you know, and but I wanted better
for what I wanted, and I wanted the good things.
I wanted to family, I wanted to make good, good,
good living, and tried to live the American dream.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
You know, how did you still continue music even though
you need to be you needed to have a full
time seri as a man.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Yeah, you're right, but music was always in our life.
And when we were kids, we were singing and I
was singing.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
And you also had a club right in Israel.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Well, we had a club with my brothers.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
And I don't think a lot of people write so
sorry to interrupt. I don't think a lot of people
understand the his I think so people say, there's past
lives where you feel connection with what happens either with
your parents before you're born. So that means what you
and your brothers had the discotheque and why, which is
why I was in hospitality or so drawn to it,
or so drawn to the club scene. There's a reason,
right from karmic past or whatever your parents had been doing.
(10:53):
It's interesting. I didn't know that a lot of this
about you until I asked. As I got older. I
had no idea. You know, I just thought you were
a businessman my whole life. I didn't really know until
I got older. Even when you would come home and
talk about the celebrities that came, or the celebrities that
came to the club in Israel, or the celebrities that
came to your shoe stores or your brother's shoe stores,
or whatever experience you would share with me, I wasn't
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understanding it until I got older, right that how cool
that is, and how cool it was ut history that
really has set me up for certain things too. You know,
how was that experience?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
As I told you, it was interested. You come up,
you come up with you'll meet people that you know,
celebrity like I said, or just simple people and people
you know, drove to the to the to the stores
and and and it was interested for me to bring
the merchandise that they were looking for. And uh, I
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was happy to do what I've done, you know it
was good?
Speaker 1 (11:53):
What inspired you behind the shoe designs that?
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Like?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
You know, you didn't have experience as a buyer, right,
all goes they have? What how did you?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
I think that most of it was that going to Europe,
seeing the designing of the Italian in Italy. I worked
in Italy for about ten years, and uh I learned
a lot and I also had the niche for that.
I did have to touch to that, you know, and
uh yeah, I tried to being Yeah, I had to
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eye exactly exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
So sometimes you can teach talent and sometimes you can't.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Yes, well, challenge talent comes naturally to a person. It
has to have something. They has to have some kind
of of of a test of an eye that it sill,
put the skill that it can pick on so and
and run with that and believe in himself. You have
to believe in yourself.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
You have to believe in yourself. So you always believed
in yourself.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
You're always I never doubt myself.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Talk to us a little bit about those experiences. You know,
our audience in Channel the city, they always have sometimes
doubts and they need to get out of their own heads.
What what the talk to us about some of the
doubts others had in you that you had to fight
and say no, no, no. I believe in myself in
my music. I'm still going to do in my shoe designing.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Right, I never give up. And another way is I
fought for what it was and I didn't let anybody
bring me down. And it was just it was hard
at the beginning. But as you go along and as
you bring certain things and as you believe in yourself,
you go forward and you do the best you can,
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and you bring what it is, and one thing leads
to another and you feel that you accomplish something and
you you've done something that you like. And that's something
that if you you already if you like something, it's
it's it's a winning situation because this way, you know
that it's an easiest way for you to get better
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and do what you like. So you know, a person
needs to know what really likes to and then he
has to believe in himself and that's you know, that's
that's a formula.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
I'm still working on it. I talk to this man
every day about how I'm not making it and how
I'm gonna make it. But you know what, it's ups
and downs and it's life and which is the beauty
of being an artist?
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Right?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
So talk to us about you know you you you
kind of had this American dream where you had a career,
you still had your passion, you got married to our mom,
then you had kids. You know, how did you balance
it all out? And what are your tips for people
to want to who want who want it all? You know?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Well, first of all, I think that family, it's it's
nice if you willing to accept that and have and
and and marriage and and and do what you I mean,
I have a great wife that she's stood by me
all the time, and I have great kids, you know,
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and I can't complain about anything. And it was easier
for me to uh to push myself and and she
pushed me to do what what what I've done? And
you know the rest of it is is what came
out of it. That's the project, the product.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Yeah, it's still a working product. What is your tips
to parents, you know, when they don't agree with their
kids being artists, how should they talk to their kids?
How should they believe it?
Speaker 2 (15:23):
I don't think that their parents should should they should
support him? No, matter what. And a person needs to
know also that if he is if he has talent
and he's good, he needs to believe in himself and
not just that, he also has to listen to order
to find out if this is really who he is
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and what what it brings in. It's it's it's good
enough to to to the public or whatever. So it's
it's with anything else no matter what you do. If
you cook, if you are clothing designer, should design, whatever
whatever skill that you touch, you have to know it.
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You have to love it the rest of it. People
needs to let you know if you if you're good
at it or not.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
What's your advice to those who feel they are good
at it but the door is always closing on them
or there's always a rejection or no, what do you should?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I think that you should continue to fight and continue
love doing what they're doing, and they should they believe it.
They have to believe in themselves and see the dream
that you know that they that they are looking for
it to accomplish something and and go for it.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Like you you're seventy three, Not to bring your age up,
but you're seventy.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Three, that you're going to talk all them.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
It's an inspiredration because my point about it or in
your seventies is that you don't give up.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
You just don't give up and do it.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
You can put your music on YouTube, put your music
on your Spotify.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Now you know all my music I want.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Right now, you can listen to uh Samomari song as
we speak. We're going to do it in the middle
of our ads advertisement section A sneak peek exclusive for
your guys, only your ears. You can catch it on YouTube.
What is it called again? Sheil and Amanhama And that's
the song, so right and right now you can check
it out. And that's the beauty. You could create your
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own platforms, just like I did with podcasting. You know
so a lot of people weren't giving me a chance.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
This is what I this is what I like to see,
if you don't mind to say something is you went
up there and done it all by yourself, without any network,
and you Uh introduced yourself to all the celebrity that
thought that you are some guid of the elephant network
that came over you and you did it by all
by yourself. And I give you a lot of credit.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Well, thank you, but not all by myself. You were
there by my side.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Oh yeah, what I'm just saying you you went out
there and you did it. You did it.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Thank you, which is what I say to the audience,
like everyone needs to know that you need someone supportive.
Like for me, it was always my dad, it was
you know, and I was fortunate to have that. A
lot of people don't have that. But I say, if
you do have that, you keep that like glue, because
you were my rock.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
There was times where I would call you crying. There
was I didn't have money to take a train to
There was times where I was running through obstacles. But
people thought from the outside we had such a good
family life, which, by the way, nothing's perfect. But I
think you've taught us to kind of have this tough skin,
not to really take out your emotions.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Believe in yourself, you know, go out there and do
what you can the best. Yeah, and be original.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
In a general and be yeah, and don't be honest.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
And be straight and be original. That's that's very important.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
That's very important.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
And focus on whatever you do, make sure even details,
small details, whatever it is, always make sure that it's
they come out good.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Now let's talk about your music. What would you say,
you're I guess your your The tone of the music
is so is it different.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
People can like it and people don't have to like it.
Of course anybody and everybody have to think about what
kind of music they like to hear. And it's not
necessary that that I came up with this song, that
that song. Everybody should go for those songs. I mean,
just that I feel close to God and I think
that this is what I really want to continue doing.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
With my This is what helps you through, say guy, but.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
I love any kind of music and I and I
was here at the well the sty the favorites the nineties,
well you know, I went to see Als and what
all this group. No matter what, I always like those
music and I still enjoy it to hear the music
doesn't matter, either the old music or the new music.
(19:53):
And I can I can get to it. I can,
you know, I can understand that. And it's fine. So
it depends on the individual or what you like and
type of music or style life, whatever it is. You
just choose yourself and enjoy it. Music is good than.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Any yeah, ah kind therapeutics, Yes, it's very I mean
even when you know growing up when you would play
the guitar for us and stuff like that. I think
that was something a major thing for me, you know,
because also I'm a DJ. I've done DJing on iHeart Radio.
I've been on the radio station. For me, I think why,
I asked myself, well, how did this all come together?
We had natural talent? Of course you have to you
(20:34):
have to work at the talent and the like you
write every day you go to the recording studio, you
play in thew notes. You're not just going to ask
someone to do it for you. So my point is
is that music you helped us, you taught us music
and art. Would it helps you cope with mental health stuff?
If you're getting too emotional one day, if you're not,
if you're having a bad day, you're giving up hope.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Yeah, music are the really therapeutic therapeutic to any kind
of things. If you're down and if you just listen
to music, music bring you up. And you have to
be always positive, come a good attitude, you know, start
the morning nice and and help yourself up to even
though it's like if you're going to bring energy of negativity,
(21:19):
you're always going to be down and you're going to
be complaining about yourself, right, Just just go positive, just
enjoy life, just do the best you can.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Let's talk about your studio fifty four days, right, which
is one of the hottest clubs. I don't think there
is anything like Studio fifty or four ever. Yeah, talked
us about that experience, especially being a shoe designer.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
That was cool.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Well, you know, at the rebel was outside and he
would and you've gone in, I've got or.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
He would no, no, I've got in because I had
a very big upful mustage a little and he liked that,
and he like that looks. You know they at the time,
they didn't even.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Know did you do that purposely? No?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
No, the his style.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Okay, so and you're a Jewish man, so you know
we have our frost time. So yeah, oh I had enough,
so you came.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
So I came. And he wanted just a very unique
kind of characters to go into his club. So he
made this club like very famous. This way. I remember
he refused one of the actress. I don't remember, no way,
it was yes, And there was a big deal because
he just picked up and choose who he wanted in
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the club.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
At the time, that's pretty, but that's also an artistic way.
That's why he was in. It was very successful, which
he started the whole Dorman right, exact exclusiveness even you know,
just for people to at clubs. You know, you have
a job like that. Now we have you know, like
Tau group that's kind of similar or a little sister
where I've gone in and by the way I feel
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again this is karmak like I just know how to
get in from the stories you've shared with me. Right,
So it's like a movie. How was that experience going in?
Was it as cracked up as it was to be?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
No, those days was really great. It was like a
lot of freedom and there were a lot of it
now that it was there. No, No, that crime not okay,
crime was why was it one point in the eighties. Yeah,
but but it's it is what it is, and it
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is you can't change. Yeah, you know, I don't want
to get into policy. I'm just saying this is what
it is. You have to have a safe country and
a freedom of speech and enjoy yourself because life is short.
It just have to enjoy life.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
So you're in New York City, you're fat, you're shoe designer.
You're single, then you you know, you meet my mom,
you're going to studio fifty four. What made you want
to become a dad?
Speaker 2 (23:56):
That's a good question. I really I was at the time.
It was a really good time. And I remember my
father used to tell me, you know, if you do
not get married, you don't pass on your soul to
another person. That means you don't produce. And I felt, also,
(24:21):
you know what my time is. Even though I got
married at thirty one years old, I wanted to have
a family. I wanted to have and I fell in
love with you, you know, and she, you know, she
worked for us in the store, I know, and so this,
you know, it went out from there, you know, from
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there I was very happy.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Did you ever think, I guess what would you say,
is what's the secret to a successful marriage? You guys
have been married?
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Of course, there is argument, there is fights, there is screaming,
There is things here and there sometimes times not all
the time, MICUs, not at all.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
But in HER's case, she runs shy lads.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
But it's a sweetheart and she's the best, ever.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
The best I've never seen in my life. I guess
a couple that tries to see the best in each other.
After all the trials.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
You got to work it out, you know. First time
when we got married, went to the honeymoon and I
think it was Bahamas, and we said with an old couple, yeah,
And the women went to the bathroom and and I
asked the old guy. I said to him, tell me
how long you can be married? So it says to
me fifty or something like that, sister, So how did
(25:39):
you do it? He said, we got to work it out.
I didn't understand what he meant by now, but he
meant like work it out little by little. You know
that if you really want a good life, you have
to you know, you have to have partner with you
and you have to agree or disagree. It's up to
(25:59):
the there's situation, but still work it out.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Have you have you ever met a or made a
song for her? Maybe you should start?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Okay, maybe it should start.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
You never wrote a song for her the romantic that
you are?
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (26:17):
No, wow, okay, maybe next song, maybe next album?
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (26:22):
How important? Would you say? Love and romance is very important?
You should be making should we be making it? Part
of our full time job as well as our careers
and are you know the way we take care of ourselves?
Should it be something part of our routine?
Speaker 2 (26:37):
And which way talking about?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
You know, some people don't want to make time for love, right,
they've been jaded, they've been hurt.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Ye're right, but you have to make you have to
make that time, and you have to forget and forgive
and you have to continue going forward. And I guess
you have to wait the situation and if if, if
you have a good lady or a good man, you
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know you have to treat each other nice. That's that's
the secret of it. I guess you know, you have
to be honest and yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Respect each other, respect each other without respect exactly. Hopefully
one of these days I will get married soon.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Oh i'lph my if I hulda?
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Would that be upsetting to you? Disappointing?
Speaker 2 (27:24):
If I never got married, Well, i'd love to, you know,
I'd love to have some grandkids, meaning you.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I'd love to have a baby too. Yeah, well, hopefully
it's gonna hopefully soon. We'll pray. Next song will be
about that, Okay, But you know, I think you have
to also work hard at praying every day. I think
everything is work if you want things.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
You know what I mean. I wanted to give a
shut to. I want to talk about the music. Yeah,
that's the one that I the song that I wrote. Yeah,
and I was looking for musician that I could put
the song together with the sam melody that I really liked, right,
and I couldn't find one until we went to Israel
(28:06):
last year, me in Danna and and I walked the
street and I heard a background of music and it
was so attractive. And I went out there and I
met this bunch of three guys, of four guys that
were playing the instrument. One was in violin and then
(28:27):
you know, trump, and then one in the corner. I
really loved the music and they were extremely great. I
took the card from them and we arranged to do
and put the song together. And I wanted just to
mention those guys please shout. I think you shout them
out on the song right now.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
You can check it out. Shell and a Shama. I'm
gonna just give yeah, we have it here, I think
so the soul lyrics is I'm sorry production, We're gonna
shout out Dawn, Eli Melev and Nils Rossi. The drums
were by A Nieve Cohen and the guitar with shim
on Ye Yeah yeah, keyboards and programming by Dawn Eli
(29:08):
Meneth and Neil Siossi. The accordion you talked about was
Mattan mis Rafri Violins by near Siosi, And we're gonna
also put it in the description of the podcasts. So right,
so we're gonna shout you guys out. We're also going
to talk about the English lyrics.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Yeah, you have it.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Here's a part that says, the Tree of Life is
for its holders and happy supporters. Talk to us a
little bit about what you meant by those words. The
tree of life is for its holders and happy supporters.
So I know in Hebrew means something different.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Well, the trio of Love is Life is really talking
about the whole Bibles, the whole to okay, and so
in the Jewish tradition is you know, you got to
solve and if you going to follow that path of
of of the I mean it's not necessarily good. I mean,
(30:09):
I'm not referring to anybody or it's just the way
I feel that way. Okay. So the Tree of Song
is like you have to follow up the way God
wants you to follow it's you have to make your choice.
You have a true choice, free will, right, But you're
saying you can go the whole thing. So because in
(30:33):
Neghbwood sounds different. Right.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
So here's some of the lyrics I'll read. I received
the gifts A pure soul. I thank you, my God.
The soul that you blew into me. It's all clean
and a white soul. The soul that you gave to me.
She breathes life. She breathes life into me. A sigh
of relief. The tree of life is for its holders
and happy supporters. Her ways are pleasant ways, and all
(30:56):
it and all its paths are peace. Piece piece melody
to you, Oh God, I will carry my prayers for you,
the Lord of all things, You are, the Almighty God.
The soul that you blew into me, she wonders around,
looking for the rest and peace. This soul that you
planted in me repents. The tree of life is for
its holders and happy supporters. Her ways are pleasant ways,
(31:18):
and all its paths are piece piece piece. So basically,
you're writing a song for you know. It's a beautiful song,
by the way, It's a gorgeous, gorgeous lyrics, and it's
it's I know it's from the heart, and it's a
great production you did to get together, you know, producing.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Right, So I just wanted to mention, yes, guys again,
so we gave them.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Yeah, shame on, Yeah, yeah, we gave all the shout outs.
We're gonna also put the shout outs in the description, guys,
as Chanel in the City audience, you could look in
under the description on each podcast platform, We're going to
give you links and all the credits for the musicians
and the co writers with you and the co producers,
right right, So anything else you I wanted to talk
about this song as well that meant something to you.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
I mean it's just that. No, it's just it's good
to me. It's not necessarily I'm not You're not pushing
on in everyone, Yeah, exactly, I'm not pushing any people.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Were struggling with their faith or struggling with you know,
ups and downs in life. For what they are being lost,
I think it's a great song for them to check out.
I think it's a great song for the you to
tune in.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
I tune in on YouTube, you have it in.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
iTunes, Apple podcasts, you have it on Spotify, which you
can go check out right now, we're gonna have it.
We're gonna give you guys an exclicive peak on our
iHeart radio platform. You can only listen to it on
iHeart Radio right now. Download the iHeart Radio app Chanel
in the city and you'll be able to get it
towards the end of this podcast. So stay tuned, don't
go in anywhere. Let's talk about a little bit about
(32:46):
your history in Israel growing up. What kind of kid
were you?
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Were? You a player?
Speaker 1 (32:52):
You were a troublemaker when you're a good kid.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
I was.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
I was just a streets where you're a street kid.
You were a street kid. Tell us about three kid
to a religious man, a Jewish religious man. Talk to
us about that journey. Why were you a street kid?
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Well, the timing was different, and we were. It was
a beautiful time for us. There was no TV, no telephone,
no this. We played outside. Everything was really uh and
what you see is what you get and uh. I
was brought up very nicely. The thing is I was
I think at the time that was we didn't discover
a d D had. It's probably that that's why I
(33:33):
was like more of a you know, out on the
street of playing a lot and what we had a
very very nice life.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
You had fat brothers, right, and yeah, I had five
brothers and six. How was it growing up in a
big family like that?
Speaker 2 (33:49):
It was great? It was the best because there was
no we didn't have much much of a luxury or
money and but wedn't live nice, you know, and uh,
we all got along with each other and we having
a really great time the holidays, the games that we played,
(34:11):
the radio that we listened to. At the time, there
was no TV, and slowly, you know, then started to
you know, all this came up and we had a.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Really nice childhood.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Yeah, that nice child upbringing? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Yeah, right, And now how do you feel, you know,
without getting to political, obviously, Israel is a big part
of your life. It's a big part of my identity
and what's whatever going on in the world. I'm not
going to get into details because we've been talking about
it on the podcast a lot, and you guys can
tune into other episodes with other Israeli activists that we've
had on the podcast or Jewish people. Has it ever
(34:48):
been this bad? At least because you've grown up there,
you've seen the conflict people, and there is really but
it's more I'll let you explain a little bit, but
it's more of their government and extremists. It's not the
palstoning people. No, because you've even shown me. I've been
into Israel and we've seen Arabs that have that are
Muslims that have lived very nicely with us, and and
and then there's the extremist. So tell us how it
(35:09):
was then growing up, and then tell us how it
is now. Well, from your perspective, it doesn't from your perspective,
the culture just living it.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Look then we lived side by side, and uh, well
even at the time, you know, there was some villages
of ours that the readies went out and that they
are the food tradition of the we're at the same
time they came over to us and my father had
people that worked with him. It was okay, it was good.
(35:44):
You know.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
I guess why do you think it became so bad?
Speaker 2 (35:48):
It's I don't have the answer to that because I
don't want to get into politics. I just think that
having peace in life, it's it's is the best things
that could happen, if that possible, if it would, if
it would be happening. But the other work out. I think,
(36:11):
I think that it's possible. Yes, it is, of course.
If you don't think positive, you might as well. You know,
you don't have any dreams. You don't you don't do what.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Has there ever been a time you can remember that
the Israelies and Arabs were better in a better place.
I'm not obviously not now. I'm saying ever the seventies eighties,
because I don't know.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Listen, Israel is a democratic country and they're given awful
lot of opportunity to people to come in there, and
we have all sorts of people from all countries, and
and we don't discriminate. There is people in the government,
the Arab and and thanks. I don't know. The situation is.
(36:51):
It is what it is you. It's happening everywhere right now,
So things are changing. Hopefully.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
I hope we can have peace, brank friendness, millions in
both sides everywhere. We don't want war. War was never
an answer for if you never taught you know, it's
not You've always taught us how to be in peace
and just raised with love. More so, for me, it's
very hard to wrap my head on around it whether
(37:19):
or are whether Israeli, whether you're I just don't settle
or stand in my audience nose for terrorism and violence
and hatred and that can come in all forms. And
I don't think that's okay with with any race. And
I agree with you, and we all have to accept
each other human race and stick together against people who
are just violent in general. Right, so brank for better days.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
It has to be respect, you know, I think we're
missing this kind of uh word and respect me just
to be respected. It's I right, and people treat each
other nice and even now it's still okay, But I
mean you have to uh not lose those value, right
you know, you goes people today talking the way they want,
(37:59):
they say what they want. They don't have any so
but overall we have a This is a great cut.
This is a great country, great country, and it's the
land of opportunity. It is a lend of opportunity.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
You're an example.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
You can make Yeah, you can make it the way
you think that you want to have it. So if
you want to have a good life, you you you could,
you could. It could happen here where in different countries
that I don't want to mention names, but you don't.
You can't. You can't get to what it is over here.
(38:35):
So I hope that this country would stay free and
you could have that h a piece with each other.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Amen. Do you think how important is it though to
have your Israeli identity if you are in Israeli or
someone for me like your daughter teaching your kids? Or
should we be scared to be Jewish in this country? Like?
How important is it to not have fear?
Speaker 2 (38:56):
No?
Speaker 1 (38:56):
You have you have to you have Listen, how do
you be proud of your identity? I guess we should
ask you.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
Should always stand for who you are. And you're not
doing anything by if you're not speaking up and you
cannot identified yourself and and and and have uh another voice?
I mean, what what what you're supposed to do? This
is this country was always uh a free country and
(39:27):
I I I hope it's going to continue and uh
that we can live with each other here in peace.
You know, we never had any problem. I mean even
there you do have certain things, but this wasn't like
what is happening now. But I'm very optimistic that it's
going to be good and life.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Is going to be better, right too, better, Let's transition
a little bit and go back to artists that maybe
from for future music you're going to make. Are there
any artists both American or israelly that you that you've
dreamt of working with that you never worked with before.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Hmm. I can't think of anybody right now. I mean,
there are so many great artists that they are, they
are fantastic and all sort of music that they can
be any kind of music. And then you know, I
would love to see myself working with saying people that
(40:30):
they are, that they're good. I just don't know if
my music can fits into their music. And it might
be because you might you can put maybe rap music
with the remix. Yeah, we talked about mix.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
That we talked about like the soil see you with
like a like a Drake remix or like that's my
vision my dream or you know in the clubs, but
remixing something spiritual with something cool even ASoP rocky people,
you know, those rappers who are really their artists as well.
You know, that would be cool. Maybe we see stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
You know, never know, you never know. You gotta really
feel for whatever you want to and it doesn't matter
what hits you and doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
What I say, doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
You got to do what you do exactly and love
doing what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
That's what you taught me. I think a lot of
people ask me like, what do you mean you're a DJ?
What do you mean you're a comedian? And then you're
an actress, which is all in the art form, And
I know people want you to do one thing successful
so you could be known for others. But I think
because I was raised by you to literally try whatever
you want to do and that's okay, which is a blessing.
I think that's where it came from. And now it
makes more sense, you know, knowing more about you and
(41:37):
getting to know you more because you always fill the
house with a lot of humor.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
You know, a lot of times you always had a
good time.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
That's what I was gonna ask, you know, how do
you cope with life if you're having a hard time.
You taught me how to just have a sense of
humor about things, not always you know, crying is not
going to solve it, and complaining is not going to
do anything about it. So it's always about you know,
which is why because you.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Always have to find your place and time and you know,
it's very important to have a good middle How do
you send.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
Me values morals side? Okay, what's the next song that
we can tune in that you're working on. What's some
new music? Share?
Speaker 2 (42:15):
We're going something right now, hopefully, I hope you know.
We're leaving to uh to Israel, God willing, and let's
see what it comes out of it. We'll talk about
it when when it come.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
When it comes out. Anything that is going to be
a little different than this type of genre, gonne be
some Israeli music, something to dance to.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
Yeah, i'd like to you know, we'll see album is album.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
In the future coming or you like to release single.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
I'm going to release singles. That's it, you know, Okay.
Speaker 1 (42:43):
I'ney thank you dad for betiful.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
Proud of you, my heart, I'll say thanks, You're real,
truly talented. Thank you you heard you are and thank
you and uh you know, to realize that you have
to look at you and and understand where you came
from and what you did by yourself, without any network,
how you put yourself up to do what you did.
(43:12):
I'm very proud of you and I wish you all
the best.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
I love it thank you. I also want you guys
to know that it wasn't easy right for me. A
lot of people want to know now that I have
you here like how it was for me, you know,
growing up, and just a lot of people can judge
and make decisions based on your family. You know you
raised as well. I definitely came from a little background
because you worked very hard, but you also taught us
to work very hard. And there was times you even
(43:35):
came on trains with me where we didn't have money
or we had didn't work hard. Just I'll share it
with people, well, you know, because that wasn't our culture,
wasn't a lot of psycles to get law still not
in and where we want to be right.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
But I thank God for every day that that it's
a bonus day that I can get up in the
morning and I get feel well and I enjoyed seeing
my family, my friends in smite and just just just
be myself and enjoy life.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
Do you feel like being thankful and closer to God
and manifestation Pocitific helped you through all these herds?
Speaker 2 (44:10):
Oh yes, yes, miracles definitely. I mean coming close to
those are open, things are happening, easy, life. You know,
you have to believe, and you have to believe in
the creative. He's the one that put us over here
and for whatever reason is and if we have to
come here just to fix ourself, whatever it is, we
(44:32):
should really thank him and be always appreciate what, you know,
what we experience to come to world like that and
see whatever it is, whatever the day it brings you on.
I love that.
Speaker 1 (44:44):
I'm definitely trying to learn that advice or take that
advice and work on it, and we're praying for better days.
You know, something about me is and everybody my audience
knows is that we're all a work in progress, and
it's step by step. It's day by day and we
try our best.
Speaker 2 (44:59):
That's it, and so you could do.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
When I was growing up with you, Yes, is, being
Israeli and Jewish was a big part of my identity
because you raised us with that and Jewish school and
everything like that. But I remember in society with mainstream
I wanted to be famous and a lot of in popularity,
a lot of people didn't accept me, and I didn't
realize how much anti Semitism there was. It was always internalized.
I internalized it. I didn't talk about it out loud.
(45:21):
Then I grew up and I realized I didn't talk
a lot about it on my podcast. So I'm happy
you're here to talk about a Hebrew song because and
that we're proud of it, because it makes me feel
like we came a long way where it used to
feel taboo, and it shouldn't feel taboo because being Jewish
is beautiful. And whatever is going on in the world,
any kind of any kind of religion and nationality, now,
as long as you're coming for the love, it is beautiful, exactly,
(45:44):
and nobody should accept it. People out there is still
what's going on in the world, and I just want
you guys to know a little piece of us. We're
praying for peace. We're praying for better days of course. Samamuri,
thank you my father being here and giving birth to me. Guys,
sheil Anshama. You can catch right now on YouTube, Spotify, iTunes,
and Apple Music. You can catch an exclusive premiere tune
(46:06):
on my podcast channel in the City on iHeartRadio right
Now Don't Go Away, and you can follow sam O
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We wouldn't be here without you. I appreciate your support.
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Go on to Apple Podcasts right now, rate me five stars.
Leave your positive comment reviews. Please do not leave negative
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we love you, cocinators. Thank you so much for tuning in,
and thank you so much for seeing my father and
listening to his music. Sila and Eshama.
Speaker 2 (46:46):
Thank you song of the soul.
Speaker 1 (46:49):
Trust me, you'll thank me later. Listen to it. It
will make you feel better and more driven and we
hope for better days. Love you, cocinators.
Speaker 2 (46:55):
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