09.12.09
Source:
S.P. Sullivan
Last weekend I had the opportunity to meet musician Matisyahu and shoot some footage at his surprise performance at Smith College. After the performance, I sat down for an interview with the him about his new record, “Light.†I spent a few days before the concert and the interview doing some homework on Matisyahu, and he seemed to be a pretty interesting guy. But I noticed something peculiar about the tenor of the interviews I read: They all seemed to focus much more on his Hasidic Jewish faith than his music, and some even tried to bring in Jewish identity politics into the equation, even though Matis has, on numerous occasions, said that “music and politics is two different things.†...