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Musician: Danny Shine
Location: London
Instruments: Keyboards and vocals
Music: Jewish/ Klezmer
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HOW I CAME TO THIS MUSICÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýWHERE I PLAYÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýA FAVOURITE SONG |
  
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 ÌýÌýListen (3'14) to 'Laner Velibesamim' (My Soul Yearns For You Like Fire and Spice)
ÌýÌýListen (7'47) to an audio feature recorded with Danny Shine's band Neshama at the Heathrow Park Hotel. Presented by Max Reinhardt. (Broadcast on Radio 3: 20/4/02)Danny Shine -keyboards and vocals, Robin Bibi - guitar, David Bitelli - sax, Motti Cohen - drums, John Deemer - Bass and Dominic Glover - Trumpet
 ÌýÌýWatch (3'36) a video of a wedding featuring Danny Shine's band (with thanks to the Shoolman family)
'When I was a child, we all sang round the table on a Friday every week to see the Sabbath in…..'
How I came to this music:
I'm Danny Shine. I run a band called Neshama and we play at weddings, barmitzvahs and batmitzvahs. We do funerals as well actually…we've one booked for late December hopefully, as long as the person involved does us the favour of dying.
 I'm a singer and bandleader mainly, but I play keyboards too. I come from a musical family: my father was a cantor, both my parents play piano and we all sing. We all sang round the table on a Friday every week to see Shabbat (the Sabbath) in. Becoming a full time musician fell into my lap. Many years ago, when I was at university, I was asked by a couple to get a little band together for their wedding. They didn't have any money so we did it for free. In the end they found the money to pay us, but that was the beginning of it all. Since then it's turned into quite a big and successful business.
I put together more than one band on a particular day so that for example today there are two bands out playing. I'd say that last year we did about 110 functions. All our gigs are in the community at the moment, though I'd like to look at diversifying. I do such a large number of very different types of functions that we tend to use different musicians for different events. Not all of the band members are Jewish but they all like playing Jewish music. I've worked in this business now for 15 years and I've gone through a large number of musicians. You learn quite quickly who's done this kind of thing before.
I draw my repertoire from a very wide range - everything from the Klezmer, the Hassidic /Israeli /ethnic side if you like, all the way through to lots of cover versions: soul, pop, international, Middle Eastern: Moroccan, Iraqi occasionally, but certainly Israeli …. we even do some classical.
How would I define Jewish music? With difficulty. There's klezmer, there's Israeli style dance, there's folk Israeli, there's Hassidic. It takes influences from all sorts of different areas of music and it's always changing. There are also people who bring out new Hassidic Pop which is a kind of Rock music with Jewish words.
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