Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Collage of ex-Hasidic reggae singer Matisyahu at home in Piermont, NY holding a microphone and candles, photo by Michael Falco.

In February, a school nurse phoned Matthew Paul Miller, the Jewish reggae singer and rapper who plays under his Hebrew name, Matisyahu, with bad news. His three boys had lice. Again. Matisyahu has ...

As Chasidic reggae artist Matisyahu’s second album tops sales charts, some critics raise questions of cultural appropriation. Others venture that the singer may have found a perfect marketing hook.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - It's not easy being a big celebrity in a close-knit Orthodox Jewish community. Hasidic reggae star Matisyahu, who achieved unlikely pop success in 2005 with the single "King ...

Reggae artist Matisyahu has had the House of Blues in Chicago cancel his scheduled performance Friday because of the “threat of protests.” Matisyahu said that House of Blues had canceled the show and ...

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Has Orthodox reggae star Matishayu severed his ties with Chabad-Lubavitch? Is he a bad influence on religious youth? And is he still frum? Blogs have been buzzing over these questions since Matisyahu ...

MOBILE, Alabama-- If music is all about the journey, inside and far out, then those who make the pilgrimage to the Soul Kitchen Music Hall in downtown Mobile tonight had better pack their bags.

It has been called the beard-shaving heard, or at least viewed on the Twitter photo-sharing site yfrog, around the world. A year ago, the singer Matisyahu, who goes by "Matis" (pronounced like "modest ...

Critics aren't supposed to cry at concerts. But I did. Listening to reggae artist Matisyahu perform, I cried. In a Midwestern city, in the heat of midsummer dusk, standing midway between the stage and ...

When Matisyahu’s signature dreidel-shaped disco ball is lowered and the devoutly religious reggae-rapper takes the mike at the 9:30 Club on Wednesday, it probably won’t be his music that fans are ...