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Article: matisyahu is all over the music map, and coming here.(Daily Break)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- November 13, 2009
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By Alan Sculley
Correspondent
Matisyahu - a Hasidic Jew from Brooklyn who blended reggae and hip-hop - may have been unique when he came on the scene with his 2004 CD, "Shake Off the Dust ... Rise."
In some ways, however, it's only with his latest CD, "Light," that Matisyahu has become his own man on an artistic level, making a CD that comes closer to the sound and range of music he wants to create.
"I sort of broke away from anyone who was telling me how to make music or what kind of music to make," Matisyahu said in a phone interview during his latest tour, which brings him to Norfolk on Tuesday. "I just sort of went - these are the ...