About Me - the long version...

I was born in Montreal, but I grew up in Brooklyn. By "grew up", I mean "got shamed and put down by my classmates and peers for being weird, until I eventually decided to make that a permanent part of my personality".

I started singing and playing piano at the age of 4, guitar at the age of 14, and was drumming on tables at the tender age of 2.

The first song I ever composed was called "Re'eh", in 2010. I had to compose it, after bragging to a friend that I could easily write a typical Jewish song in under 10 minutes. It came up during a conversation about how all the orthodox Jewish music we were exposed to was so repetitive and homogenous. The worst part about this was that in Yeshiva, we were only allowed to listen to Jewish music. With all male singers, religious-themed words, and - I'm not sure about this one, but - I think another requirement was for every song to be made in the harmonic minor scale, using only Am, Dm, and E7.

It turned out that he liked the song, and that tiny bit of external validation pushed me just enough to start composing more original music.

Fast forward to 2014. I was drifting away from the religious sincerity of my youth, and looking for the most extreme personality traits to add to my ideal formation of a Very Cool Person, who I was intent on becoming. I had just discovered Eminem very recently, and having heard nothing like it before, decided to become just like him. I stopped singing, and instead, started writing some very embarrassing raps. I learnt very quickly that nobody occupying my sphere of existence had the smallest shred of interest in hearing them. So I went on Facebook and found an underground hip-hop community called RapSkool (shoutout Dan San for the hookup, shoutout Chef, and Jetson!). I started going there Sundays to "cypher" (smoke weed) and "cypher" (freestyle). I learnt a lot about almost everything I had known nothing about previously.

I spent two years trying to become a hip-hop artist. All the while, my best rapper buds were telling me "you definitely can flow, but your singing is where it's at!..." Still, all I wrote and listened to was hip-hop. I avoided the whole melodic part of my soul. It was not very cool, and to me, it was the old Tzvi.

But then, in 2016, I met a dear friend by the name of Yoni Krakauer (find him on instagram @music_of_yoni).

Yoni taught me a whole bunch of life lessons that I have deeply internalized over the past few years, but one of the most important things that he did was bring me back to the singing I had been shying away from for so long.

Since then, my music took a sharp turn, and rolled over on it's side, and smashed all the windows. But slowly, my radically varying experiences and influences have started to come together in the shape of this person you find before you today, writing this silly bio at 4:00 AM.

I make music not to be heard, but to be listened to. I make music for sleepless nights, frightening unknowns, frolicking in the forest... I make music for rock bottom, and the highest mountain peaks. Rock tops, if you will. I make music to cry to, music to smile about, music for when you're numb and feeling nothing at all.

I love you all. Especially if you got this far down the page. You must be insanely curious about who tf wrote this. Want to know me more? Check out my music.