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When Sam Glaser began his professional career in music, he never expected that he’d end up a Jewish music performer, let alone embracing the path with such passion.

Glaser, who grew up with a pianist mother and a trumpet-playing father in the tiny Brentwood neighborhood, has been on a musical and spiritual journey since recording his first Jewish song to help Soviet émigrés fifteen years ago. With more than a dozen CDs under his belt, Sam Glaser’s life is a busy one, including regular tours of venues from amphitheaters to synagogues to summer camps in the Diaspora and summertime concerts in Israel.

Despite an upbringing in a very musical and Zionist home, his parents wanted him to be more than just a musician. As a result, this Jewish pop singer who was ranked by Moment Magazine as one of the top-ten Jewish performers, left home seeking to become a Renaissance man. And it’s that very ideology that has driven him to create such diverse music. While never content t...