| 词条 | Prodezra |
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| honorific_prefix = | name = Prodezra | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | landscape = | alt = | caption = | background = solo_singer | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name = Reuben Ezra Formey | alias = Prodezra Beats L'Shem Shamayim | birth_date = 1981 | birth_place = | origin = Savannah, Georgia, United States | death_date = | death_place = | genre = Jewish hip hop | occupation = Rapper, producer | instrument = | years_active = 2009-present | label = | associated_acts = Nosson Zand, Y-Love | website = }} Reuben Ezra Formey (born 1981), known by his stage name Prodezra, is an American Jewish rapper and producer based in Savannah, Georgia. He has released two albums, Until When (2009) and Connection Revealed (2011). He is notable, along with Y-Love, Nissim, and Shyne, as one of several African-American Orthodox Jewish rappers. BiographyEarly lifeFormey was born in Minnesota to Sylvester and Patricia Formey before moving back to their hometown of Savannah, Georgia when he was three. He has an older sister, Roxanne. His grandfather, Henderson Formey Jr., was a Baptist minister and interim superintendent, and the first black leader of the Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools district.[1][2] Sylvester Formey was introduced to Chabad by Rabbi Manis Friedman while attending college in the 1970s, and the family formally converted in 1993, shortly before Reuben's bar mitzvah.[3][4] He was interested in music from a young age, using his cousin's Casio keyboard to sample and mix his collection of pop, rock, and metal tapes. He was also influenced by his parent's love of jazz and classical before discovering hip hop.[1] He graduated from Alfred E. Beach High School in 1999 and attended Georgia Institute of Technology, where he continued to make beats. During this time, he began to fall away from his family's faith and "got involved in things I shouldn't have been involved in" until he "realized I was getting pulled out of these situations when other people weren't...I started to realize there was something to this."[1] After finishing his degree in business management, he moved to Israel and studied in yeshiva at Mayanot Institute, which he would later dedicate a song on his second album to. There, he was encouraged by various rabbis and mentors to combine his music with his faith.[1][5] CareerFormey produced the 2009 Shemspeed single "Change" featuring Y-Love and DeScribe, which later appeared on his debut album Until When and on Y-Love and DeScribe's joint album The Change EP.[1] Until When also featured "The South Niggun", a collaboration with Hasidic singer Eli Lipsker.[5] In 2010, he released the online-only Proud to Be EP.[5] He was featured on the Jewish website G-dcast with an animated music video for Rosh Hashanah, "Shofar Callin'".[6] He also filmed a video for the album's title track. In 2011, he released his second album, Connection Revealed. The album was promoted with the song "Tree of Life", a collaboration with fellow Mayanot alum Nosson Zand. The album also included "Money On Your Mind (G-d's Message)", a rebuttal to Snoop Dogg's "Gin and Juice".[4] He performed with Y-Love at a benefit for victims of the Mount Carmel forest fire organized by UW–Madison students Jeremy Greenberg and Zac Miller, as well as at a public menorah lighting in Charleston, South Carolina, organized by Rabbi Yossi Refson and the College of Charleston.[4] Several of his songs were played on WREK during a January 2012 edition of their Kosher Noise program.[7] In July 2015, he performed at the ModernTribe event "Twelve Tribes: Celebrating Jews of All Colors".[8][9] In December, he performed on the court at Philips Arena for the Atlanta Hawks' Jewish Heritage Night event, which included a menorah lighting and preceded a game against the San Antonio Spurs.[3][10] He is currently hosting a campaign on the crowdfunding website Jewcer to produce his third album, Face to Face.[11] ArtistryAs a producer, Formey utilizes the Roland Fantom-X, Kontakt, and Screwlab to create beats.[12] Formey's lyrics draw from his Jewish faith, although he adds that "[A] lot of the songs have a universal message of positivity."[1] He has cited Matisyahu as a role model for being an observant Jew in mainstream music.[4] As a teenager, he was influenced by artists like Public Enemy, Phil Collins, Metallica, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, and Outkast.[2] He has also noted a Southern hip hop influence, saying, "I kind of stepped out there and took on certain issues in a Southern, Jewish, hip hop way...That's what I think is unique about my sound. You can hear the Southern sound, hear my voice in the music."[1] He has listed among his top hip-hop albums Goodie Mob's Soul Food, Witchdoctor's A S.W.A.T. Healin' Ritual, Gang Starr's Moment of Truth, Outkast's ATLiens, and Nas' Illmatic.[12] DiscographyAlbums
EPs
Singles
As producer
References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{cite web|author1=Dana Clark Felty|title=Jewish, black, hip hop performer|url=http://savannahnow.com/accent/2010-12-10/jewish-black-hip-hop-performer#|publisher=Savannah Morning News|accessdate=6 March 2016|date=Dec 2010}} {{Contemporary Jewish religious music}}2. ^1 {{cite web|author1=Jessica Lebos|title=Prodezra Beats: The Interview|url=http://www.yoyenta.com/prodezra-beats-the-interview/|publisher=Yo, Yenta!}} 3. ^1 {{cite web|author1=David Cohen|title=Positive Rap to Set Beat at Hawks Game|url=http://atlantajewishtimes.com/2015/12/positive-rap-to-set-beat-at-hawks-game/|publisher=Atlanta Jewish Times|date=Dec 3, 2015}} 4. ^1 2 3 {{cite web|author1=Mindy Rubenstein|title=A Jewish spin on Snoop Dogg|url=http://www.jpost.com/Arts-and-Culture/Music/A-Jewish-spin-on-Snoop-Dogg|publisher=The Jerusalem Post|date=Jan 21, 2012}} 5. ^1 2 {{cite web|author1=Ben Bresky|title=Hasidic Hip Hop Beats with ProdEzra|url=https://archive.org/details/IsraelBeat-HasidicHipHopBeatsWithProdezra|publisher=Arutz Sheva|archivedate=Dec 28, 2010|date=March 22, 2010}} 6. ^{{cite web|title=Shofar Callin': A Story for Rosh Hashanah|url=http://www.g-dcast.com/rosh-hashanah/|publisher=G-dcast|date=2010}} 7. ^{{cite web|title=Kosher Noise Playlist 1/30/12 with Prodezra Beats|url=http://www.wrek.org/2012/01/kosher-noise-playlist-13012-with-prodezra-beats/|publisher=WREK|accessdate=7 March 2016}} 8. ^{{cite web|author1=Logan C. Ritchie|title=A Store of Diversity: ‘Moorish’ Intern Inspires ModernTribe Event|url=http://atlantajewishtimes.com/2015/07/a-store-of-diversity-moorish-intern-inspires-moderntribe-event/|publisher=Atlanta Jewish Times|date=July 27, 2015}} 9. ^{{cite web|author1=Rodney Carmichael|title=ModernTribe to celebrate Jews of all colors on Sweet Auburn|url=http://clatl.com/freshloaf/archives/2015/07/31/moderntribe-to-celebrate-jews-of-all-colors-on-sweet-auburn|publisher=Creative Loafing|date=July 31, 2015}} 10. ^{{cite web|author1=David Cohen|title=Hawks Lit Up on Chanukah|url=http://atlantajewishtimes.com/2015/12/hawks-lit-up-on-chanukah/|publisher=Atlanta Jewish Times|date=Dec 15, 2015}} 11. ^{{cite web|title=Join Reuben "Prodezra" Formey's Project!!!|url=http://jewcer.com/project/join-reuben-prodezra-formey-s-project|publisher=Jewcer|date=Jan 2015}} 12. ^1 {{cite web|title=Sitting Down with Prodezra (exclusive interview)|url=http://shemspeed.com/sitting-down-with-prodezra-exclusive-interview/|publisher=Shemspeed|date=2009}} 9 : Jewish rappers|Jewish hip hop record producers|African-American Jews|Musicians from Savannah, Georgia|Georgia Institute of Technology alumni|1981 births|American Orthodox Jews|Baalei teshuva|Living people |
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