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CELEBRITY JEWS

from page 52

BETTY COMDEN, for the revival
of Wonderful Town.

very spiritual.
Also competing in the Best Pop
Instrumental Performance category
is Jewish pop legend HERB
ALPERT, for his song "Chasing
Shadows." In the related Best Pop
Instrumental Album category,
you'll find Grammy winner DAVE
KOZ, a practicing Jew, for

Holidays. Incubus is nominated for
Best Hard Rock Performance for
The Best Album Notes category
"Megalomaniac."
isn't that exciting, but the Jewish
The Beastie Boys, rap music pio-
nominees are great chroniclers of
neers, are nominated for Best Rap
popular culture. SEAN
Performance by a Duo or Group
WILENTZ, a Princeton historian,
("Ch-check It Out") and Best Rap
wrote the notes for Bob Dylan —
Album (To the 5 Boroughs). In the
The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6, 1964. He
past, the Beasties (MIKE DIA-
competes with PAUL KRASSNER,
Saxophonic.
MOND, ADAM HOROVITZ and
a semi-famous 1960s journalist,
RAY BENSON is the towering
ADAM YAUCH) have self-defined
who penned the notes for a CD
Jewish cowboy who leads the
themselves more as "white guys" in
featuring the late Jewish comedic
famous country band Asleep at the
a black music genre than as Jews.
legend Lenny Bruce (Let the Buyer
Wheel. Benson, a member of an
While Jewish fans have perceived
Beware).
Austin, Texas, synagogue, is dou-
them to be Jewish, in fact
Jewish comedians up for Best
ble-nominated for Best Country
Horovitz's mother isn't Jewish,
Comedy Album include ROBERT
Performance NVith Vocal by a Duo
Yauch is now a devout Buddhist
SMIGEL for Come Poop with Me,
or Group (for "New San Antonio
and none has a religious Jewish
featuring Triumph, the Insult
Rose") and Best Country
background. Nonetheless, in their
Comic Dog; AL FRANKEN, for
Instrumental ("Billy in the Low
latest CD, they do make a few ref-
The OTranken Factor Factor, and
Ground").
erences to being Jewish, a first for
JON STEWART,
the group.
for America: A
In the Best New Artist
Citizen's Guide to
category, there's the mega-
Democracy Inaction.
selling L.A. band Maroon
A world away
5, lead by songwriter-lead
from these guys is
vocalist ADAM LEVINE,
the most touching
who just happens to be
nomination. In the
movie-star handsome. The
category of Best
band also is nominated for
Traditional World
Best Pop Performance by a
Music Album is
Duo or Group for "She
Abayudaya: The
Up for top awards: (left to right) Adam Levine of
Will Be Loved."
Music of the Jews of
Maroon 5, Dan Estrin of Hoobastank and Miri Ben-Ari
Also Jewish is DAN
Uganda, a unique
ESTRIN, the co-leader of
collection of
the California band
African-Jewish music in which the
You can dance to Benson's music ; Hoobastank, which broke big this
rhythms and harmonies of Africa
and you can dance to the music of
year and competes with Maroon 5
blend with Jewish celebration and
the Scissor Sisters. The somewhat
for Best Pop Performance for "The
traditional Hebrew prayer.
campy band that broke huge in
Reason." Estrin also is nominated
Another unusual group is
Britain and big in America this
for Song of the Year (in any genre)
Ozomalti, an eclectic band that
year is nominated for Best Dance
for co-writing "The Reason.' The
combines Latin, hip-hop and rock
Recording ("Comfortably Numb"):
group's album, The Reason, is nom-
influences. This multi-ethnic group The band's co-leader is SCOTT
inated for Best Rock Album.
includes Jewish bassist WIL-DOG
HOFFM_AN, who goes by the
Last, but not least; is the aston-
ABERS. The band is up for Best
improbable name of "Baby Daddy." ishing Israeli-born violinist MIRI
Latin Rock-Alternative Album.
In the marquee categories that
BEN-ARV. She's pretty, she served
Less unusual is the nomination
they actually presented on TV,
in the Israeli army and she has
of entertainers CATHY FINK and
there are yet more members of the
played Jewish music and jazz with
Marcy Marxer for Best Musical
tribe.
the best. But in the last few years,
Album for Children for their latest
The famous Canadian trio Rush,
she has become the pioneer of hip-
CD, cELLAbration: A Tribute to
anchored by Jewish bassist GEDDY hop/rap violin. Her collaboration
Ella Jenkins. They've received mul-
LEE, is nominated for Best Rock
with rap artist Kanye West snared
tiple Grammy nominations and
Instrumental Performance for
her two Grammy nominations for
won last year.
"Rush in Rio." The son of
co-writing "Jesus Walks," up for
BEN HARPER, the son of a
Song of the Year (any genre) and
Holocaust survivors, Lee has elo-
Jewish mother and a black-Native
quently spoke about how impor-
Best Rap Song. Li
American father, is up for two
tant his family's history is to him.
Grammys (Best Pop Instrumental
Also not reluctant to talk about
Nate Bloom is the California-based
editor ofwww.jewhoo.com
Performance for "There Will Be a
his Jewish background is MIKE
Light" and Best Gospel
EINZIGER, the guitarist for the
Performance for the same song,
very popular L.A. band Incubus.
The Grammy Awards airs 8-11
sung with the Blind Boys of
He went to Jewish day school for a
p.m. Sunday, Feb. 13, on CBS.
Alabama). Harper refuses to define
couple of years, was a bar mitzvah
himself within a faith but clearly is
and still observes the High