Motty Steinmets

Yisrael Baruch Mordechai "Motty" Steinmetz is a prominent Hasidic singer. Biography Steinmetz was born in 1992 to a Vizhnitz family in Bnei Brak. Motty is the son of Rabbi Moshe and Rebecca Steinmetz, and the fourth of nine children. When Steinmetz was fourteen, his grandfather moved from Antwerp, Belgium, to Israel and taught him many traditional Vizhnitz tunes which influenced his musical style. In his early teens, he was spotted by producer and composer Ruvi Banet, who would later become his manager. Steinmetz sings religious Jewish songs, with the lyrics often being taken directly from scripture or prayers, and is known for the great emotion he puts into his music. In accordance with his ultra-Orthodox interpretation of the Jewish laws of modesty, he never performs to mixed audiences of men and women, unless there is a mechitza (separation). He has also visited a hospitals in Israel to sing to an accident victim. In 2017, he released his debut album Haneshama Bekirbi, with Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel David Lau and the mayors of Bnei Barak and El'ad present at the launch of the album. The album reportedly took four years of work to finish, and achieved platinum certification in Israel.