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Music · BasyaTunes · 2012Hagar
6 min
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Hagar

A complete Pharaoh's Daughter song from Schechter's own channel, built on a Hebrew text and carried by her voice over oud and percussion.

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Meet Basya Schechter.

Basya Schechter

Basya Schechter grew up in the Hasidic community of Borough Park in Brooklyn and founded the band Pharaoh's Daughter in 1995, while she was a student at Barnard College. She sings and plays oud, guitar, saz and percussion, and the band's sound mixes Jewish song and klezmer with folk and Middle Eastern music. Her solo album Songs of Wonder sets the Yiddish poems of Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Kabbalachia, made with Shaul Magid, sets the Kabbalat Shabbat liturgy to Appalachian old-time music. She serves as cantor and music director at the Romemu congregation in New York, and as cantor at the Fire Island Synagogue.

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Concealment & the hidden light

Kabbalah

The Jewish mystical tradition centred on hidden dimensions of scripture and the nature of the divine, often explored through symbolic systems such as the Tree of Life.

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