Daniel Kahn, Detroit-born expat troubadour combines English, Yiddish, and German in a radical mix of klezmer, lyrical folk ballads, dark cabaret, and political punk. His projects and groups include the award-winning cult band The Painted Bird , as well as Brothers Nazaroff , Semer Ensemble , The Unternationale , and his duo with Jake Shulman-Ment, "The Building & Other Songs." He played the original Perchik in Folksbiene's hit "Fidler afn Dakh," Yosl in "Amerike," Biff in NYR's "Death of a Salesman," the Badkhn in the Netflix series "Unorthodox," and was featured in Carnegie Hall's "From Shtetl to Stage." He works frequently as composer and actor at Hamburg's Thalia and Berlin's Gorki Theater and co-founded the Shtetl Berlin festival. Videos of his Yiddish versions of Leonard Cohen , Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and Tom Waits songs have received millions of views. Ashkenaz Foundation named him the inaugural Theo Bikel Artist-in-Residence. In 2018, he received the Chane and Joseph Mlotek Award for Yiddish Continuity. After being based in Berlin for 16 years, he currently harbors on a houseboat in Hamburg with Yeva Lapsker and their son Leon.
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