A collaboration between Pinky Weber and Dovy Meisels is turning heads
The newly released album Krechtz, a collaboration between Pinky Weber and Dovy Meisels, is turning heads with its fusion of old-style chassidish song and today’s more raw and plaintive tone. What makes it even more interesting that the connection between twentysomething singer Dovy Meisels and veteran composer and badchan Pinky Weber was not originally forged through music, but through Torah.
“Reb Pinky gives an hour-long shiur every morning before Shacharis, and I was his talmid. I attended that shiur for a couple of years, and we became friends through that. Not all listeners know Pinky as a talmid chacham and maggid shiur who has written a sefer, but that was how I got to know him,” Dovy says.
When Dovy eventually approached Pinky for a song, he offered the young singer his plaintive Yiddish ballad “Kretchma” [“Biz in kretchma, darf men oich a trink…”] which they sang together as a single released in 2021. More recently, when the composer suggested another collaboration, both Dovy’s producer Naftali Schnitzler and creative director Heshy Weinberger advised him to take the opportunity and run with it. Over all his decades of composing hits and creating once-in-a-lifetime moments for couples and families at their mitzvah tantz, Pinky hasn’t made that much time for studio recordings.
“It seemed like a dream that Pinky would agree to collaborate and sing on an album, but that dream morphed into reality over two and a half years of very hard work,” Dovy says.
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