Matt Bar's Music Biography
Matt Bar is a folk-singer, a rapper and above all a folk-rapper. He has had success in all three genres. This includes a song used on episode MTV's "The Real World," a featured appearance on NBC's Hip Hop Nation Notes from the Underground, opening for Outkast, Jurassic 5, Tom Paxton and Matisyahu and selling 5,000+ total albums. Matt moved to New York two years ago to attend the Jewish Theological Seminary and play music in the big city. As a day job Matt began working as Hebrew school teacher. He began writing 'Bible raps' as a jumping off point for class discussion. The students loved this activity and Matt started getting asked to perform them at different functions. "I didn't plan on these raps being something for my music career," Matt explains "but the performances were really satisfying. They combine everything I love: music, Judaism, teaching and learning."
Matt currently resides in Jerusalem where he attends The Pardes Institute of Jewish Learning, performs and does shiurs for incoming Israeli trips and works rigorously in combination with Doogree studies, Jamomusic, Presentense, Hypersemetic, Pardes educators and many others to make The BIble Raps Project a classroom utility.