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About Moshe Yess
- Moshe Aaron Yess (April 18, 1945 – January 8, 2011) was an Orthodox Jewish musician, composer and entertainer from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. A member of the Chabad community in Montreal, Yess was a regular performer at Chabad House events and shows, together with general music festivals and the annual A Time for Music concert. In the 1960s, Yess shared stages with David Crosby, Jefferson Airplane, and The Association.
- For a time he was part of a psychedelic music group named Research 1-6-12 which produced one album in 1968.
- As a solo performer he played in Las Vegas, Reno, and other hot spots.
- In 1978 he moved from Hollywood, California to Jerusalem, Israel, where he enrolled in the Dvar Yerushalayim Yeshiva.
- There he met Rabbi Shalom Levine, who became his mentor in Halacha and his musical partner in Megama.
- They spoke about harnessing American-style music to communicate the beauty and values of Judaism.
- Thus was Megama (Hebrew for "trend") born.One of Yess's biggest hit songs was "My Zaidy," in which the speaker remembers his grandfather, who was his last link to Judaism.
- "My Zaidy" — "zaidy" is the Yiddish word for grandpa — touched several generations of American and Canadian Jews.
- Other hits by Megama included "Ain't Gonna Work on Saturday" and "Not Ashamed," and one of their successful children's shows was called "Judeo Rodeo".
- Yess collaborated with Abie Rotenberg to produce the children's audio series called The Marvelous Midos Machine composed of three volumes, with all-original material.
- When Rotenberg produced the 4th volume in December 2011, he made the album in tribute to Yess.
- In the 1990s, Yess started a rock band called Burnt Offering with the blessing of The Lubavitcher Rebbe.
- He eventually became a follower of Lubavitch Messianism, creating a website promoting his views.
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