Richard Samuel "Rick" Recht (born August 28, 1970) is an American

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ian who was one of the early pioneers of contemporary Jewish rock music in the early 2000s, performing for Jewish teenage and young adult audiences.

Career

Recht grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. By the late 1990s, he was a member of a band and worked as a song leader at a Jewish day camp in St. Louis. By the early 2000s, Recht and his band were touring nationwide, delivering about 150 performances a year, included for an estimated audience of 30,000 people at the Los Angeles Jewish Festival in 2003. In 2010, Recht founded

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, one of the first exclusively Jewish rock online radio stations in the United States. Recht is the Artist-in-Residence at the United Hebrew Congregation in

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, Missouri, where he provides music for

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, and other programming. In October 2023, the nonprofit Judaism Alive (of which Recht is executive director) organized the virtual event nity in Harmony: Standing in Solidarity, Song, and Prayer for Israel. Recht appeared with fellow musicians and community leaders, including David Broza,

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, JFNA board member Julie Platt, Winnie Grinspoon of the

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, and Rabbi David Ingber of the

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Discography

Recht has released eight studio albums, two children's albums, and four live albums.

Studio albums

Live albums

Children's albums

Singles

Music videos

* "The Hope" (2006) * "Summer of Our Lives" (2012) * "The Rainbow Song" (2017) * "Sanctuary" (2017) * "Here For You" (2019) * "Oseh Shalom" (2019) * "Chosen Family" (2022)

References

External links

Rick Recht official site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Recht, Rick 1970 births American rock musicians Living people Jewish American rock musicians Jewish folk singers Musicians from St. Louis County, Missouri 21st-century American Jews