![]() ![]() “You didn’t know you had a good voice then?” I wasn’t the girl about whom they’d say, ‘Pick her, she sings.’ I was in dance, and I painted all the color war banners. I’d also have main parts, and sometimes I’d have a song to sing. So I had this dream of being a doctor and helping people.”ĭevorah’s mother felt she must have been exposed to an ayin hara because she was always in the limelight she spent a lot of time on stage, but not as the lead soloist. Then I’d do flips and land on the wrong ankle and break my foot.Īnother time, I broke my foot in camp. I suffered two concussions after doing headstands on beams in gymnastics. I had to sit on a doughnut in class for the rest of the year. When I was in 12th grade, I went snowboarding and broke my tailbone. I’d go out in the Brooklyn streets with my rollerblades and play hockey, and I always got hurt. But she knew she wanted to be a doctor because she also spent a lot of time in emergency rooms. That’s because, as far back as seventh grade, she had a love for biology and chemistry. “Did you want to be a singer when you were young?” I ask her. So now I’ll let you listen in so we can all get to know her together. It’s a lesson in persistence, and it speaks to all of us.ĭevorah’s performances are not about glamour and not about attention. Rather, her story is a journey that is so human, so real it’s a journey toward finding oneself. But she did not grow up wanting to sing, channeling her talent in a kosher way. It was not what I had expected, and I loved her story so much.ĭevorah Schwartz is one of the most talented frum female singers in the Jewish music world today. That was when we made plans to meet again, only this time she would be the one I would interview. I met her again a couple of weeks later and watched her perform. Devorah even offered that we “pull up a highchair” so our babies could keep each other company while I finished my interview! The baby she found was Devorah’s 11-month-old son. I was in the café’s private room and my baby was with me, but she kept escaping from the room, half-crawling and half-walking to the middle of the café, where there was a baby who caught her interest. I was interviewing the ladies of the mAb Squad, who were profiled in the Pesach edition of AmiLiving. It was the perfect example of how one article is goreret another. I first met Devorah Schwartz at The Cookie Corner in Lakewood. ![]()
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