A.K.A. Pella

There has been some questions on who sang the Adon Olam in the Master Of The Universe post.

The group that sings it is called A.K.A Pella. You can hear snippets of Adon Olam and other songs from that CD here. A careful listener might recognize most of the tunes from elsewhere.  A lot of the songs seem to have a similar meaning or theme as the original song. (For example listen to the clip for Ki Malachav and see if you recognize it.)

For the curious amongst you, Adon Olam seems to be based on this song ( I am not sure of any meaning connection there – though it is a nice tune):

Here is another video set to one of their songs (SImilar to how the Adon Olam one was – though not the same powerful message). I am guessing a few of you will recognize the tune ( In this case I think the connection to the original is more obvious):

If you want, you can hear clips from their first and second more traditional CDs as well.

Here is also one of the lead singers of the group (Zevi Daniels), singing the National Anthem at a recent Orioles game:

Interestingly, people’s reactions to the video differ as upon seeing the clip someone commented to me: “Did you see the sheitel on his wife?”

I should also point out that I have never heard one of their whole CDs and just know them from these clips.