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I, Tzipi Koltenyuk, a Chabad Hasidic singer and composer, 29 years old, married and mother of 3 children. I grew up in a musical Hasidic home. The daughter of a professional pianist mother who immigrated from Russia. The eighth of 11 children. A home where there was a lot of music and every Shabbat meal lasted hours, with us singing Hasidic melodies and songs in several voices. And woe to anyone who fakes...
I played the piano from the age of 6, and when I was 10 and a half, my mother passed away suddenly - and I stopped studying. The piano became the safe place that reminded me of my mother and allowed me to express myself. At the age of 13, I began composing and writing songs about my dealings with a sense of inadequacy, lack of confidence and difficulties, from a place of strong faith in God.
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Over the years, many songs accumulated and I tried to sell them to different singers. I never thought for a moment that I would one day sing them myself.
In the last two years, following the amazing responses I received to the songs, I decided it was time to spread them to strengthen and make other women happy. I came out with a guitar-accompanied show called "The World Was Created for You" - an empowerment show for women. I started performing in Chabad houses and women's centers. At the end of every performance, women asked where they could get the songs. Some of them recorded them during the performance or came up and asked to have the words of one of the songs dictated to them.
""I realized I needed to make an album. I wanted to record in my home studio to really do my duty, but God wanted something different. I heard about the arranger Nadav Biton and when I came to the meeting and told him what the goal of the album was, he immediately decided to be part of the project. Nadav arranged the songs delicately, without changing the simple and true original. He plays the piano and accordion on the album. Naaman Tal plays the guitar and Golan Kolesh plays the percussion. I also invested in mastering with Tali Katz, so that the songs would sound good to every ear and the message of faith would get across well.
The CD is accompanied by a booklet with all the lyrics and quotes from the prayer and the Tanya. It is sold in the 7 branches of the 'Helen Hats' chain and on the website www.zipikol.com
