Meilech Kohn - This Guy is Cool!

Who is Meilech Kohn? Meilech Kohn, was born in 1969 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, N.Y. He was raised in a Chassidish community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, N.Y. Meilech grew up surrounded by music, from experimenting with a Keyboard at home as a child, to listening to a variety of different genres within the world of jewish music, be it Records, 8-Tracks,and Cassettes. Some of the artists include: Yom Tov Ehrlich, MBD, London pirchei, to Jo Amar and more. He also shared his father’s love of cantorial artists, including: Chazzan Yossele Rosenblatt (who was a favorite), Chazzan Yehoshua Wieder (where Meilech’s father was part of the choir before WWII, in Hungary). As a boy and his teens he would sit right next to the ba’al tefilla/Chazzan during yomim Noroyim (the high holy days), at the original