Yaakov Shwekey

Yaakov Shwekey (Hebrew: יעקב שוואקי‎, born Yaakov Choueka) (born in 1977) is an Orthodox Jewish recording artist and musical entertainer. Through his father, he is of Egyptian and Syrian Sephardic heritage; his mother is Ashkenazi.

Biography

Yaakov Shwekey was raised in Polanco, Mexico City, where he attended Yeshiva Ateret Yosef. He later lived in Brooklyn, NY and attended Yeshiva of Brooklyn. He now lives in Deal, New Jersey with his wife Jenine and their four children. Yaakov's career began when he sang in the Ateret Yosef Choir in Mexico City and when he and his brother Yisroel Meir sang with the Miami Boys Choir for a short period of time. As a young man Shwekey learned in Rabbi Menachem Davidowitz's yeshiva (TIUNY) in Rochester, NY,

Musical style

Shwekey is a singer and his music and songs are composed by others. His albums are produced by Yochi Briskman, and distributed in the US by Aderet Music, and in Israel by JMI. Many different arrangers have arranged his albums including Moshe Laufer, Mona Rosenblum, Yanky Briskman, Leib Yaakov Rigler, and Yisroel Lamm. Until 2006 Shwekey's primary studio was "Studio X" (run by Yochi Briskman, engineered by AJ Greenwald), today, some of his recording is done in his private home studio.