Ari Fraser's new single "My Broadway" tells stories and holds up a mirror, reflecting the deepest corners of the human experience. On his, singer-songwriter Ari Fraser writes a soul-wrenching story that lives out the allegory that life as a stage, where perception and reality intermingle, and the past shapes each and every frame.
Incorporating folk, country, and classic singer-songwriter touches, My Broadway plays as close to the ear as a whispered confession and as theatrical as a theater staging. Fraser's craggy, heart-on-sleeve delivery takes you through a profoundly emotional riddle: Are we the playwrights of our lives, or just actors in a play scripted by fate?
Growing up in Jerusalem in a traditional Orthodox Jewish family, Fraser's musical relationship started with holy melodies and the collective voices of prayer in a synagogue. Without formal musical training, his natural talents propelled him into choirs, leading prayers and eventually composing his striking, faith-filled songs infused with longing and storytelling.
"My Broadway" is as much personal as it is universal. It explores the burden the past can hold, the ways in which we deny our own truths, and how unresolved feelings can intrude on a present moment. It's a song that demands soul-searching.
The stripped-down yet cinematic "My Broadway" finds Fraser firmly seated in the family tree of poetic songwriters like Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan, men who dared to ask the big questions and allow the music to do the soul-searching.