Steve Lieberman, The Gangsta Rabbi

Steve Lieberman (born 21 June 1958), also known as the Gangsta Rabbi &The King of Jewish Punk is a Jewish-American punk rock /metal singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer . He is a Hebrew Nazarite, the founder of The Bad'lanim, a minority sect of Judaism . Lieberman's 76th album 'The Noise Militia(#38/76)' is the longest song in history at over 35 hours and has received the Guinness World Record for Longest Officially Released Song Lieberman is often considered an outsider musician, described as "walking the line between insanity and genius [sic]".[5] This has been partially attributed to his lifelong struggle with bipolar disorder , as well as his 11-year fight with progressive leukemia in his later years, which ultimately was deemed terminal and has become a recurring theme in his lyrics. He has commercially released over 38 CDs and 38 cassette albums in the underground. On all his releases, Lieberman sings and plays all instruments. In addition to guitar, bass and beats, he adds flutes,many brass instruments and a variety of exotics. He fused punk rock with military music and jazz, thereby creating a more powerful sound. As his condition has worsened, he has produced each subsequent album to be heavier by adding more instrumentation and distortion to symbolize his ongoing fight cancer and strength gained from the music and his faith. In this process he formed experimental hard rock "sub-genres", "Thrash Opera" and "Punk-Thrash-Brass"