Lily Isaacs

Lily Isaacs. NASHVILLE Tenn (BP)–Lily Isaacs is the matriarch of an awardwinning Christian music group that combines gospel bluegrass and country in its latest album “Big Sky” The Isaacs sing with the Gaithers and have enjoyed significant success in a realm much different than where she began as a Jewish folk singer in New York City.

Children of The HolocaustComing to The United StatesAsking “Why God?”Love of Musicfrom Folk to BluegrassWhat makes Lily’s story so interesting is that both of her parents were victims of the Holocaust And while most of their collective families were killed during WWII they both survived each with their own story of overcoming Lily’s mother was one of five children As Lily conveys when the war started there wasn’t abundant communication about what was happening in the world because people didn’t have social media or television and very few even had radios Regardless she says “there was unrest in a lot of the small towns in Poland and all over Europe” Through word of mouth people were hearing that the Nazi party from Germany was taking people from their homes specifically Jewish people And while they weren’t sure what the Nazis were doing with those they took it was believed they were possibly being taken to work camps Somehow (miraculously?) Lily’s grandmother found out that the Nazis were coming to their home town so she told Lily’s mother brother and youngest sist In those days a family needed a sponsor to move to a new country—someone to help them get set up with a new life in that country Lily’s mother had an uncle that lived in the states so he sponsored her family and sent for them When Lily was two years old she boarded a ship with her mother and father and sailed for the United States (She doesn’t remember any of this just what she’s been told) They landed in New York City just past the Statue of Liberty and her parents relayed their excitement “because they knew they were getting another chance at life” After settling in New York City Lily’s uncle helped her father become a bread baker And although Lily and her parents spoke Yiddish in their home her parents learned English by going to night school Lily started speaking it better once she started kindergarten Lily recalls her mother telling a story of questioning God She told of this one time when they were on a train for three days They were so crammed in the train cars that when someone died they had no place to fall down They didn’t have food or water or toilets But every now and then it would rain and little drops of water would fall through the cracks and everyone opened their mouths to drink those drops While standing there Lily’s mother asked “God where is the world? Where is the whole world? Why are we here? Why isn’t anyone helping us?” But she said “Nobody came” While I’m not trying to make a comparison with those who went through the Holocaust I do know that sometimes we have our own dark moments—times of isolation disappointment and pain And we wonder where everybody is and why nobody is coming to help us Lily says it’s like Jesus who called out on the cross “Father why have you forsaken me?” She believes it’s a human emotion to feel those things My late Lily’s parent’s story of overcoming gave her the opportunity to become who she is today As Lily puts it the war robbed her parents of their teenage years But so much was given back to them with the start of a new life And one of those things was music and Broadway Lily’s mother became a lover of Broadway and would sing the songs she knew while dancing around the house That love for music transferred to Lily and she started singing when she was very young Her mother noticed the talent she had and at 13 Lily took voice lessons Her goal was to act on Broadway in the Jewish theater Knowing this her mother encouraged her She auditioned for every play there was in junior high and high school and always got a part After graduating she went to Queens College and was in an off Broadway show over one summer The following summer she qualified to do an apprenticeship studying acting in Pittsburgh PA at Carnegie Tech University Her entire life was wrapped up in acting and th With the release of their album Lily and Maria started playing nightclubs in Greenwich village One night they were playing with another band called The Greenbriar Boys from Kentucky The banjo player in the band was Joe Isaacs “a cowboy with a Southern accent” Lily says there was an instant attraction They started dating and eventually got married But this first night they met was one of the first times Lily had ever heard bluegrass music And it’s how Lily’s life in bluegrass music all began Today at least in my opinion she is one of the greatest bluegrass gospel singers in the country if not the world While Lily has her own story of overcoming—like the fact that she’s a 30year cancer survivor among other things—it’s good to look back and remember those who have overcome before us So thank you Lily for talking with me and for sharing the fascinating story of your family I’m so grateful for you and I love you and your entire family If you’d like to learn or hear.

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