Davidi Nachshon

About Davidi Nachshon

Davidi Nachshon is a keyboard player on Lehallel — the filtered YouTube platform. 302+ of his recordings can be watched here, with no ads and no comments.

Davidi Nachshon is a keyboard player, and his channel is the music of the Chabad simcha - from the niggunim of the Rebbeim played quietly on the piano to the dance sets of a Chabad wedding with his band, the DNA orchestra. Most of his titles are in Hebrew; this page gathers them into rooms and tells in English what each room holds.

The niggunim are at the heart of it. On the piano he plays the niggun of Yud-Beis Tammuz, the day the Frierdiker Rebbe was freed from Soviet prison; the Rostov niggun, sung in preparation for a maamar; the niggun of the Daled Bavos, the four stanzas of the Alter Rebbe; the niggun of the Beinoni, with Menachem Monis; "Keli Atah"; "HaBen Yakir Li" with the DNA orchestra and Simcha Friedman; a niggun of Berditchev with Nachman Diamant; a niggun for Shabbos and Yom Tov; Reb Shaya ben Reb Moshe on the guitar; and the piyyut "Agadlecha" on the piano. He strings them into medleys - three sets of Chabad niggunim, an Eastern version with Menachem Monis, a calm "Chassidic night" of niggunim, Shabbos songs and soul niggunim, a Carlebach medley - and plays a daily niggun.

At Chabad weddings he plays with the singers of the community: Michael Azulay, Elisaf Chefetz, Zevulun Natanov, Shmuel Batash, Mendy Gruppi with Meirke Wolner, and Simcha Friedman; his clips show the simchas chasan v'kallah, the full band at a wedding, a Simchas Beis HaShoeiva in Ramat Beit Shemesh, a gathering of the Chassidim's association, the first look at his own birthday farbrengen - and the day he played the drums at his own wedding.

For every yom tov there is a dance medley: "Pesach Dance", "Lag Dance" in a remix, "Sukkos Dance" for the Simchas Beis HaShoeiva, "Chanukah Dance" and a Chanukah medley in a funk version, "Purim Dance" and "Purimix" with Avi Reymi, and "Chabadance", a medley of Chabad niggunim to dance to. For the smallest listeners there are Chabad niggunim for babies, played with a soft "shhh" behind them, and Carlebach for babies.

He sings and plays with friends: "Tzama Lecha Nafshi" with Menachem Frankel; "Rachamana" on the piano with Yair Bodner, and "VeHi She'amdah" with Yair Bodner and Dor Asraf; "Ribon", "Ani Maamin" and "Mi Yiten" with Avi Reymi, with the story behind the scenes of "Ribon"; "Avinu Av HaRachaman" with Nati Alber; "Pada BeShalom" and "Tiku BaChodesh" with Michael Azulay; "Tatte" with Kobi Mirsky; "Shake Yourself Awake" with Shlomi Meir; "Skipping Over the Mountains" with Simcha Abramchyk and Levy Falkowitz; "Kol Tzamei Lechu LaMayim" live with Moshe Peled; "Mi HaIsh HeChafetz Chaim" with Nati Levin; "Kerachem Av" of Shragi Gestetner with Simcha Friedman; "Lev Sheli" of Ishay Ribo with Kobi Brumer; and the vocal songs "Achshli Yehudi", "Shir HaNitzachon" and "Shir HaTzedakah" with Shuki Salomon and his friends. He also sings the Twelve Pesukim in Hebrew.

Behind the music he talks: his podcast brings guests to the studio - Pini Ezra and Moshe Mamman, Kobi Mirsky, Shuki Salomon and Michael Azulay, Rabbi Chilik Kaplan, Daniel Saadon, Michael Pinto - and "Behind the Keyboards" follows him from the studio to the wedding hall, with special episodes on a flight to Uman and on a wedding flight to Cyprus. Yehuda Grovais hosts him on "Abba Yehuda". Each recording opens on its own page, with no ads and no comments around it.

You can search inside the songs by what was said, play the whole catalog back to back, or follow Davidi Nachshon to be told when something new comes in.