Ezra Furman has successfully developed his music career in recent years, something he thinks is closely linked to his greater comfort with his religious and gender identity.
Ezra Furman is an acclaimed indie rocker who, while hanging on his tour bus, has been known to lay tefillin.
Striking, too, is Furman’s typical getup: The singer and guitarist often eschews the standard millennial indie rocker uniform – skinny jeans, tight T-shirt – in favor of lipstick, pearl necklaces, colorful dresses and patterned baseball caps.
It’s safe to say the 29-year-old is probably the only publicly visible musician who navigates the worlds of both Orthodox Judaism and gender nonconformity. Though Furman doesn’t identify as strictly Orthodox, he observes Shabbat and reads the Torah portion on tour each week. Most notably, he no longer plays shows on Friday nights nor travels on Saturdays – prime times for working musicians.
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