Real name: Solomon Shmulevitsh

b. Russian Empire 1868 and emigrated to U.S. in 1889. d. 1943

Songwriter, lyricist, bard, actor, badkhn (wedding entertainer), balladeer, and early recording singer Solomon Shmulevitsh was born in Minsk, Belarus, and immigrated to the United States in 1889. He was one of the most prolific and talented of the early Yiddish composers who fashioned a type of Yiddish counterpart to American popular song around the turn of the 19th–20th century and in the immediately ensuing years.