Another turn in Matisyahu’s evolution
A chapter in one of the most unusual spiritual journeys ended in, of all places, a Supercuts.
It was in one of the chain’s salons on Manhattan’s Upper West Side that Matisyahu‘s life as the world’s first Hasidic reggae superstar came to a swift end in a pile of hair.
He walked in with a decade’s worth of uncut dark beard, the result of his devotion to Orthodox Judaism, and walked out clean-shaven. What he is now isn’t always clear — and that’s fine with Matisyahu.
“I think that things grow and people move in different directions,” he says. “I’m just continuing and trying just to make the decisions that feel right and go after, intuitively, the things that I know to be right.”