Using the energy of hard rock music to explore the depths of the Jewish heart, Yehuda Shluker's pioneering and innovative album 'Hachalom' delivers explosive guitar riffs, powerful harmonies, driving rhythms and thought provoking messages that appeal to Jews and non-Jews alike. On 'Hachalom' Shluker offers a new genre of music for people young and old who like to rock, but can live without the shmutz. Yehuda's soulful and spiritual album 'Hachalom' breaks new ground in the world of Jewish music by asking existential questions about what it means to be a Jew.

Yehuda (aka Judah), is a lyricist, composer, instrumentalist and producer whose love of Judaism and rock music compelled him to record 'Hachalom' which he released in 1994 to critical acclaim. Yehuda's talents go further in his musicianship. With very little formal musical training and mostly self taught - a few months of piano and drum lessons as a teenager, a course at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY while in High School and a music theory class in college - he performed virtually all the instruments on 'Hachalom' singing vocal tracks, playing drums, piano/keyboards, guitar and bass.

Yehuda took home the $1500 prize as the first place winner at the 1994 American Jewish Song Festival in Encino, CA for his song Wandering Hearts (not included on 'Hachalom'). "I was impressed that Shluker hadn't taken some music already written and simply countried it up, or rocked it, or jazzed it, but 'Wandering Hearts' is totally original music." ~Lou Rudolph (Television Producer, CA)

Yehuda, a veteran of the New York rock clubs where for five years he played drums in his bands Twelveston and Moriah, later reorganized with former members of Moriah, David A. Weissman (Guitar) and Jack Gold (Vocals) - who also lent their talents to the recording of 'Hachalom' - Jeff Stones (bass) and new drummer Jeff Schiff as The Yehuda Shluker Band. Yehuda switched to the frontman position to sing and play guitar and keyboards.

Yehuda lives in Queens, New York with his wife Amy and three children Ethan, Jordan and Ryan.

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