It’s not only Matisyahu’s extraordinary image that is responsible for this reason: his live gigs, at first, attracted those who simply stared at this ‘hip-hop anomaly’, a seven foot-tall musician, with ringlets hanging down from under a skullcap, scraggly beard and the ritual threads hanging along the sides. Matthew Miller’s moral and religious explorations largely defined his creative style and finally, helped take a unique place in music. Apart from his remarkable appearance and the general exalted atmosphere at the shows, he also brings his unique manner to the lyrics — odes to Judaism performed in an eccentric mixture of English with Jamaican accent imitated, Yiddish and Hebrew. An offbeat combination of various techniques of singing, from John Scatman-like tongue-breakers to Hasidic tunes, bumping beats, and unusual syncopated rhythms based on the classical Jamaican dance-hall and one-drop-reggae, and his perfectly mastered beat-box are topped with the strong energy of a person who has found his place in life. All this, combined with Matthew Miller’s charisma and sincerity, soon brought Matisyahu love of millions of fans and world success.