RAZA

Chana Raskin, the founder and main facilitator of RAZA, is an untrained vocalist who grew up entrenched in the world of Chabad Hasidut and its stirringly simple and complex melodies. These nigunim have carried her at every point on her journey. At age four, waking up to a late-night farbrengen (Hasidic gathering) in her family’s small Brooklyn apartment, she found her way to her father’s knee as he was teaching an old Yiddish Chabad nigun. That nigun, “Ah Shtarker Bistu,” appears on RAZA’s debut album, KAPELYA, out Feb 22, 2023.

In her music and song circles, and especially in her one-on-one sessions, Chana strives to hold a space with others recovering from illness or traumatic injury, or simply seeking Home. She revels in the healing powers of quiet, laughter, humming, singing and movement.