If you could press a button and redo one thing in your musical career, what would you change before hitting Play?

Chayala Neuhaus, Composer

“The title track of my first album, Miracles, was written three weeks before I got married. A close friend, Ruchy Deutch a”h, needed a song for a camp production, so I wrote a song, even though my head was elsewhere. When the song was ready, I looked over the lyrics about the beauty of nature and how we sing to Hashem every morning, and I didn’t think they were great. But Ruchy needed a song and insisted on taking it, saying people would love it. Totally unexpectedly, ‘Miracles’ actually was a hit. But the one thing I would change? The line about ‘the smell of orchids, white like snow.’ She needed the song to mention orchids because it was related to the theme, but since then I’ve learned that, despite their beauty, orchids have no fragrance at all!”

(Originally featured in Mishpacha, Issue 736)