The Isaacs

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The Isaacs are a country and bluegrass gospel music group consisting of mother Lily Isaacs, and daughters Becky and Sonya Isaacs and son Ben Isaacs, along with Ronnie Bowman (husband of Becky Isaacs) as an instrumentalist ans songwriter. Joe Isaacs, formerly a singer and banjo player in the group, has left since his 1998 divorce from Lily Isaacs. He now does solo work on a far more localized level.

Lily Isaacs was born in 1950 to a non-practicing Jewish family in New York City; her mother was a refugee from the WWII Holocaust and its aftermath in Poland. During the early 1970s she was a vocalist in the folk duo Lily and Maria before moving to rural Kentucky and marrying Joe Isaacs, the youngest of 17 children in his family. Shortly after that she had a spiritual experience at a Pentecostal church, and since then has confessed Jesus as the Messiah. Soon after this experience she began to shift from secular folk and bluegrass music to gospel bluegrass. She has written many of the group's songs, and has incorporated Yiddish and Hebrew into the lyrics of a few songs.