That’s right, not since Sylvester and Frank Stallone has Hollywood seen such fraternal star power!

Meet Erran Baron Cohen, brother Sacha and the composer of the scores of such varied projects as Da Ali G Show, the Borat movie, and the upcoming Bruno movie (Pictured with his meal ticket above). But apparently now he’s releasing a non Sacha related project, the upcoming CD “Songs in the Key of Hanukkah”, which remakes popular holiday songs.

Since I’ve been obsessed for years with the idea of a Jewish Frank Stallone, here’s Erran’s explanation of what inspired the project:

“Well, the idea is sort of one of the more unusual projects I have been involved with. To take Hanukkah, which is a great festival that I always enjoyed as a kid singing all the songs. I remember we had this terrible record our parents played with children singing slightly off tune to a really old piano player. As the years went on, I realized they were all really bad tunes and all badly played. So the idea was to use story of Hanukkah and take some of the music of it and update it to make it really cool.”

I checked on Amazon.com and currently it’s only the 2,390 best selling item in their music section. So it’s not even selling Frank Stallone numbers yet but by the Hanukkah rolls around I’m confident Erran will have arrived as the superstar artist  he is destined to become.

(Which if actually true, would be a way bigger miracle than a lamp burning for 8 days.)

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