The Jerusalem Post reports:
The songs of 20-year-old Eliyahu Faizkov, a yeshiva student from Netanya, were recently banned by haredi pirate radio stations because his voice is uncannily feminine.
"At first my songs were received positively by the haredi radio stations," Faizkov told the Ynet Web site. "But I suddenly noticed that they stopped playing my songs. It was as if someone confiscated them all. I contacted the stations to find out what was going on and the answer I got was precisely what I had feared, 'Your voice is too feminine.'"
Apparently, listeners had called in to complain about Faizkov's voice.
According to many Orthodox rabbinic authorities, Jewish law forbids men to listen to a female singer's voice, even if it is taped and even if the listener does not know what the woman looks like. In Jewish law, listening to a singing woman's voice is compared to viewing parts of a woman's body that are normally kept covered.…
[Hat Tip: KK.]