On Monday, August 3, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz hosted a press conference at Borough Hall, at which DeScribe (born Shneur HaSofer), Crown Heights’ Hasidic Hip Hop and R&B artist, premiered his “Harmony” music video, which celebrates diversity, understanding and harmony among the Crown Heights’ African American and Jewish communities.

The event was presented in collaboration with heads of the Crown Heights community and Shemspeed, an independent recording label and artists’ promotional agency based in Crown Heights, and sponsored by COLlive.com and Marley Coffee, owned by Bob Marley’s son, Rohan Marley, which helps promote and support environmental and social justice causes, including aiding Jamaica’s poor communities and “going green.”

“I have always believed that music, like sports and food, brings communities together,” said BP Markowitz. “I applaud DeScribe for creating the ‘Harmony’ song and music video, for celebrating Brooklyn’s diversity and for reminding us all that, overwhelmingly, Brooklynites live side by side in peace. Mazel tov!”

For more information and a link to the video, visit: http://shemspeed.com/harmony