"Candlelight" is a song by the band The Maccabeats

The Maccabeats

The Maccabeats are an all-male college a cappella group from Yeshiva University noted for their 2010 Hanukkah song "Candlelight".-Career:The group released its first album, Voices from the Heights, in March 2010. In November 2010, they released "Candlelight", a Hanukkah-themed single directed by...

, that was released in late 2010. It achieved viral

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 status. The song is a transformation of Mike Tompkins's a cappella

A cappella

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 cover of the Taio Cruz

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 song "Dynamite

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". The Maccabeats are an all male Jewish

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 a cappella student group at Yeshiva University

Yeshiva University

Yeshiva University is a private university in New York City, with six campuses in New York and one in Israel. Founded in 1886, it is a research university ranked as 45th in the US among national universities by U.S. News & World Report in 2012...

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The lyrics were written by Immanuel Shalev and David Block; Uri Westrich, a medical student and alumnus, made the video.