March 16, 2013
Roughly 15 years ago, “Rabbi Blue” (aka Dwight White) was well known in the Orange County music scene, playing with his band The Blue Machine at nearly every venue up and down the Orange coast—The White House in Laguna Beach, Margaritaville in Newport Beach, and The Coach House in Dana Point. Then, at the peak of Blue Machine mania in the late 1990s, Blue made a sudden disappearance from the music scene after suffering what he calls a psychological breakdown that sent him away for a few years. It was during this “away period” that his music and, ultimately, his newfound faith carried him to where he is today: this African-American Christian jazz musician is now a Rabbi.