Shlomo Simcha began his career in a small kollel in Montreal, where he was discovered by a local wedding band leader[1] who brought him onto a project recording a series for children in the Satmar community called Besof Umachol.

[1] In 1992, Shlomo Simcha found himself flying to Israel to perform on stage with Mordechai Ben David at a concert in Yad Eliyahu, Tel Aviv during the holiday of Sukkot – his first major exposure to audiences and other names in the world of Jewish music.

[3][4] He grew up in the Hampstead Garden Suburb and Temple Fortune neighbourhoods of London[5] where he was influenced by the prayer styles of his own father, as well as Nathan (Bobby) Vogel, and Cantor Herschel Gorman.

While he has said his family would not be able to manage the time commitment necessary for Shlomo to be in the choir, he was allowed to sit in on rehearsals, and he made a point to seat himself at the same table as Yigal Calek at their synagogue's Friday evening services every week.

[5] Not long after, Shlomo Simcha would receive the first of what would be many invitations to perform at the annual HASC: A Time for Music benefit concert, where he would eventually meet long-time friend and collaborator Abie Rotenberg, with whom he would go on to create the Aish series.