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as a fellow creative soul i understand your frustration as there is no good creative outlet if you are looking to turn a profit.
Any musician nowadays will tell you that the money is in licensing or in live performance and since Hollywood movies and commerical radio station arent lining up to add Jewish music to their repitoire you are stuck with the live performace.
In the religious community since concerts are banned the only way to make it would be to have a simcha band and just play as many weddings as possible to the point where you become popular enough that an album might sell enough copies to break even.
I know what its like to have the music inside you and want to share it with as many people as possible but not being able to..it’s frustrating and sometimes make you even resent your gift.
Do not despair as your answer will come to you.
My final piece of advice is to make sure you have a written contract before you “sell” any of your songs or concepts to another artist. (Although I dont understand how you can copywrite jewish music since either Hashem or Dovid Hamelech wrote the words anyway)