The Isaacs are a family music group that began performing in the early 1970s and moved to Hendersonville, Tennessee, in 2000. Their music crosses gospel, bluegrass, country, and Americana, and despite several lineup changes, Lily Isaacs has remained the core member. Born Leiala Fiszman, Lily came from a family from Czestochowa, Poland; her parents met in 1946 after being liberated from the Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps in Germany. She was born on Sept. 20, 1947, in a displaced persons camp near Munich, and in 1949 the family immigrated to the United States and lived in the Bronx, New York. Naturalized in 1955 as Lillian Fishman, she began performing as a singer and actress at Woodstock Playhouse, and in 1968 she and Maria Neumann released a contemporary folk album on Columbia as Lily & Maria. At Gerde's Folk City in New York, Lily met Joe Isaacs, a bluegrass musician born on Jan. 24, 1947, in McKee, Kentucky, who was then working with the Greenbriar Boys. Joe moved to Ohio in 1969 to join Larry Sparks, and after Lily married Joe in May 1970, she also moved to Ohio. The death of Joe's brother in December 1970 led Lily and Joe to a profound religious experience; they received Yeshua as Messiah and began performing bluegrass gospel. Their first recordings were released as Joe Isaacs and the Calvary Mountain Boys, later Sacred Bluegrass. Their children, Ben, Sonya, and Becky, joined the family group as they became old enough to perform regularly, and the group became known as The Isaacs. In 1992 the Isaacs moved to East Tennessee because it was central for touring. Joe Isaacs left the group after his separation from Lily in 1998, and by 2000 the family's career increasingly centered on the Grand Ole Opry and Nashville recording sessions, prompting the move to Hendersonville. Sonya Isaacs also pursued a parallel career outside the family group: beginning in 1998 she toured in Vince Gill's band, co-wrote a song with him for The Key, and Gill co-produced her self-titled solo album for Lyric Street Records in 2000; four of her singles reached Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart between 1999 and 2003. In 2011, "I'm Gonna Love You Through It," written by Sonya, her husband Jimmy Yeary, and Ben Hayslip, became a country hit for Martina McBride and later a YouTube favorite; it was based on Lily Isaacs' battle with cancer in 1983. Ben Isaacs owns a recording studio in Hendersonville where the Gaither Vocal Band, The Oak Ridge Boys, and others have recorded. Ben, Sonya, Becky, and Lily have appeared on hundreds of recordings by country, bluegrass, and gospel artists including Dolly, Reba, Trace Adkins, and Trisha Yearwood. The Isaacs travel worldwide, organized a nonprofit to benefit Israel, have long-standing relationships with Gaither Homecoming shows and the Opry, have performed the national anthem at Carnegie Hall and many professional sporting events including Titans and Predators games, received several Grammy nominations, won many awards including many Dove Awards, and Lily Isaacs chronicled her life in the book "You Don't Cry Out Loud."