Sound & Music

"My purpose really does involve a lot of music as medicine. The only thing that would quell that fear, that anxiousness, outside of a very strong will to live, was music. There was one sound healer named Brother Ah, and he would pour water from one glass to another, chant, and use very intentional prayer music. It touched my core and really penetrated on a cellular level. It was what I locked into, what I could focus all my attention and energy on, so I could heal from within while the doctors tried to heal externally. Every day the doctors would come in and say, we cannot believe how much your bone has grown back. When I came out of that, I knew that this is 100 percent what I am doing. I formed the International Cultural Arts and Healing Sciences Institute and tried to put programming together. I do this thing called music as medicine programming, and we use it with UNHCR, the United Nations High Commission on Refugees, with the American Psychological Association, with the Department of Health and Human Services, and with the Foreign Services Institute. I go around as a cultural arts ambassador to different places around the world, bringing people together with music and working with people who are frozen in this chrysalis of pain and trauma from war, refugees, and at risk children."