What it’s about

This music is about the life saving force of my community in times of suffering and healing. It is an admission of deep gratitude for this process. These songs welcome the struggle. The dark night that delivers the light. What light I have found I share with you here. These songs are my vows to love. A growing and sustaining love that I am privileged to nourish with my own healing. It is a prayer that love can be centered for anyone and that it is not only awarded to those that fit a certain criteria. It is a movement of holding my mind to the light and honoring what I am experiencing. I am answering what has called me to share and create. Come and share this night with us.

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music in me

Music is so many things of my spirit and my flesh and it is none of these things. It is something else entirely. Something that cannot be known, where no thought can harness its mystical arithmetic. It belongs to us all and to no one. I am always singing, sometimes the singer and sometimes the song. Singing has been an essential aspect of my connection to my humanity, my story, and to my world. I have been making songs since I was a child. Chanting around my house, making rhymes while walking to and from school. I tried to sound like others and still try to be with my own sound. I could never say for sure how music would be for me, It just was. I avoided studying hard and didn’t like being told what to do. I was a student of life and my impulses. I followed rules barely when my life depended on it. Music lives in me this way too. It shows up when it wants and stays as long as it wants and as far as I know I have little say in the matter. I have a lot to say on a lot of matters and so writing just happened. Starting without paper and a lot of talking to myself. I love to rhyme and I speak the language of metaphor. Eventually my mental wanderings became journaling, then poetry and song. I have compiled this work from the last 16 years of my life as a student of a most intimate love. There is no way to sum up its meaning here in these words. I invite you to listen.