Music is a universal language
After a long day in the office, I am really happy to be able to perform in the evening. Music is my life and my passion. It is truly a universal language. With music you can transform your thoughts, your hopes, sadness, happiness, success and love into the world. There is so much you can project with music.
Whether you are performing in an arena in front of hundreds or thousands or for only a few people, you have to always sing from your heart and give it your best. People will feel what you sing from your heart; they feel your words and they feel your passion. Especially children, I have found. They have not built the walls and the barriers yet that adults have. They instinctively listen with their heart. Music connects the artist with the audience, in turn connecting different cultures, religions, old and young, sick andhealthy.
Every style of music is like a beautiful pallet of colors an artist uses to paint his masterpiece. Whereas no color or brush stroke on a canvas can be missed, also no note of music or word can be missed when an artist sings. Quite often songs are a mirror of whatdefines us as artists.
Praise and songs of worship bring to a religious service another level of feeling. It can heighten our emotions making us feel even closer to our God. I know that when you are in a venue that brings together people from different places and different cultures, music has the ability to transcend the boundaries of our differences. When I sing in an arena in front of many, I sometimes think about all who are out there in the audience and how I want to teach and touch every one of them. I know that sometimes, and actually very often, we do not know who is standing next to us, and it does not matter because we
have come to enjoy the music. But think about how after one song, we all become united as one. This effect and this miracle is what enriches my desire to always want to be able to bring people from all walks of life together. Music is such an important art for
touching and uniting us.
I know that a song can follow us the whole day; even our whole life. Who has not gotten a song stuck in their head? I know that when we fall in love, we will remember a song that was part of the start of that relationship. Music touches our soul.
But music is also only as good as the lyrics for the message we artists want to convey. They can be constructive or they can be damaging. We have to take responsibility for the messages we bring to people. We have to always consider this. And that is my desire and advise too; to be responsible for what we are bringing to this world. I would like our media community; radio, TV stations, owners of venues, etc., to take responsibility for what they bring to their listeners and our communities. They are responsible for what they put on the air but we are also responsible for listening to it and allowing it. We just can't continue to give songs that breed racism and religious bias a venue for breeding hated like it is something that is acceptable. Some may think this is a form of
censorship. That everyone has a right to bring whatever message they like. Yes, we do have a right to be heard but not when it reduces the value of another human being. No one has this right. We have no right to disempower another. Remember, what we bring to our children we also bring to our society when they are ready to go out and live in our world.
Music is a universal language - let's turn guns into guitars. Let's stand united inchange like we do for those moments we stand together for music. Let's make this world a better place to live for everyone.
