The above video is a recap from my March 2014 post. Featuring the buildOn foundation with music from Ludovico Einaudi, it iterates the importance of education, cultural unity and providing help to those in need. The message? People Matter.
Einaudi Contributes to buildOn
Music is more than art. It’s a constructive tool that can provide peace of mind, as I learned years ago, growing up in a time when lyrics edified and transported one to a calming state, while enjoying such music in solitude.
In celebrating Black Music Month, and great music throughout
the year, I revere music as an asset whose value appreciates, remembering the albums
of Earth Wind & Fire; Stevie Wonder’s, Songs in the Key of Life;
Roberta Flack and others – artists who made life-affirming songs, inspiring
hope and empowerment … a time when profane lyrics were simply unthinkable.
Strength is inherent or often navigated by example – the principles and morals taught at home, where girls learn self-respect; the value of an education; their love is not for sale. Having a foundation that cultivates confidence is the differential that can transform a girl into a respectable woman armed with strength, opposed to one without standards.
How did music come from a people taken from their land – relegated to slavery, fatal atrocities? ... Alienated from their culture?
Through centuries of enslavement, hope ensued and the endemic relics of their music, culture and mores, turned into blues … rhythms, dialects, and the cultivation of a people poised with dignity and divine solidarity. _________________________________
To have a dream often requires mental autonomy when no
one believes but you – when no one can see it but you. But a dream that
promotes humanity, as that envisioned by Martin Luther King, Jr., is immeasurable.
