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Discovering Self-Worth Through Sound: Tuning in to Passions Allowed This Artist to Thrive

Discovering Self-Worth Through Sound: Tuning in to Passions Allowed This Artist to Thrive

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Growing up as an immigrant I witnessed the many struggles my parents endured including leaving Brazil for a country that wasn’t home, far away from everything that felt familiar, and not being able to speak the language. They shifted their lives entirely to create a sustainable lifestyle that afforded me the comforts and opportunities they never had. In many[...]
Finding Inner Peace Through Past Life Regression

Finding Inner Peace Through Past Life Regression

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We've all heard stories of glimmers of past lives; some have even experienced inklings of times that once were be it in a connection with someone or a physical manifestation in the body. Could there be something there floating in the beyond that links us to each of the people that we once were? It seems tough to deny that we all have elements of ourselves ou[...]
Lapel Drives Social Movement Through Songwriting

Lapel Drives Social Movement Through Songwriting

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Debbie Neigher always had trouble expressing her feelings. Despite her parents’ careers in psychology, both she and her brother struggled with communication throughout their childhoods. Then, when she turned 13, Neigher started to write her own music. “My family wasn’t very open or communicative with our emotions,” says Neigher. “Songwriting has always been [...]
You'll fall in Love Love Love with this gloriously awkward music video

You'll fall in Love Love Love with this gloriously awkward music video

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Portuguese DJ Moullinex, aka Luis Clara Gomes, says he's never been a good dancer. "But I like to participate," he tells us. "That’s probably how I became a DJ." What does his latest music video, titled "Love Love Love", have to do with bad dancing? Plenty, actually. Part film clip and part social experiment, the concept was simple: a bunch of people r[...]
Collaboration Begs A Relationship With The Self

Collaboration Begs A Relationship With The Self

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It's no trade secret that collaboration bears the sweetest fruit. The obvious example of such perfectly ripened yield is the work of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, two brilliant musicians in their own rights, but magnitudes better when together. Compare just the second side of Magical Mystery Tour (host to classics like “Penny Lane,” “Strawberry Fields Fore[...]
How A Canceled Flight Changed My Life

How A Canceled Flight Changed My Life

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Last Winter, a Nor'easter slammed into New York City, leaving above-ground trains without service, canceling days of office work for thousands, and accounting for an uptick in beer and wine sales. Had I been in my tiny, Brooklyn apartment that week, my purchases surely would have made up a great deal of those profits. Unfortunately for the local liquor store[...]
The Fusion of Hip Hop and Jazz Inspires a New Sound: TrapJazz

The Fusion of Hip Hop and Jazz Inspires a New Sound: TrapJazz

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Jazz is an innovation of the African American community that originated in New Orleans, and emerged in the 20th century. It has continued to evolve with different sounds from Ragtime to Bebop to Smooth Jazz, and now new genres like TrapJazz and JazzHop. Both genres fuse together the sounds of hip hop and Jazz. TrapJazz specifically blends Jazz with the so[...]
The Fusion of Hip Hop and Jazz Inspires New Sound: JazzHop

The Fusion of Hip Hop and Jazz Inspires New Sound: JazzHop

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A trumpeter since the age of 7, La'Trice Murray has always been a musician.  “I started out on the piano taking lessons from my uncle. Then moved to percussion and the trumpet,” shared Murray. “Music has been my passion since a very early age.” Her love of music and life’s journey has helped her evolve into more than just a musician. La'Trice is an entrep[...]
7 Reasons To Go To Hardly Strictly Music Festival

7 Reasons To Go To Hardly Strictly Music Festival

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Fall has finally arrived in San Francisco and to ring in this cozy season is one of our favorite events, Hardly Strictly! If this is your first fall in the city, you cannot miss out on this weekend-long bluegrass festival. And if you're not in the Bay Area, this is definitely worth the drive. Almost five years since F. Warren Hellman’s passing, his philanth[...]
Why I Quit My 9-5 to Pursue Music

Why I Quit My 9-5 to Pursue Music

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Pure bliss is an underlying craving within us all. The search for happiness is one that has become never-ending in our society. We are conditioned to believe that once you obtain a number of dreams, be it a job, partner, body, or home, you've done it. You have reached the pinnacle of life. Our minds define happiness through the lenses that society has create[...]