Hidden Music Gems from the iPod
Here’s a suggestion if you’re an iPod or .mp3 player owner. Rather than playing your favorite albums and songs, set your player to randomly select songs. You’ll find great tunes you’d forgotten about – what I like to call hiden gems. Here are a quick 5 that I found on my iPod recently:
All That I Need is Love by Melody Gardot
Melody Gardot Interview Part 1 (Verve Recording Artist Discusses Music Therapy)
At the age of 19, Melody Gardot was struck by an SUV while riding a bicycle in a nearly fatal accident. In this interview, Melody discusses her amazing story of how music therapy faciliated her recovery, and ultimately led to a career as a world-renowned recording artist on the Verve recording label.
The interview is conducted by Craig M. Cortello, The “Business Musician” for a series of podcasts entitled Potential of Music that illuminated the benefits of music and music education.
Woman battling cancer finds strength in her music
Music & Healing – a topic we’ve covered here before. This from the Fayetteville Observer in NC:
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Here are some related posts from our archives:
Uplifting Music Therapy Story: Verve Recording Artist Melody Gardot
Uplifting Music Therapy Story: Verve Recording Artist Melody Gardot
Continuing with yesterday’s theme of the ever-expanding applications of music therapy, meet Ms. Melody Gardot. Melody suffered a near-fatal accident when struck by an SUV while riding a bike at the age of nineteen. She turned to music therapy as an alternative to the numerous pain medications that doctors prescribed.
She has now signed with the Verve record label and is touring the world promoting her 2nd full-length album, My One and Only Thrill.
I had the pleasure of interviewing Ms. Gardot in 2008 and wrote a feature for AllAboutJazz.com. Here’s the link to the article entitled, “Parallels of Recovery: Melody Gardot Finds Inspiration in the Spirit of New Orleans”
To sample Melody’s music and learn more about tour dates and info, visit the Melody Gardot website.
Listen to an audio excerpt of my interview with Melody:
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