Music is food for the soul

Blog 4 – ‘music is food for the soul’

I came up with this saying about 3 years ago when I started to learn the guitar, but I am sure others have come to the same saying. Synchronicity! Anyways, I truly believe this.

Music is phenomenal. It can change our moods. It can create events and events recalled through music. Memories are wrapped in music. It can make you fall in love. It can make your day. So much of our lives evolves around music.  People will fly for miles to see their favourite band or artist play and sometimes it is only but one song. It brings us sanity, joy, tears, melancholy, happy and makes us dance. Where would our Souls be without music? How dull would this Earth be if we did not have the music or the concerts to go to or even hearing music when watching TV. The title song can sometimes make or break a movie.

For me, I always grew up listening to music of all kinds albeit I would have my preferences. My early influences were Bread, Uriah Heep, Black Sabbath, Donna Summers, Ritchie Blackmore, Rod Stewart, The Beatles. I bought their LP’s with money I saved working on the streets opening cart doors at a famous local eating spot on Orchard Road, Singapore. Then the next wave was Earth Wind & Fire, The Eagles, Manhatton Transfer, Chillites, Elton John. Then in the 80’s I followed every hit song and spent lots of times dancing to music. Then came the golden days when Disco hit the world.

Incredibly in 80’s & 90’s saw a wave of musicals that were stage hits on Broadway come alive on the movie screen. Jesus Christ Superstar, Grease Lightning, Flashdance, Fame, Footloose and many more Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webster now a ‘Sir’ like Elton John and Paul McCarthy. And of course special mention to the King of Pop over decades – Michael Jackson. Coincidently he was born just 3 months before I was so I literally ‘grew up’ during his time and related so much to his music as he broke records and created so many new things in music and video. RIP MJ.

All of this fed my soul and kept me alive. It kept my sanity and was a source for me to ‘escape’ my daily life and feel happy. I’m sure when you hear a particular song from years ago you would remember where you were at such time, who or which guy/girl you were with, the lifestyle that you had then? And you would have a silent smile? Ha ha..