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Flashmag November 2018 www.flashmag.net
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transition time, and how music can be powerful. There are cultures that have always used music in every part of their lives, here we are just discovering this power of music
Some say a life without cause, is a life without effects, how do you want your existence to impact the world?
I want to make a difference. Some people can impact the world in a larger scale, and some others very few. At the end what really matters, is not the number but the positive effect. What I hope when I’m gone is to have helped some peoples feel confident about themselves. Help them thru difficult time. make peoples feel good with my music. In the end we are human beings, we all need each other to be uplifted, and I’m hoping I’m making a difference even if it’s to only one person.
Regina Carter Flashmag and its readership thanks you for this open talk.
Interview by Hubert Marlin
Journalist
history you cannot go anywhere. If you don’t honor the past you will make mistakes. I cannot know for sure where it’s going, but I know it’s been evolving taking different languages. I don’t think it’s going to be only one thing, because you have so many musicians who are bringing their special touch to it. There are so many styles that people are attracted to. I think it will continue to grow and evolve.
As we are closing this talk, do you have a question, you would have wanted me to ask you ?
Yes, other than playing music and teaching what do I do? Well I have a passion working with elders and terminally ill patients. I discovered this passion when my mother was transiting in 2005. I noticed that in hospitals, many elders didn’t have anybody with them, during that crucial time of their last days. Also, when my mother couldn’t speak anymore I would simply play music. Sometimes I would put a record and see her vital signs go up. This was not a good thing, so I will take that record out, and put another one. I figured there was a way to communicate and affect her thru music. After she passed away I took a music therapy class online, at Western Michigan university. But I had to travel to the campus to see music therapists, and I followed them in their journey, and I found out how it’s important to help people thru their