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Your Heart Beats Like Mine |
"I envision a world where there are authentic relationships and authentic communications." says peace troubadour Cecilia St. King, "Where we recognize that we are all in it together and have to work together to make our world better."
Inspired by the late sixties movie Jesus Christ Superstar where Judas sings to Christ 'if you would have come today you would have had a whole nation, Israel in 4 B.C. had no mass communication.' Cecilia brings hope that a better world is possible. "This is what I have come here to do," says Cecilia "to bring peace to the world through my words, through my songs using mass communication."
Cecilia was born a peace troubadour, feeling at an early age an enormous amount of anxiety about war. She couldn't understand how people could kill each other, it didn't make sense. She decided to change all that by using music as a vehicle.
Going through enormous tragedy herself as a cancer survivor, Cecilia began to sing songs for people who were going through heartaches and trauma. Cecilia also performs as a clown. Through her company Laugh-a-Lot Productions, she reaches out to children confined in hospitals, just as she once was.
After 9/11 she went to ground zero and started singing. For a few seconds people forgot where they were, Cecilia recalls. "A woman from Bulgaria asked if she could sing a song, another from Spain, a Portuguese man wrote a poem which was translated by a woman from the Bronx. In that moment I saw what the world is really like. I realized out of the chaos came a gift."
In coffee houses, clubs, churches, at peace rallies, through DemocracyFest and the Peace Alliance, people seek Cecilia out looking for hope, answers and truth. Currently based in Kingston, NY, she has lived in Colorado and Nashville, Tennessee, and toured in Europe, Japan, and New Zealand.
Cecilia next wants to extend a handshake to the Middle East. "How can we look into another face when God exists in them, as God exists in me, then fight them? We can't exist without each other," says Cecilia, "That's why I am so passionate about peace. We ask this of our children, how we can not ask this from our leaders." From her song Peace on Earth she sings, So come my friend lets break a little bread Tell me 'bout your life - what's on your mind He said, we can get a long - if we try Heah, my heartbeats like yours - your heart beats like mine
