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One Anthem - One World |
by Steve Gabriel
What song involves over 200 people from over 30 countries and numerous performances taking two years to complete? "We Are One - A World Anthem" is the amazing collaboration of musicians that involved 90 recording sessions that included 29 singers, 32 instrumentalists, a 40-person Youth Choir, the building of a 94-person World Community Choir, a 101-person Om Choir, and 22 people from around the world speaking "we are one" in their native language. This powerful song emerged as a result of US singer/song- writer Kevin Reid's lifelong vision to inspire others. In 1989, Kevin founded Musical Expressions, a music school in the Chicago suburb of Naperville, Illinois. A student's mother contacted Kevin in 2004 to share a vision of starting a company focused around a "universal flag" created to represent oneness and other spiritual truths. Kevin was inspired to create the "anthem" that would accompany the flag, and set out with his brother Jimmy, also a musician, to record hundreds of tracks for the song. The track includes a wide diversity of sounds from an Israeli woman proclaiming "we are one" in Hebrew to 6-year-old Brooke from America's heartland who reminds us that "we are one and the truth of life is love." "I can say one thing for sure - the essence of life and who we really are is peace, love and joy. Remove all the other stuff and that's what's there," Kevin said. He sees a pro- found opportunity for humanity to bring forth a higher expression of itself. He describes it as "a global context and necessary crisis that is creating change in all fields of human endeavor."
Part of the anthem:
As I look into my sister's eyes
Immortality is what I find
From the eternal we have come
Let us live in peace as one
Coming together everywhere
It's time for love to vanquish fear
Contact: www.aworldanthem.org
What song involves over 200 people from over 30 countries and numerous performances taking two years to complete? "We Are One - A World Anthem" is the amazing collaboration of musicians that involved 90 recording sessions that included 29 singers, 32 instrumentalists, a 40-person Youth Choir, the building of a 94-person World Community Choir, a 101-person Om Choir, and 22 people from around the world speaking "we are one" in their native language. This powerful song emerged as a result of US singer/song- writer Kevin Reid's lifelong vision to inspire others. In 1989, Kevin founded Musical Expressions, a music school in the Chicago suburb of Naperville, Illinois. A student's mother contacted Kevin in 2004 to share a vision of starting a company focused around a "universal flag" created to represent oneness and other spiritual truths. Kevin was inspired to create the "anthem" that would accompany the flag, and set out with his brother Jimmy, also a musician, to record hundreds of tracks for the song. The track includes a wide diversity of sounds from an Israeli woman proclaiming "we are one" in Hebrew to 6-year-old Brooke from America's heartland who reminds us that "we are one and the truth of life is love." "I can say one thing for sure - the essence of life and who we really are is peace, love and joy. Remove all the other stuff and that's what's there," Kevin said. He sees a pro- found opportunity for humanity to bring forth a higher expression of itself. He describes it as "a global context and necessary crisis that is creating change in all fields of human endeavor."
Part of the anthem:
As I look into my sister's eyes
Immortality is what I find
From the eternal we have come
Let us live in peace as one
Coming together everywhere
It's time for love to vanquish fear
Contact: www.aworldanthem.org
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