Vibrational medicine

Singing and sound have shaped my life.

Not unlike how iron filings arrange themselves into intricate patterns when placed on a metal plate and vibrated with sound waves.

This study of wave phenomena, called Cymatics, was explored by German scientist Hans Jenny in the 1930s. His work visually demonstrated how sound shapes matter.

We are all being shaped by everything that is vibrating within us and around us and we are all making intricate patterns of our lives whether we mean to or not.

My musical shaping began early, singing with my father in musicals and concerts. He was the featured performer, while I sang in the chorus—where I felt more comfortable, able to blend in with others.

I was a shy kid. When I wanted to sing at home, I’d go into the closet and shut the doors behind me.

And when I came out of that closet—I really came out of it. For the next 20 years, I sang for my bread and butter, traveling the world: concert halls in China, smoky clubs in Finland and the UK, and dark and hidden jazz kellers in Germany and the U.S.

I became the first white “Supreme” in history, backing up Mary Wilson of The Supremes through Europe and U.S.—witnessing the Motown era through backstage eyes.

I performed a solo in David Foster’s Can’t You Feel It at the 1988 Olympics in Calgary and wrote the World Championships theme song in 2001. I recorded four albums and wrote three theme songs.

I was shaped by all of it—carving intricate patterns inside me that I would spend the next 20 years re-harmonizing. Re-turning toward a state of inner alignment from a place of dissonance.

As amazing as those experiences were, they left a toll. My body and psyche were exhausted. The intensity of it all triggered old, unresolved wounds I hadn’t yet faced.

My voice collapsed. So did I.

I didn’t know how to move forward.

So I became still. I listened.

And healing came—not through grand performances, but through one simple note. I sang one note. I felt the ripple. Then another. And slowly, the current of healing began to move through my body.

It was shocking—and deeply needed. With each tone, I felt myself returning. I began to feel my essence—how it could be touched by sound.

To my surprise, the voice I had directed outward for so long turned inward. The healing sound of my own voice became medicine, pouring through my being.

I know firsthand the power of the voice to heal—physically, emotionally and spiritually. I have spent years letting it soften and open me to my core.

I didn’t begin this journey for the scientifically proven benefits—relief from stress and anxiety, enhanced creativity, improved concentration.

I didn’t do it to rebalance my brain hemispheres or stimulate alpha waves.

I wasn’t seeking to activate my kundalini or move cerebrospinal fluid through my spine.

All I was trying to do was feel my way back to wholeness.

To feel my voice move through my body.
To wake myself up, piece by piece.
To remember the beauty of my voice.
To remind myself how alive I feel when I sing.

And yet—those other benefits came anyway.
Because feeling was the key that unlocked them.

I felt the anxiety lift.
I felt my spine begin to flow again.
I felt my hemispheres balance, a deep rest take hold.
A sense of well-being began to root itself in me.

As we now understand, our bodies are mostly water. The naked voice can enter that stillness, creating ripples of healing—if we are open to receiving it.

One drop of sound can bring a profound rest to the body—a stillness that restores.

To close, I offer the words of Nestor Kornblum, the former Director of the Association of Sound Healing:

“Through the regular use of sound combined with intention, we may begin to vibrate faster at a cellular or molecular level. This is what is meant by raising your frequency.
The higher the vibration, the more spaciousness exists between our cells, making us less dense and less susceptible to negative or intrusive energies.

In the 1930s, the medium Edgar Cayce predicted that sound would be the medicine of the future. That future is now.

So let’s raise our vibration—to harmonize with the energies of this new millennium.