Suleika Jaouad
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1,033 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 29 May
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Exactly.
He immediately took his whole band.
They were at rehearsal and showed up.
unannounced at the hospital and right there in my hospital room they began to play and as the sound of John's melodica and Joe's tambourine and Abanda's tuba and Eddie's sax started to float out into the cancer unit all these patients and doctors and nurses kind of came out into the hallway and suddenly everyone began to clap their hands and sing and dance and
It was such an extraordinary moment because I remember thinking to myself, this has probably been my hardest day yet.
And it somehow has gone from my hardest day to one of my most joyous days I've ever had.
And that to me is the power of creativity.
It doesn't necessarily cure, but it can heal.
It can shift the vibration.
It can change the entire energy.
And it's available to all of us all of the time.
And, you know, prior to that day,
I felt like my life was over before it had really begun.
I'd had these dreams of becoming a war correspondent, but there was no way I was going to be able to do that when I couldn't even get out of my hospital bed.
And it wasn't in that exact moment, but I think it planted the seed that started to bloom over the coming weeks and months where I realized that while I couldn't
get on a plane and travel to some far-flung locale and be a war correspondent in the way that I thought there was a lot to report on right there in my hospital room and that I could start writing from the front lines of my hospital bed and what was happening to me and around me.
And so it was such an important moment
And, you know, we weren't even romantically involved then.
But he's someone who his entire life and his entire career has played music, not just in conventional venues, but on the streets and in subways and in hospital rooms, because he really...
believes in the power of music and creativity, not just to bring joy, but to heal.
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