Melanie Charles covers Alicia Myers for SoS and The 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
"Music has always been my personal refuge and escape, and I find that everyone, for the most part feels the same way about music. There's always a song that you can put on when you're feeling down, when you need an upper or maybe you're too excited and you need to chill out. The nostalgia of things, maybe the song that your mom was playing when you're a little kid. There's a song that my mom would play...that gives me goose bumps anytime I hear it. That is really the juice of life, the sonic memories... it has the power to change the chemicals in your brain. Like how incredible is that? I'm really grateful that we have music in the world, and even as a creator of music, it still is my medicine as well.....And I started seeing a therapist, it's been about two, three years now, and it's changed my life, and it's like a ripple effect. I've encouraged my mom to do the same, my brother to do the same, because I think that it really is a lifeline to navigate the challenges of this life.” - Melanie Charles
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Today we’re releasing our next video in partnership with the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline and “Song That Found Me At The Right Time” series. This one features the rising New York City-based, Haitan-American artist Melanie Charles, a singer-songwriter, actress, and flutist who spans jazz, soul, gospel and experimental music. Melanie Charles performs the song “I Wanna Thank You” by Alicia Myers and chats with us about her experiences surrounding mental health and the presence of music, basketball and community in keeping up her wellbeing.
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“Mental health is like a leaf. Some leaves have like a brown line. Some of them the whole leaf is turning brown. We all have different degrees of struggles, you know what I'm saying? But it's like all a beautiful plant when it comes to maintaining optimal mental health.”
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