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Sophie B. Hawkins
“We don’t have to turn music on. It’s always pulsing around and within us.”
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NATIONAL | SCENE STEALERS | 07.14.2010 | Lindsey Canant .
Singer-songwriter and Manhattan native Sophie B. Hawkins’s sweet melodies have earned her a Grammy nomination, the longest-running hit single on the Billboard Chart, and platinum records. She’s using her next single “The Land, The Sea, and the Sky” – from her upcoming album Dream Street & Chance -- to help restore nature’s harmony to the Gulf region. All profits will go to Waterkeeper Alliance, an organization on the frontlines of the oil spill cleanup efforts (download the single at www.sophiebhawkins.com ). Just like the environment she hopes to protect, Sophie’s lyrics (and her answers to our questions!) are poetic and fresh. |
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Why music and nature? What connects them?
Music is the story of humanity struggling to be whole, to be triumphant, to be shameless and happy and mournful and real. Music is perfect in nature. Just look at the bird and whale songs, the wind, and the waves. For us humans it’s still an unsolved equation. We don’t have to turn music on.
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