#107 Kevin Roy Kramer, composer, performer, educator

Published: Dec. 4, 2019, 5 a.m.

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Kevin Roy Kramer has been listening to the Planetary Gig Talk podcasts, has attended Victor Wooten\\u2019s camps, and reached out to me so I invited him to do a podcast interview. What a smart, eclectic, thoughtful, cool guy!

Kevin started with the recorder in 4th grade, trumpet in 5th grade, guitar in 8th grade, and now also plays drums and other instruments. Kevin says, \\u201cMusic is a way for people to just express themselves as themselves.\\u201d He also says music \\u201cis a great way to connect and reconnect with yourself and it\\u2019s a source of renewable joy.\\u201d

Kevin is a very spiritual human too, and has been practicing yoga for some time and also setting mantras to music, i.e., cosmic chants. He says we have been in a visually oriented society and the auditory has been overshadowed. He says sound and vibration are building blocks to our material world. \\u201cMusic actively enriches our lives.\\u201d

\\u201cI know how music has helped me and inspired me, and so if I can make music that down the road helps other people and inspires them, then mission accomplished, I suppose.\\u201d Kevin says that the power of music is really the power of love. It\\u2019s more than just the love of two people; \\u201cwe have so much in common, we\\u2019re all in this together.\\u201d

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