#88 Tracy Silverman, electric violinist
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Tracy Silverman remembers listening to music with his father as young as 2 or 3 years old and by 5, he had been totally smitten by the violin and started taking lessons. He practiced incessantly and eventually attended The Juilliard School. After that, he started playing in rock bands and began making electric 6 string violins. \\u201cI wanted to play violin so it sounded like an electric guitar because that is the voice of my generation.\\u201d \\u201cMusic is a language,\\u201d Tracy says, \\u201cand I didn\\u2019t want to be singing in an old-fashioned language.\\u201d He says he had a \\u201cdesire to touch people, to connect people \\u2026 in a language they understood.\\u201d\\xa0
Tracy says music is \\u201cpowerful enough that plenty of crazy orthodox religions ban it because it moves people.\\u201d Rhythmic music makes people respond with their bodies, so something is going on there, he says, and when added with the human voice or instruments that mimic the voice, it is a \\u201cpretty potent substance there that can target your emotional brain.\\u201d He believes musicians have an incredible responsibility when they are able to touch people deeply to open up something in them and that music can be a \\u201creal instrument for social good.\\u201d