Borinquen

There's Music especially around the holidays that everyone knows all the songs and then a style called Plena.

Originally a protest music and emerging from the black population of the island of Puerto Rico or Boriquen.

And this experience was so formative for me and so joyful and so unifying that it became a part of my ethos and part of my value system around music.

Fast forward to when I was... decently after college and chose to do a sound voice and music healing certificate program at CIIS in San Francisco.