On the Internet, I can manufacture my own philharmonic orchestra, with string sections and woodwinds playing my music from all over the world, as I did with my orchestral album " Circus in the Sky, " which is a full representation of my approach to music and storytelling.

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Throughout this process, I figured out that no matter how bad of a day I had at school, I could come home and create my own world within the music.

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"Then, to my surprise, I discovered world music, which at first seemed very peculiar to me, " he said.

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My duty is to travel the world and play music for people.

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But I'm going to write about my brother who digs rocks at a granite quarry, not my first brother who lives in the world of music.

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But to know today what gospel music has done for my life and just for the world, in general, I never could have imagined it.

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If this message could ever get to Mr. Medley, I would want to tell him he is, in my opinion, and remains a pioneer in a style of music and art still so vital, the world goes nuts over anyone who can remotely do what they were doing all along.

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Also, my dorm's high-speed Internet connection allowed me to stream music from noncommercial stations all around the world, like BBC Radio 1, to see what we would be listening to stateside in another six months.

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