19th International Jazz Festival. Via Wikimedia Commons

“This is where my singing comes from”

I took a lot of people to visit the rock ‘n’ roll exhibit at the Rimini Meeting. One day, I accompanied a jazz singer. She has been working in the jazz music world, replete with recordings and concerts, for many years...

Dear Fr. Julián:

I took a lot of people to visit the rock ‘n’ roll exhibit at the Rimini Meeting. One day, I accompanied a jazz singer. She has been working in the jazz music world, replete with recordings and concerts, for many years. While we were walking through the exhibit and I was explaining the contents of the panels, I saw that she had tears in her eyes. I asked her, “Is everything okay?” She answered, “Yes, more than okay. For the first time, I understand what I have always tried to express in singing and performing on stage.” She was there, an agnostic, and found in the exhibit an echo of her own questions: What do I communicate? Where does that “something” that I feel the urgency to sing about come from? This was the most beautiful and intense moment of my experience at the Meeting. We are part of an immense history, which touches and reaches people in many ways–including through this exhibit.

Walter, Padua (Italy)