Composer Hussein Janmohamed will perform at the St. John's HarbourVOICES! festival next week. In this image he is doing the introduction for the Vancouver Youth Choir at World Symposium on Choral Music, Turkey.
(Ki Adams/submitted by Hussein Janmohamed ) The HarbourVOICES! festival arrives in St. John's next week, with singers not only sharing great music and song but also the unifying and healing power of music. HarbourVOICES! is an international festival where 1,400 singers from around Canada and the world gather for concerts, workshops and events where audience are encouraged to take an active part in the creation of music.
The festival starts Saturday, June 29 and runs until July 4, at the Mary Brown's Centre. Hussein Janmohamed is a choral artist who lived in Canada since he was 6 years old but has Northwest-Indian roots that inspire his art. He was born in Nairobi, Kenya.
He spoke with the CBC's Heather Barrett on Weekend AM radio show. The following has been edited for length and clarity. Audio True harmony How did you first get involved with music? A - The first memories of singing I have are being sung to by my grandmother and mother's lullabies as a child.
The second memory I have is going to our prayer halls as an Ismaili Muslim and being immersed in a fervent sound of piety, praise and love. Especially, I remember going to one prayer ceremony and I was there with my mom and all the women were surrounding me, and I was still a young kid. I was surrounded in what I .
