FEATURE INTERVIEW
Using Music to Heal your Life
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INTERVIEW AND ARTICLE MICHELLE R PRICE
Singer-songwriter Katie Underwood has just released her fourth studio album of meditation music and is super excited. The former pop star has enjoyed a 30-year career in the music industry but her taste in music has shifted dramatically over the years from jazz and dance to meditation music.
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atie said her parents reckon she has been singing since about the age of two and it continued from there. Although her parents aren’t musicians, she said they did play music often when she was growing up. Katie began piano lessons from the age of six and joined the choir at
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age 11. She also found herself performing solo in front of audiences as large as 2000 after responding to a request from her primary school. She jokes that this was her, “First big break.” She lost touch with music when she entered University in Adelaide. She admits her parents didn’t think music was a real career and wasn’t a reliable income. Katie didn’t reconnect with music until she moved to Melbourne around four years later. She began to write jazz and dance tunes and that kicked off a 30-year career. Katie is largely remembered for being part of Bardot. The all-female group won Popstars in 2000. She said the best thing about being tied up in dance music is it was a community. People were all there for the same reason, she said. As she grew in years and wisdom Katie turned to something which has brought her peace in her life. She studied to become a Meditation Teacher and Member of the Meditation Association of Australia. She has also studied Sound Healing, which inspired her journey into Mantra Meditation. She explained that her journey is, “Definitely a reflection of my own personal spiritual journey and I feel much more aligned with this sort of music… which is very heavily mantrawww.spiritualeventsdirectory.com
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