About Me
I chose "other" because there was no "all of the above". I am a singer, award-winning songwriter, musician, speaker, author, fan. I'm a leader of a non-profit organization (Itoi Ministries), a church music consultant, and I am certainly a promoter of Posi music and its artists.
"As President and co-founder of emPower Music & Arts Richard is at the epi-center of the budding new industry known as Posi Music and the more spiritual offshoot called New Thought. Just as contemporary Christian music found its immense popularity through its gospel roots, so Posi Mjsic will find its way into mainstream culture through the grass roots audience that is the congregations of Unity, CSL, Divine Science and other transendentalist movements."
In our increasingly small and interdependant world emPower Music & Arts is here to create an international hub for music that unites people – music that empowers and heals and music that emphasises our similarities as members of one human race sharing one planet.
EMA is an idea that began in Nashville, TN around 1996 or 7 and was postponed because of my move to Kansas City providing music for retreats at Unity Village spiritual retreat center. When that job ended and with the help and dedication of people like Kathy Gee, Sue Riley and Russ Hammock, emPower was born and proud to be hosting the 10th annual Posi Awards in February, 2015.
My wife Paula graduated from Unity Institute with her MDiv and Ordination as a Unity minister in June 2013 and was immediately hired by Unity Renaissance in Chesapeake Virginia where we now reside. I love having one foot in the mainstream or secular pool of Posi music and the other in the New Thought pool where I can sing and play and speak and help people become spiritually independent – spiritually aware. And what could be beter than doin' that with the one you love.
Join empower in our mission by becoming a supporting member and attending the annual Posi Music Festival
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