It was almost as if many of the facts I had to memorize, the intellectual skills I had to develop, could ride the wave of music to enter my brain and get processed or stored. Most of the time when I was studying, I would have pop music playing in my room, as I felt that it helped to increase my productivity. From 5 th standard onwards, I had become a fervent listener of pop music – by groups such as Boney M and Abba in the 2 nd half of the 1970s, and then in the early 1980 the British music revolution (the Human League, Culture Club). Good music was able to directly go to one’s deepest portions of one’s innerself, or what some would call, the soul. It turned out, that I found it in art, more particularly in music and dance.įrom my childhood onwards, I had been very interested in listening to music, because music was powerful. I couldn’t find it in my immediate environment. It had to go deeper, it had to penetrate through my skull and reach my brain …and plant a long-lasting spark that could keep igniting a source of energy. A lucky charm that I could hang around my neck wasn’t going to suffice. But I needed something that could be a source of inspiration and strength during such challenging moments, because the road was going to be long. The urge to break out of my shell grew in strength. (Man in the mirror – Michael Jackson (written by Seidah Garrett and Glen Ballard) Take a look at yourself, and then make a change If you wanna make the world a better place (a chapter of Koen’s autobiography about his life in 1988) Finding the spark to ignite the changeĪnd no message could have been any clearer
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