What is the music space in your life?
When was the last time you attended a music show?
When was the last time you listened to your favorite CD?
When was the last time you sang to your child at bedtime?
When was the last time you were excited about a song?
Music is also a matter of habit.
Just like eating, sleeping and drinking water.
It only depends on you waking up in the morning and turning on the sound of your house.
My father had a huge collection of CDs.
I remember a Children’s Day in which he took me and my brother
and said: “Today you will choose your gift.
You will choose a national and an international artist. “
And I have the CDs stored to this day.
My life has always been very musical.
I always sang.
And I’m sure you all sing too.
There is a song that you all sing.
This song, in France, is more or less like this,
anyone who knows can sing with me:
Joyeux anniversaire
In English it is:
Happy birthday to you
In Portuguese from Portugal it is:
Today is a day of celebration,
sing our souls
Music unites people.
My heart has always been a very musical heart.
But there’s a place where they can not see the heart.
The way I see it.
It is a place where people spend hours, days,
weeks, years,
sometimes, a lifetime.
In this place, they see the heart like that.
This place is a hospital,
is where people work 24 hours
so that your heart will not stop beating.
Imagine the sounds of a hospital now.
The sound of the beating heart, tchu, tchu, tchu.
The sound of the litter.
The sound of the doctor’s heel walking down the hall.
Imagine that, suddenly, the sound of a violin begins.
Everyone forgets that moment, those noises,
and give space to music.
They are transported to another place.
And this is what we do:
We take music to hospitals in São Paulo.
The work began in a completely unpretentious way,
exactly on a Children’s Day,
where we were hired to play in the emergency room of a children’s hospital.
The work went so well
that the people in the rooms wanted to hear the music,
and could not come down because they had access.
We started climbing, touching the rooms.
Then we started playing at the ICU.
And that work has been gaining tremendous grandeur.
We got together and made the Saracura Group.
I and three other partners founded the project Sing for Sarar.
And today, the work has more than 30 professional musicians,
are more than 100 visits per month, there is music every day in the hospital.
This morning there was music in the hospital.
There are ten public hospitals and six private hospitals
that hire people in a private way
and receive the routine visit one to seven times a week.
In this hospital where we started, we played seven times a week.
We are part of the hospital humanization of this hospital.
Then, it has the prescription of the psychologist:
“Please come in the room like that and then give me feedback on how it went.”
There are more than 85,000 people impacted each year.
All our musicians are professional musicians,
they live on the music.
They play harp, viola caipira …
Imagine the spell that this causes inside a hospital.
Often, the person’s first contact with live music
it is through Saracura.
But it is not easy to be a Saracura musician.
Sometimes we have to sing in a mask.
because we work in ICU,
we work with contact insulation restrictions,
respiratory isolation,
and all these people deserve this musical moment.
We play that music is from 0 to 100 years old.
And we work a lot with babies, babies in neonatal ICU.
We did a survey with mothers of the neonatal ICU
who receive the visit frequently,
and mothers begin to sing more to their children.
They learn new music.
And they create new forms of bonding between mother and baby.
Besides the babies, we also have the elderly.
This case was from a man on hemodialysis,
he had his own songs
and brought new music every week for the musicians to play.
He said medical treatment was in a hand
and the treatment of music was in the other.
But beyond the patients,
we have very special and very important people inside the hospital.
When we touch nurses,
it is a time when we can take care of who is taking care of.
They work at Christmas, they work at New Year,
they are working now, on holiday,
very dedicated and very loving.
And it’s really very transformative.
And within the many stories of Saracura, we had very striking stories.
We had two UTI stories that were very striking.
One such story was in a pediatric hospital,
We went to the ICU routinely.
It was a family in which the girl was sedated, always sedated,
but the parents always wanted the music and we played.
Until there was a day when we knocked on the door,
and this mother was very depressed.
We offered the song and she said:
“I want you to play a song for my daughter.
But it will be her last song.
because they will turn off the appliances.
It’s going to be her last song. “
When we entered, he held the emotion,
she said:
“But sing a cheerful song.”
And I remember to this day that we sang the song of the Worm, the Lion and the Duck.
At that moment, the mother was very moved.
When she finished the song, she said,
“I’m sure my daughter really liked the song.
Thank you.
I hope you will continue to do this work for a long time. “
At that moment, we participated in the passage of that girl.
It was as if we consecrated, there, at that moment, through music.
The other story of the ICU happened to these two musicians.
They were in the ICU of a hospital,
knocked on the door
and asked if the family would like to hear a song.
This girl was also sedated, it was a girl who was in a coma.
The family said, “Yes, we want a song.”
They started playing the song,
and suddenly began to accelerate the heart rate of this girl.
And she opened her eyes.
She was in a coma, and suddenly in the middle of the song she opened her eyes.
Nurse came, doctor came, everyone came, it was a commotion.
And then her mother said, “This song is the touch of her cell phone.”
(Laughs)
Look at the power that music has!
This has happened in the history of Saracura twice in two different hospitals.
We do not know scientifically what happens,
but it happened and it was a very beautiful awakening moment.
Well, that’s why I believe that music touches people.
It has touched me since I was born.
She can play in your house.
She can play in your car.
She can play in a hospital.
Our Brazil is very, very rich.
We have samba, we have maracatu,
There’s a lot of good things.
There’s a lot of good music.
And I’m sure you’re going to have some music now.
which will cherish your heart, which can bring peace,
which can bring joy, which can bring comfort,
which can remind you of a good memory that can bring you homesickness.
I believe our heart is like this.
(Laughs)
As long as you have music, you will have life.
And this life here, oh, it does not stop pulsing.
Music is the medicine of the soul.
And when the soul is well,
the rest, everything, flows well.
Thank you.
(Applause)
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