My summer trip to Greece in Support of Desmond Child's concert, fundraiser, & awareness campaign to reunite the artifacts from the Parthenon Acropolis - bring them home from The British Museum!

Songs take you places. In writing them, you travel through the wilds of your imagination. Then they travel on their own, taking you into the hearts of people you may never meet. You sing with their voice and they speak with yours. It's a small world after all.

Sometimes you travel to write, record, and perform music. You meet people from all walks of life and expand your horizons. Each song, artist, and project is another stamp in your musical passport and life experience.

Songs took me back to Europe last week after a two-year pandemic travel hiatus. I went to Sesimbra, Portugal, and Athens, Greece, and the whole time I kept thinking: Songs got me here.

My music got me here - sipping green wine, and eating freshly-caught bacalao. Songs are why I’m walking this pristine beach at Lagoa de Albufeira with little fish swimming through my toes. Songs are why I’m at the foot of the Parthenon hearing a song I translated ring out in a 2000-year-old venue.

Songs have given me so many pinch-me moments. Also, songs gave me my great mentor and maestro Desmond Child. Songs can change things. I’m so proud of Desmond and his work to reunite the artifacts from the Parthenon Acropolis & bring them home from The British Museum! What an honor to be part of this opening gala last night. (including a private after-hours tour of the Acropolis Museum by the Director!)