Creating music to touch your heart has been her life long passion. Still at it in her 70's my guest Marsha Malamet send magic into the world. Take time to listen into this episode, feel her energy she shares with you not letting her Parkinson disease take over. Synchronize to her dedication to creation and life.
Determined to be herself as she creates magic, compassion and healing through her music. This is what moves my guest Marsha Malamet deeply. In Marsha words, "It's funny, most of my songs that I've been popular have a spiritual underbelly" or "I call it a moment of grace, when people get who you are and resonate with that. Enjoy all the wisdom she share with you...
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Moving to Oneness; Nourishing Curiosity; Embracing Differences; Becoming One
Meilin Ehlke 0:33
Hello everyone. Welcome to Moving to Oneness. I am your host, Meilin sitting here in Germany and I am having a very, very special guest, two guests really. I am honored to share really a deep intense wisdom today. Which is maybe not easy for all of you to listen to and maybe it is, because that is life, and it influences me and my guest. So please let me introduce you to, Marsha Malamet, sitting in the Los Angeles area. Hello. And I'm so honored that Marsha you said hello to this weird wild idea and I read a little bit about you and you are and have been all your life, very determined to be your free Self. To be wild and to stand for what you believe is right.
Marsha Malamet 2:03
Absolutely.
Meilin Ehlke 2:05
Yeah. And you have also had influence on this planet, I believe, because you wrote words that influenced millions, and now everyone you may ask if you don't know Marsha, and how did you influence. Do you want to speak about it? How did you voice, so much of your wisdom, and influence and impact the planet so much?
Marsha Malamet 2:36
It was. It was just the way I wrote songs. You know, I think is was internal. My feeling that there is one God, the higher power, and the Universe is very smart.
Meilin Ehlke 3:06
I love that expression 'the Universe is really smart'. You're funny.
Marsha Malamet 3:12
And you have heard nothing yet. I had it in me. It was unconscious, because I wanted to write songs. But it seems that my collaborators. We were on the same page.
Meilin Ehlke 3:38
So you were very lucky that you really aligned yourself with the people, I think everyone who's listening, I think Marsha, what you didn't, and what I speak a lot about is to be or surround yourself with people where you can be yourself, right? Because that spurs creation and creativity.
Marsha Malamet 4:00
Yes, definitely. Yes. And it came out one caveat. I don't write lyrics. I'm the composer. So that deepens more prove, that I fell in touch with different writers.
Meilin Ehlke 4:29
So yeah, you gave space for words. You gave energy, you gave a rhythm to words, so they can unfold and be heard totally different by everyone.
Marsha Malamet 4:51
Yes.
Meilin Ehlke 4:52
Very intensely.
Marsha Malamet 4:54
It's funny, most of my songs that I've been popular have a spiritual underbelly.
Meilin Ehlke 5:03
I saw that and you wrote for and composed so much for... songs that were sung by so many different artists, and even a different musical genres, right? From a Barbra Streisand, Chaka Khan, Meatloaf and Luther Vandross.
Marsha Malamet 5:32
And most of those songs were spiritual in nature, Diana Ross.
Michelle White Hart 5:38
Wow.
Meilin Ehlke 5:39
Yes, I listened to some of them and I sensed right away that you provided, yeah, I would say that again at the space and not that space but you brought people and you still bring because the music is still playing. This is what is so fascinating. It never stops playing right, so it gets heard and heard and heard and each time it's heard you bring a certain vibration to people with your music, and I also believe that you raise the vibration for people as they listen and take it into their body.
Marsha Malamet 6:21
You know you. I think you're onto something because it's probably true. I never thought of it that way.
Michelle White Hart 6:34
It's beautiful, Meilin.
Meilin Ehlke 6:35
You provide possibility for people to fathom something else and it is those sounds, these music, these rhythms, these tones, these frequencies. You relax, people into, into that state, that they can go through certain emotions, but as they go through the motions they are kept inspired.
Marsha Malamet 7:05
Yes, they heal.
Meilin Ehlke 7:08
And they heal. Yes
Marsha Malamet 7:12
I thought that my music cracks open hearts.
Michelle White Hart 7:19
Yeah.
Meilin Ehlke 7:20
Wow, yes it is so there was your intention. From the beginning to me?
Marsha Malamet 7:25
What happened with me with the Parkinson's, when I was diagnosed, I didn't want to hear from the doctors anymore I wanted to do my path. And I did. And it was wonderful because you know people, that get cancer you always hear them say, "oh, it was the best thing that ever happened to me". But I never believed that until I got sick too, and it forces you to be open and be more kind and be more generous and just be one with humanity. Because you have nothing but God. And you, you know, it could be lonely when you get diagnosed with an illness. But I felt more with the universe, I felt more with people, I felt closer to people, and it opened up my heart. I said cracked open heart. And I'm much better person being diagnosed than before. So that I'm grateful for. And I think my music connects with people. That way, that something happens inside them where they feel that moved, they cry. And, you know, it changes them, even if they don't know. They're subtle changes, and I'm grateful for that.
Meilin Ehlke 9:33
This is a beautiful gift you bring into the world. And also that acknology. You know, I also, I have cerebral palsy so it's the opposite to yours right. I spasm I get tight, and you get a little more loose in Parkinson, and the visual, you know that most people recognize is the part where we, our body looks different. We walk different or even talk different, but many things are also internally that many people don't see. And I love what you said, because I went through a similar thing you know when you then like a teenager, I learned, the people that became friends with me or would. I said, "oh my god what kind of strong and loving people are those that don't mind who I am". Because I, because you know, if you walk down the street, every one starts looking. And Michelle everyone, Michelle White Hart, is a woman I got to learn to know about five years ago and she's always giving her super energy to Marsha and everyone else in the world as well. Yeah and and you know that they don't mind that they take us as we are and so often in life, people say oh, you're broken. You know, the pity comes, and I've said, you know, but I also what I have it made me strong, it made me look, makes me look different at the world, it lets me see different aspects in people. And maybe that's why, you know, there is an interests of the brain of sound. You know that it all has reason and comes. You said your love now opens the heart and get people's tears to heal them, because they listen to their music. For you, what is it, where you see now that you are learning for yourself that you now have Parkinson, something else that you're bringing now to the world.
Marsha Malamet 11:57
Well, I never felt pity for myself. I never whined. I never felt bad. I'm not depressed. In fact, I'm happy,
Meilin Ehlke 12:09
Yes, because you crack funny jokes. You have like a good sense of humor, that is what you say in English. Yeah.
Marsha Malamet 12:18
Well, you know, we got to have a sense of humor.
Meilin Ehlke 12:23
Yes, I think that's why we live.
Marsha Malamet 12:25
That is medicine.
Michelle White Hart 12:27
And the thing that I love about Marsha is that she lets me imitate her Brooklyn accent, and she laughs at my imitation of her. You got to have humor.
Marsha Malamet 12:38
Yeah. But what is your question?
Michelle White Hart 12:43
What are you bringing?
Meilin Ehlke 12:49
What the question was, you mentioned it a little bit already, but I wanted also to point it out once more. That since you are experiencing a different way of how your body, how your spirit is also embodied and how your body moves. You said it, you become more open And you even more intensely support people in cracking their hearts open, so they can become more loving as you said, you have become more loving.
Marsha Malamet 13:24
Yes. And it's just a question of being true to yourself. Now before getting Parkinson I was what the people wanted me to be, you know. I was not contend with myself I had a lot of fears. And as I grew into the illness. What do I have to fear? So, gradually, I listened to my own thought and my own feelings and I act them out. Instead of being someone that the other person wanted me to be. I was true to myself. And when you are true to yourself people pick up the authenticity.
Meilin Ehlke 14:29
That is beautifully said.
Marsha Malamet 14:31
They just chime with you. You know. I call it a moment of grace, when people get who you are and resonate with that. So, it becomes open, and you could be closed. And then in so doing, they don't feel like they could be an imposter, they become authentic as well. So, it's, it's, that is it.
Meilin Ehlke 15:18
Oh this is fantastic, right, everyone around you. We emanate out what we are, our vibration, right? One thing we can't dictate or make fraud, from missing the word that in the moment. Right. You can't play it. People sense right away once vibration. And even if they don't acknowledge it, they sense that somehow or their body in what sense is out. So, the key as he was speaking about opening the heart becoming more then, they came a song, I would like to sing. It's different than your beautiful music everyone. Marsha has been at Lincoln Center and on an amazing tour around the world and this is something. You don't sing so much anymore, Marsha. So, I think you should sing and so if you want to sing with me or after me chime in, do that. Because I don't have this melodic rhythms that seem to be important. I remember the first time I sung someone said, "oh yeah that's not harmonious". I said, that's exactly it, the non harmonic changes something inside us, is the unraveling, the unclicking, the pulling apart and plugging in together and that's the healing sounds. And this also happens when we speak. So there's a song for you, Marsha, Michelle and every one of you listening now to Moving To Oneness.
Meilin Ehlke 19:12
(Song)
Meilin Ehlke 18:42
Ah an audience. Thank you.
Marsha Malamet 19:16
What language is that?
Meilin Ehlke 19:18
I sense it came, something from an ancient language from the Spanish area that is closed where the Africa border was, because there was this sadness and I heard it in a song long time ago when I sang and I didn't sing a man, I sang a woman at that time, it was the pain of separation. But cultural separation of land. The tears One has felt. And then I think the healing began within the song, and the positivity and inspiration of what is coming when you open up yourself.
Marsha Malamet 20:04
Beautiful and resonated with me. You have a great voice.
Meilin Ehlke 20:09
Oh, Thank you. And I never know when I opened my mouth what comes out. It is the fascinating part I surprise myself sometimes Marsha, it goes very high, angelic, sometimes it sounds more like Star nations, or the languages of cultures that are existing around the world.
Marsha Malamet 20:33
Though you channel it.
Meilin Ehlke 20:35
Yes.
Marsha Malamet 20:37
I'm on it. Thank you.
Meilin Ehlke 20:40
Did you feel some also within in yourself? Did something loosen up or does it still vibrate I think it's still vibrating within you.
Marsha Malamet 20:51
I feel it. Yes. You know, I closed my eyes when I listen to music, some people do, I don't. But this I automatically closed my eyes to feel more of an internal process. And that's what I did. I felt it in my solarplexus.
Meilin Ehlke 21:18
Whoo. Fantastic, thank you. Wonderful. Yeah. You know, I had to think about sometimes when I know who I'm speaking to I sense the energy. And Michelle, you mentioned that Marsha. Marsha you don't sing or write so much anymore, even tones. And I had the sense, do try again, or do, even if it's a few notes or a few tones. There's something about that is developing within you will now. Masha. That is so different than what's out there and it will have like it's, it, it, the potency, there is a higher potency behind what you are going to create and to share with the world.
Marsha Malamet 22:16
Thank you. I've certainly need it. I certainly need to vent my creativity, my thoughts, my feelings. I haven't had a chance to do it, so many years, but now I think I'm ready.
Meilin Ehlke 22:39
Oh, I'm so happy. But you can see your smiling all over my face. And you have a beautiful smile and Michelle, because I have to say that because some people won't see the video they will hear only the podcast. Right. But there is a glow also within all three of us, it is when creative beings come together and we spiral into one intention, into really one intent to create beauty for humanity.
Marsha Malamet 23:18
Exactly.
Meilin Ehlke 23:18
Things like this happen.
Marsha Malamet 23:21
I agree.
Meilin Ehlke 23:23
Yeah. Marsha I don't want to keep you too long. But if you would. do you have something else to share with the audience?
Marsha Malamet 23:36
Yes. This thing that always got in my way was fear. Fear of things, fear of people, fear of situations, etc. But, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the President of the United States during World War II said it all. He said that you have nothing to fear but fear itself. And taken from me, don't be fearful, take risks, take risks, go out there, Live your life. Love, love, love is a healing power. You know, I had to come to terms with people I resented. When I got sick, and sure enough, I worked on it, and now they don't affect me. In fact, I love them, but they're imperfect. So, we all are imperfect. We are all trying to get better. To be more happy. You know, but it's a hard thing when you don't know the truth. The truth is, love is the highest power. So open your heart love all, love mankind, love your friends, love your enemies that is the key. You have to find it in your heart to feel human emotions, kindness, generosity. You know love for people that you don't like the stats to beginning appealing. And I'm still on the road, no one gets to the goal line. You're always in process. And just know that everyone is the same, we're all in it together. So, open your heart. Be a kind person. Feel that human touch. You know, and live your life, but don't be afraid. Take it from me. It's a waste of time.
Meilin Ehlke 26:17
Everyone, listen to Marsha, she has experienced so much. The show here would take days. It was only a start on the impact she has. Take her words that she just spoke, really deep into yourself, breathe them in. Pull them in within your soul, into your body into everyday action. Do not be afraid of anyone. Look at them how they are. And I have to agree with you, Marsha I think we all want to be loved and that's what we're searching. We have different experiences in life and if we see that loving being in everyone, that wants to receive this love, the moment we acknowledge and say oh yes you are, you need some of my love. Here it is. And it's cosmic love and it's unending. Love is unending. You can separate it, you put it into 1000 parts and it's still huge, it doesn't minimize. It just gets warmer and softer. The more you give it to people when you sense that they needed, don't hold back, don't hold it back, of others. Don't say, "no they don't deserve love". They do they all deserve it. Everyone, you know there's not even an expression, you shouldn't even use it 'deserve' it, but that's used so often. So, open your heart and be yourself, be creative. Don't hold back, share your gift with the world.
Meilin Ehlke 28:06
So thank you everyone for listening. Marsha thank you. Michelle thank you for supporting me and Marsha in having this magical conversation on the Moving To Oneness show. I will put some information about you also in all the show notes. So, do look at what Marsh did. She wrote a song 'Crazy Love', and you speak a lot about love, sung by so many people over the decades.
Marsha Malamet 28:32
Could I say one thing.
Meilin Ehlke 28:34
Yes, sure.
Marsha Malamet 28:35
I have a project coming up. That will be on my website and on my Facebook page. I'm having a lot of women that have, that I've known performers, that I've known and some I am fans of. They're gonna sing my songs. Because I can't. So, I am getting these fabulous performers to sing and it's going to be released next year. It's called 'Marsha and the girls'. And so your audience should look out for that.
Meilin Ehlke 29:24
Everyone, look out for Marsha and the girls coming out next year, and support it with your energy with your love. Share it with all the girls in your life. Because when Marsha sets intention to heal through sound, do take it in and spread that love. Thank you everyone.
Marsha Malamet
Thank you Meilin
Meilin Ehlke
Thank you
Marsha Malamet
Bye