I listened to the new music of Esha Alwani yesterday, and it hit me that this chick is just 14, and she already managed to release six of her own original songs, which she wrote, composed, performed and accompanied on guitar and piano.
“Music is my Therapy,” is an impressive accomplishment for a young woman from Aruba.
The songs are very personal; they describe her transformation over the past years from a pre-teen diagnosed with Tourette’s syndrome to an accomplished musician and poet.
Every one of the songs on the EP is a compact, nicely worked out insight, and the string of songs together clearly narrates Esha journey from darkness and confusion to light and creativity.
Her first track “Beautiful” is very mature for her age, as the young woman finds out that the evolution of her pretty face through a personal crisis is just another way of showing off her beauty.
“Yesterday,” her second track, has lovely, touching lyric, and a haunting sound, Esha describes her crossing from a perfect yesterday to an uncertain present and future, and longs to “take it back to yesterday,” reverse the progress of time.
But she proves herself a survivor, through thick and thin, she reaches the point where all of her the tears turn to “Sweet Water,” and she can experiences joy again, on her fifth track.
There is a poetic progression here that is ear-pleasing and meaningful, attesting to personal growth.
On her Facebook page Esha posts the following testimonial: “On this page I will share my original music which is my way of coping. I hope that my music will inspire you.”
And inspiring it is. Sometime in the course of the past few years Esha took to music, playing the guitar and the piano. Her middle school music teacher immediately recognized her talent and urged her parents to support it. The wise parental-unit did not just support Esha, on her own terms, but they fully endorsed their daughter’s quest and put her in touch with a professional producer who loved her material, and in turn invited her into a recording studio in Nashville, where accompanied by top professionals the EP was recorded and mixed.
It will shortly be available on the island, and all proceeds from the sale of the disc will go to the Autism Foundation Aruba.
The young artist already performed in the community theater of Boca Raton, Florida, and at the Tourette’s conference, in Arlington, Virginia. She’s active on Facebook and Snapchat, so catch up with her on social media.
From her Facebook page: Being 13 is tough, let alone being 13 and stared at. Diagnosed for the first time at age 7, Esha’s world became a very quiet place. Tourette’s syndrome, a brain & nervous system disorder that can cause sudden and embarrassing movements and sounds, turned Esha inwardly, where she found music. Music helped her regain her voice, in more than one way. Esha is now putting herself and her tic disorder in the spotlight…. She wants the world to know that Tourette’s might be a part of her – but it is not who she is.
Make sUre you get the EP: Music Is My Therapy, By Esha Alwani