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The Light Watkins Show

54: Maejor on Breaking Into Music Production, and Discovering the Healing Power of High Frequency Music

The Light Watkins Show

Light Watkins

Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Education

4.9960 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2021

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Last week, you heard from Dr. Steven Eisenberg, who discovered the healing power of music through his work in oncology. In this week’s episode, we continue that theme with world-renowned recording artist and producer, Brandon Green, who is better known as Maejor. At the height of his career, working with top-tier artists like Mary J. Blige, T-Payne, Drake, and Justin Bieber, Maejor was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. This was a turning point for him. While he imagined that he would ev...

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I was producing, having great awesome success. I couldn't believe it. And then I started getting

0:08.8

pain just all over my body. I was feeling just bad. My arms were hurting like then went to my legs and

0:15.1

couldn't sleep and it was like weak so like I didn't exactly know what was happening

0:19.2

about. I was just such pain. I was taking a lot of pills and stuff just trying to get the pain away. I went to this doctor, they thought it was precise. I went to this doctor, they thought it was died.

0:28.0

So then one lady I went to and she took a blood panel for me and she called me, she called me and said,

0:33.7

she called me and said, you need to go to this place immediately.

0:35.8

I think you need to see an oncologist.

0:38.5

And I was just like, what?

0:39.8

I was really confused and I didn't know anything about I didn't even know what

0:43.2

oncologist was so then they did some more tests I mean and they came and said

0:48.2

yes you have a form of leukemia a rare form of leukemia.

0:52.6

And I was like, what the heck is that?

0:54.3

I never, you know, I heard that word,

0:56.3

but I didn't know what that was.

0:58.3

And so then I learned that it was like a blood cancer

1:01.0

that had something to do with my body body making too much white blood cells.

1:04.9

At the time it was actually like, it's just so shocking because I was doing really well in the music

1:10.0

and I just kind of had that vision like I was saying for oh I'm thinking I'm going to use

1:14.4

you know the finances from that to do these things I had this idea for these children's

1:18.8

centers I wanted to make that top music and that shifted everything because that changed to my timeline that made me look a little bit quicker at how I could have an impact and not necessarily thinking about something I could do when I'm an old man.

1:33.0

We're back with another episode of at the end of the tunnel.

1:42.0

I am your host Light Watkins.

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