Subject: RE: Obit: Jim Seals (Seals & Crofts) (1941-2022)
From:
keberoxu
Date: 11 Jul 22 - 03:53 PM
I did not have this information when I opened this obit thread.
It is from a post to a Kickstarter effort that was made
to record some Baha'i music.
The post is dated 2019, entered by composer Tom Price. Quote:
. . . a key participant, and composer of three of the songs, legendary Baha'i musician Jimmy Seals, suffered a massive stroke which nearly killed him at the age of 77, and left him without speech for nearly a year, rendering him permanently deaf in one ear. Not only was it essential to have him in the studio for all three of his compositions, but we particularly wanted him on the compact disc [recording] for obvious reasons. In the early 1980's, Ruhiyyih Khanum [the widow of the second and final Guardian of the Baha'i Cause] wrote a poem about the Persian martyrs, and asked Jimmy to set it to music and to record it. He had not done [anything like] this in nearly 40 years, and asked if together we could compose the music and include it in this project. Two years ago, I traveled to Nashville to compose the music with him, and although he had not sung for nearly a decade, he agreed to sing the solo on this very special rendition of Ruhiyyih Khanum's poem. Soon thereafter he suffered [another] stroke, and for some time we contemplated using another soloist, but finally three months ago we were able to record him in Nashville, in spite of his difficulty in hearing and of his weakness of voice.
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