The Tribune

By FARAH
Tribune Features Writer

jgibson@tribunemedia.net

SINGING for a cause brings Bahamian musician Noshi Curry great pleasure. Therefore, the young New York-based performer, composer and director has banded together with several other artists for a project to promote peace.

Noshi, a Lyford Cay Harry Moore Arts Scholar, is a co-producer and performer for the Sing for Peace Project 2014 – a collaborative effort between artists to raise awareness and funding for people and places in need around the world. According to the Sing For Peace’s website, the project originally began as Sing for Japan, which had the goal of bringing support funding to the victims of the destructive earthquake and subsequent tsunami that debilitated Japan on March 11, 2011.

“For the effort musicians, songwriters, engineers and artists from all over the world came together to volunteer their time to create what became 2012’s release of ‘Sing for Japan Vol. 1’. The sales which were sent directly to the affected areas of Japan,” the website states.
Noshi has been galvanising support for the Sing For Peace Volume 3 project both locally and internationally.

“Jayvon Rymer and I have our first (publicised) collaborated track, ‘Labour of the Heart’, also featured on the SFP. SFP is a charity CD pulled together by volunteers that has been raising funds for and bringing awareness of issues around the world since 2011. Anybody can participate as a performing artist, a songwriter, a marketing expert, etc. It’s a yearly release, and we’re always looking for help,” Noshi said on his Facebook page.

The proceeds from this year’s Sing for Peace Project will go toward the US Red Cross.

Before moving to New York, Noshi lived in Boston, where he studied and graduated from the Berklee College of Music with a dual Bachelor of Music in Contemporary Writing and Production, and Composition and Minor Conducting. He now plays his role as performer, composer and producer.

Pursuing music professionally was always a passion for the Bahamian artist, and his desire to touch others through the arts started when he was a child. In fact, Noshi’s first musical performance at the age of five was a piece by Mozart.

“I have been interested in music my entire life. There is a very specific moment when I was four years old that my parents went into the living room and discovered me playing a fully accompanied version of ‘Silent Night’ on my father’s very old Casio keyboard. Right after the holidays they decided to enrol me in a private music school three times a week where I studied and practiced classical music theory and piano performance,” he said.

For the future, Noshi said he intends to open an artist management agency supporting multi-national expansion and exposure of culture and entertainment while directly supporting the growth of the Bahamian entertainment industry.

“While in New York, I have been focusing on opportunities that exposed me to the music business in the US so that I could have some solid ground to stand on when it is my turn to take the lead,” he said.