Holy Sounds Foundation
The Holy Sounds Foundation is an international program of cultural, educational and charitable activities that will consistently expand over time. Envisioned as an on-going "gift of music" by founders Mrs. Alfiya Askar Abulkhair and Mr. Timur Kuanyshev.
The Holy Sounds Foundation has been established as a non-profit organization to foster sacred, thoughtful, and inspiring music as a universal language that communicates, empowers, heals and unites people while celebrating their diversity.
Announced in February 2002, with international headquarters in Seville, Spain, where all three cultures have historically flourished in harmony, the Holy Sounds Foundation will pursue a worldwide agenda of music education, preservation and performance.
IMAGINE
A global endeavour destined to inspire a new spirit of human harmony and understanding, through the language that knows no national boundaries - the language of MUSIC.
A charitable foundation dedicated to using traditional and devotional music to help promote harmonious international relations for future generations.
Worldwide, world-class musical celebrations, honouring the diverse musical legacy of three great spiritual traditions, embracing 3,000 years of music, performed by the world's greatest traditional and popular artists, bringing thousands of people together in person, and hundreds of millions more through television, radio and recordings.
In an age when people are torn apart by differences, and humanity is troubled by many problems with no easy solutions.
Holy Sounds, Together in Harmony
is a simple idea whose time has come.
In the words of the Mrs. Alfiya Askar Abulkhair
"We have a vision. A vision of Christians, Muslims and Jews...
…coming together in song. A vision of men, women and children gathering together in Jerusalem. Imagine them celebrating their common humanity in a harmony of songs, inspired by a greater being. Imagine them singing of love and yearning without the burden of earthly conflict. Imagine them speaking to, and embracing each other through music. For music is the most ethereal of all the arts. It is a language that knows no national bounds. It speaks from the soul to the soul. It has the power to unite people in appreciation of its beauty and desire. It is the ultimate expression of joy."
HOLY SOUNDS
The worldwide Holy Sounds Foundation supports the work of deserving musical artists and organizations who inspire human harmony and understanding, by preserving and promoting inspirational music in unique ways.
Three documentary films - "In Search of Holy Sounds" - will trace the journeys of the Muslim, Christian, and Jewish musical roots and traditions from their original common source to their current global influence. These films will be distributed worldwide via television, as well as through educational and home video distribution.
Various Holy Sounds international music concerts will be performed around the world, to celebrate the human spirit by bringing together the world's largest and most diverse selection of music experts, creators and performers, along with thousands of guests and visitors from around the world.