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And my avoidance of "enlightenment".

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I used to hate religious music. In my early 20s, the Bahá’ís of Portugal politely asked if I’d consider composing some songs for them. At the time, I had just graduated from classical music school in Porto and was studying film scoring at Berklee College of Music in Boston. I was drowning in elitism, convinced that writing religious music would be the u…

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