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Meet Robin Miller of Robin Miller music in Sedona

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Today we’d like to introduce you to Robin Miller.

So, before we jump into specific questions, why don’t you give us some details about you and your story.
When I picked up my first guitar at age 7, I never imagined that my musical career would take me all the way from being a rock guitarist to channeling music from the heavens.

Born and raised in Detroit – the quintessential city of Rock and Rollers – it all started one day after I watched Elvis perform on the Ed Sullivan show on our old black and white TV. I passed a pawnshop shortly after, saw a broken old guitar in the window, and begged my dad to get it for me.

After a great deal of coaxing and pleading, he gave in, fixed the instrument, and I began my musical career. I played endlessly, teaching myself the chords, using an old butter knife because my fingers weren’t big enough to reach them. It was a labor of love and a true passion. While others my age were out playing sports, I was busy teaching myself to play music.

Seven years later, at age 14, I started my first rock band with a group of friends and composed my first CD at the age of 18. “Travis” as we were called, became a local favorite, and you can still find our songs on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6GalYqOZj4.

Still pursuing my rock and roll dreams, I moved across the country to California, where I played in smoky bars night after night, hoping for a big break. I worked with various artists for labels such as A&M, MCA, and RCA, but fame and fortune seemed to elude me.

Things began to change in 1986 after a friend brought me to a “channeling session” in a beautiful home near Beverly Hills. Seated in a circle, I didn’t know what to expect. The woman we had come to see, Iris Belhayes, was apparently a famous channel. She went into a deep trance and brought through a being called Quan Yin – goddess of compassion. One by one, this being addressed by the group. I still didn’t know what to think until she turned her head, with closed eyes, to me and said, “I see the musician is here!” That got my attention! She proceeded to tell me that soon I’d be playing an entirely different type of music that would help millions.

I still didn’t know what to think, but within a year, a friend gave me an electronic keyboard, and as I sat down to play it, without any prior training, beautiful melodies emerged. I was working with a friend who had a small studio at the time. He went downstairs to eat dinner and left the equipment on. I stayed behind and allowed the heavenly music to flow through me. By the time he returned, I had recorded my first CD, Magical Spheres. I wasn’t sure what was going on, but I liked the feeling of the heavenly music flowing through me.

My rock and roll dreams still proved to be elusive. One night, after wondering what it was all about, I awakened and felt a stream of thoughts pouring through me. I started writing as pages and pages of material flowed through my mind and onto the paper. The information was coming from a being who identified himself as Jonathan – a spiritual guide, who came to share his wisdom on life, love, and everything in between. These writings later became my two books: Talks with Jonathan and The Path of Love. That same year I was inspired to move to Sedona, AZ.

Numerous other CDs followed. In 1993, I received the prestigious Arizona Entertainment Award for New Age Artist of the Year. In 1995, I performed on the NBC nationally syndicated talk show THE OTHER SIDE. Performances have included shows with celebrities such as medium and healer James Van Praagh, who has appeared on LARRY KING LIVE, OPRAH, UNSOLVED MYSTERIES, etc. Van Praagh incorporates my music on several of his meditation tapes. I also appeared with world-renowned psychic Sylvia Browne, touring with her for two years. Sylvia said that my “music comes directly from the angels.”

My music now receives airplay on cable radio and FM stations across the USA and Canada, and musical streaming through DMX and MUZAK satellite channels. I’ve recorded 20 CDs, featuring keyboards, guitar, mandolin, and a variety of other instruments. Dannion Brinkley, the famous near-death survivor, and author of Saved by the Light, once said my music was the “closest thing to what he heard in heaven.”

When I sit to play my music, I just let go and allow the music to play me. I listen to the melodies that magically flow through me, and then I play them as I hear them flowing with the feelings that the chords and movements create within me. The music speaks to my soul and heart, and it is alive, and it breathes as I breathe it in and then out again, as the song dictates. I believe that within all of us, music flows as Spirit and, as we live, we create our own melodies, our very own “song of our lives.” Shall we say that represents the very essence of our life with all its joys and sorrows, laughter and pain, etc. As we live, we create that melody, and one day, we will hear it played within our souls. I love playing music as much, as much as I love breathing, for in reality, to me, it is one and the same.

People say they don’t just hear my music. They feel it. It is used by healers, massage therapists, and countless individuals who want to bring the heavenly frequencies of peace, love, and healing into their homes. I’ve even been told that it calms and soothes animals, facilitates healing, and helps those in transition.

There have been countless times where my music has touched hearts – including mine – in a way that I never could have dreamed. Children have seen angels standing behind me while I was playing. A woman caught a picture of a huge golden orb hovering over my keyboard while I played a song that I secretly wished my deceased mother had been around to hear.

Once, while playing in a restaurant in Sedona, a woman and her young boy walked in, sat down, and instantly, the music changed. I didn’t consciously change what I was playing; the music coming through me simply became different. The little boy started bawling. His mother frantically tried to calm him, and finally took him outside. During a break, she came up to me. “Who are you?” She asked. “I’m just a musician,” I replied. “Why?” “No, you don’t understand,” she went on. “My husband died a year ago. My son loved him. He hasn’t spoken since. He hasn’t grieved. He heard your music and now he’s in the car bawling his eyes out and crying for his father.” I’ll never understand exactly what happened, but something beautiful and heavenly came through to heal that little boy’s heart and release all those trapped emotions. Time and again, when I was playing in public, people would stop, stare, and cry. They told me they felt like they’d come home.

Perhaps the most amazing miracle that came through my music occurred when I ended up playing a 60-second spot on a syndicated TV show, “The Other Side.” I got a call weeks later from a woman who told me that she had recently lost her husband and baby girl in a tragic car accident. Her grief was so deep she saw no reason to live. She was in the kitchen, with pills spread out all over the counter, preparing to commit suicide when she heard strains of beautiful music coming from her TV. She walked into the living room, saw me playing for that brief minute, and she got all choked up as she told me over the phone, “I felt my baby daughter’s arms wrapped around my neck and my husband at my side. They told me not to do it, not to take my life, that there was a life ahead for me and that they were fine. They told me they could see me, and they were close to me. I dropped to the floor in tears and knew from that day on that I wanted to live. Your music did that,” she continued. We were both in tears. I can’t take credit for the miracle. I just open up and allow the healing energies that come through my music to do the work they’re intended to do.

I would love for my music to live on in the hearts and minds of those whose lives have been touched by it. I would love to leave this life knowing and believing that through my life and my music, this world has been changed, helped, uplifted in some small way. I would love to look back and know that my life was not in vain and that people were helped to feel more love, more joy within them through experiencing the melodies that flowed through me to them, to their hearts and souls.

If you’re drawn to it, all my music is available via my website: https://www.robinmillermusic.com.

Great, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall, and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
No. Being a musician is not a career for the faint of heart! It involves long hours, late nights, hard labor, and often working for little to make others a lot. You are often ushered in through the back door of a venue, treated like a hired hand, and while it looks glamorous to play on stage, that is the easiest part of any gig. For twelve years, day in and day out, I set up and tore down over 100 pounds of equipment after carrying it from the parking lot to the spot where I played outside in Sedona and then, in a heartbeat, when the setting was reconfigured for environmental reasons, I was dismissed. There was no longer a place to play.

Musicians face a new challenge in the electronic age as well. Due to the availability of music online, many of us are making less than ever before. Whereas in the past, our income came from CD sales, now the pirating of music is so common that we often see only pennies for our work. Well-meaning individuals don’t realize that when they share or copy music for free, they’re robbing the musician of their livelihood. As a result, we work more gigs, and longer hours to feed our families and maintain our homes so we can keep touching the hearts of those we serve.

That said, music is my labor of love. I make music for the joy and love of the music itself that lives in me. I make music because I must, even as I must eat or sleep. It is so entirely a part of me that, at times, I feel like I am the music and that I live just to live “IT”! I need music to be to live, just as I need food or water. So whether the road is easy or not, I’ll keep doing it.

What else should we know?
Most people are surprised to know I neither read nor write music. I never prepare before I record my CDs. I go into the studio and allow them to flow through me. I often have to listen to them again to learn them for the sake of performances! The music just flows to and through me.

I would love to have people just let go of their worries and problems and allow the music to flow into their souls to help them realize that they are loved and held safely in the hands of Spirit. I would love people to let the melodies take them to a kinder, more loving place, even if just for a moment while the music plays.

People need to find the time to relax in their busy lives, and healing music can help them get out of their heads and into their hearts. It can lead them into their soul space where they find that life is more about finding the love within them and less about running here and there trying to find happiness outside themselves.

Currently, I play channeled keyboards at various spiritual seminars and private events, and rock guitar at diverse venues throughout Northern, Arizona. New melodies are always floating around my head, and I never know when I’ll record my next CD.

I am available for events large and small, including public and private house concerts, festivals, large venues, collaborating on film soundtracks, special projects, and more. If you need music or a musician, I’m here, and I’m always “plugged in!”

All my music is available via my website: https://www.robinmillermusic.com.

What’s your outlook for the industry in our city?
I have played my music all over this country while touring, and Phoenix seems like a good place to start out as a musician, as are many of the larger cities. As a musician or a creative person, no matter where you live, you have to create your own career and work hard to get yourself out in public in order to make a living. I once believed that one had to live in New York or Los Angeles to make it in the music industry, but now with online opportunities, everything has changed.

There are many wonderful venues in Arizona, both in Phoenix, and in the smaller towns. If one was starting out, I’d recommend researching restaurants, clubs, festivals, and other venues that offer live entertainment. Play whenever and wherever you can find a gig, because you have to allow people to find you, and you have to nurture your connection with your audience in order to grow. Share your music online as well, so your fans know where to find you.

While Phoenix and many large cities support the arts, I would always love to see more venues that offer live entertainment. In our hectic, over-stressed society, I believe people need as many environments as possible in which they can allow music to uplift and soothe their spirits, and remind them of the more beautiful aspects of life.

Pricing:

  • 1 hour CD $20.00
  • Single CD Download $9.99
  • Single Song CD (Regular song) $0.99
  • Single Song Download (15 min meditation) $2.99
  • Past Life Regression Hypnosis – In Person Only, In Sedona $225.00

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Image Credit:
Alba Elena Photography
Bob Coates Photography
Ann Albers

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