Just about every day of our lives we hear music without even noticing it much…background music. It’s in the supermarket aisles, under the whir of the dentist drill, in the elevator that takes us to our office, in the restaurant where we are having dinner. It is meant to lull, mask and motivate us to spend money. Now if by chance we hear one of David Archuleta’s songs in the background a little light goes on inside of us. We can’t stop smiling and we may even loudly blurt out “It’s David Archuleta!”. I personally scared several people shopping for supplies in Staples when “Crush” came over the loudspeaker.

Mozart, the Beatles , the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. What do they have in common with David Archuleta? Their music has the ability to pierce even our routine activities and make us feel happy to be alive. We feel the music enter our entire being.

There is a theory that when we were a baby in our mother’s womb we were influenced by the heartbeats of our mother. This is perhaps the way we first experience sounds that sooth and calm us. As we grow up we are exposed to many different types of music that generate different emotional responses. We may hide our eyes when we hear spooky music in a darken movie theater or feel a rush of pure joy hearing a beautiful Christmas Carol. We learned nursery rhymes and played musical chairs. Some of us can still remember advertising jingles we heard on TV when we were very young. Others may remember the songs on Sesame Street or the piano melody on a Charlie Brown holiday special.

As we mature we open ourselves to different types of music. David Archuleta touched on this when he was just starting his American Idol journey: “Something that surprises a lot of people is usually the music I listen to just because it’s so diverse and it would be like Hispanic music from my mom, you know I grew up listening to Hispanic music on my mom’s side and then my dad listened to Jazz music and so I grew up with that and I just love Gospel music and you know, mostly I listen to Pop, and like Pop-Rock, but soulful music ‘cuz it’s just one of my favorites as well.”

Music punctuates the most ordinary and extraordinary moments of our lives. Our happiest and saddest days may be wrapped in music…whether it be the care we take when choosing music for our wedding or the tears we shed when hearing a familiar hymn at a beloved family member’s funeral. Think a moment..can you remember the sound of a merry go round tune as you decided which magical horse you would ride? Or the happy jingle of the ice cream truck as you ran down the street in hot pursuit?

Music has always been around us but David has opened our hearts and our memories to the melodies and songs that have been the soundtracks of our life. And it is not just a backward glance but a new excitement of music we have yet to hear. Soon we will have that Christmas CD in our hot little hands! Brand new music from David and a promise that it is from his heart.

Plato wrote a statement that rings true over 2,400 years later:
“Music…gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination…and life to everything.”

Thank you David for awakening music in our very souls.

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