Ep. 56: Ronan Tynan - Can Music Silently Heal Us? - Irish Tenor
Ronan Tynan is an Irish tenor, physician and former Paralympic athlete who won 18 gold medals and set 14 world records.
Ronan gained international acclaim as a member of the Irish Tenors. You can read about his extraordinary life in his autobiography, Halfway Home My Life Till Now. Ronan is here to speak to us about the transcendent power of music and how music can help us live more fully in the moment.
Ronan Tynan knew what he wanted to do with his life after an epiphany he had when he was 7 years old. Both of his parents installed him in at an early age that nothing is impossible.
Later in life he realized that being a singer was as healing to the world as being a doctor. He realized that vulnerability allows people to open up blockages and that music tends to cleanse people in ways they might not even realize.
Not only can music heal divisions within a person it also has the power to transcend and heal divisions that separate us as a society. He explains, “No matter how much anger or contempt that people can have for each other, sometimes a piece of music can bring people and unify people in the most amazing way.”
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Songs Mentioned in the Podcast
Over the Rainbow - sung by Ronan Tynan
Passing Through - sung by Ronan Tynan
Book Mentioned in the Podcast
Halfway Home My Life Till Now by Ronan Tynan
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Show Notes
[02:22] I was born with a physical disability. It was called bilateral abduction. Basically it required that I would wear prosthetics most of my life. But I was fairly wild and at the age of 20 I was riding motorbike and had a very bad motorbike accident, which ultimately caused me to have a bilateral amputation. So from 20 on, I was what they would call a bilateral amputee below the knee.
[03:01] When the decision came to actually having both my limbs amputated -- that was a moment where it's a real wake up call in many ways.
[03:36] My father was totally accepting of the fact that this was the only outcome that would be the best for me.
[05:10] When I was about 6, 7 years of age at the back of our house, we had a thing called a haggard. It was like for cows and calves or be held when they were born. And I used to often be in awe of what nature did. And it often sit out there near a little rock out there at the back. And I remember one time I sat there and it was like an epiphany. I had this feeling that someday I will be a doctor, someday I will be a sportsman, and someday I will be a singer.
[05:46] As time went on, I realized that medicine has such an impact on people's lives that the greatest gift a man or woman has is the gift of giving, giving in many different ways to be able to gift. Healing is huge. But what I've grown to understand is the gift of music is the exact same. To be able to sing can give people that privacy of moment when they're listening to you, that they bring back beautiful memories or sad memories, but they're bringing back memories that they don't like to share with anyone. And that's the beauty about this stuff. It's a private moment. It's a nostalgic moment.
[06:45] But that song, that moment gives them permission to rekindle the fondness and the love and allow them grief and allow them to cry. You know, because sometimes it's a catharsis. That's what music is. It's a catharsis.
[07:17] Vulnerability in the person is a good thing because it gives you a freedom that allows you to suddenly open up that channel that you had blocked. And sometimes music can do that unbeknownst to yourself.
[11:32] The power that music has in touching the soul is so great and so amazing from many levels, but from a spiritual level. Music gives more to people because it allows them the freedom to let the music do a healing for themselves.
[13:46] Music transcended everything. It transcended the disability. It transcended their challenge because at that moment we all integrated, for one thing, for them. They in turn used that moment of song that they felt completely free.
[14:22] Noone knew that the thought the kids that were singing at that moment were challenged because they had poured their soul into it.
[14:31] And when you listened, you realize we're all in this together. We've all come together and we've become one nucleus. That's something that I feel is amazing. That's when you feel music transcends every barrier.
[15:53] Music has the power to heal divisions that separate us.
[16:18] No matter how much anger or contempt that people can have for each other, sometimes a piece of music can bring people and unify people in the most amazing way.
[16:49] In the finality of life. What do we do? We sing. We sing and praise.
[18:27] Music has that ability to get you to a point where you are at one. You finally understood that the person you loved is still there for you in spirit.
[24:01] Music unifies. It unifies relationships. It crosses every boundary. It brings people together and makes people happy. It gives sadness. But in a good way. In a good way it cleanses your soul.
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“It was like an epiphany. I had this feeling that someday I will be a doctor, someday I will be a sportsman, and someday I will be a singer.” - Ronan Tynan
“Music has the power to heal divisions that separate us.” - Ronan Tynan
“No matter how much anger or contempt that people can have for each other, sometimes a piece of music can bring people and unify people in the most amazing way.” - Ronan Tynan
“Music has that ability to get you to a point where you are at one. You finally understood that the person you loved is still there for you in spirit.” - Ronan Tynan
“Music unifies. It unifies relationships. It crosses every boundary. It brings people together and makes people happy. It gives sadness. But in a good way. It cleanses your soul.” - Ronan Tynan
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