Malachi to meet Pope

Moses hopes for meeting with Pope and worldwide tour

Wednesday, May 27, 2015By Alana Cook, Citizen.Editor.Eureka@gmail.com

Local musician, entrepreneur and Eureka Springs School Board member The Artist One, or Moses as his friends call him, just released his third album from his “Exodus” trilogy and is teaming up with a young Italian singer and physicist, Dr. Veronica Vitale, in hopes that she can arrange a meeting with the Pope so he can promote a message of peace worldwide.

If successful, the man with long, curly, salt-and-pepper hair and magnetic smile plans to bring his rock-opera show that chronicles the Bible from Genesis to Exodus to the masses and feed the hungry while bringing people closer to God through his music.

If he gets funding, Moses plans to begin the tour, equipped with holograms that bring Bible characters to life, in Rome and then move on to Jerusalem, Cairo and Moscow.

And for a man who teamed up with Henry Hill to launch Goodfellas’ coffee, has been featured in Forbes for his business endeavors, and has rubbed elbows with rock legends and world leaders, there are no limits.

“I would like to do a show with holograms somewhere between Israel and Palestine because I think all religions can relate to the message,” Moses said. “Nothing like this has ever been done before.”

Rock legend Boyd Grafmyre, who launched the careers of Jimi Hendrix and Janice Joplin, agrees.

“Things are changing where there truly is a religious market. His concept is totally new and I believe it will work. I want to see him get to Italy. The music he’s doing is like a musical but also like what arena rock used to be,” Grafmyre said. ” ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ was successful but it took some doing. Moses is on the right track.”

Grafmyre is acting as Moses’ music and production adviser and said the concept will work because people are hungry for a “message of hope.”

“What’s interesting is that all of the megachurches have very sophisticated audiences and there’s a coming together of all faiths. People have to believe in something,” Grafmyre said. “They are tired of wars and chaos. Things are going to get better because people are waking up so the meeting with the Pope is a good thing.”

Vitale, who just got back from an early-May meeting with the Pope and the Vatican about a “beautiful worldwide project,” said she hopes to lend her operatic vocals to some of Moses’ shows.

“I’m working with the most famous Italian piano player and composer, Stelvio Cipriani, and the Vatican. I’m not allowed to say too much about the project but I’ll do whatever I can to support Moses,” she said. “I’m the type of person who builds bridges, not walls.”

Though the two lived in Seattle a few years ago at the same time, they never crossed paths in person. In what Vitale calls a synchronistic chain of God-inspired moments, the two were introduced online by mutual friend Sir Johan Karlsen III.

“A synchronicity happens when a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness, for some high reason we do not know why. We are all tools in God’s hands,” Vitale said.

Moses uses inspiration to compose his lyrics and sound, without the aid of pen and paper. His vocals reflect a sound of a loving God who is sometimes frustrated by a people who keep imprisoning themselves.

Both Grafmyre and Vitale say that Moses’ genre of music is complicated because it melds rock and symphonic orchestra sound with deep lyrics.

“It would be easier to compose a catchy song, which people will remember for two weeks and then he would be rich,” Vitale said. “But Moses wants to leave something more important to this world, especially during such a complex period for humanity. We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill and Moses’ idea is that you cannot say to the sun, ‘More sun,’ and it just moves. You have to ride the waves life gives you and endure the pain and overcome the difficulties while making the best of it.”

Moses has a business plan and has launched an Indiegogo campaign to help get him and his team to Rome and get the first leg of the tour started. For more information or to donate, visit https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/all-r… or visit www.theartistone.com to hear his latest.

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