Twenty-five years of music for peace.
Songs written with poets in more than twenty countries. Made in Hawaiʻi, given to the world.
I am a singer and musician who has given his work to the cause of peace through music. Music can turn conflict into something else. It can grow nonviolence, awaken creativity, and open the way to empathy.
No wall stands against music. It reaches past every barrier we build, and it remains one of the finest ways we have to give voice to that fierce and living love for existence that each of us carries inside.
Where the music has travelled
United Nations
“Plant More Trees” was made for UNEP’s Billion Tree Campaign, and carried to a 4,000-tree planting with French schoolchildren on the first day of spring, 2008.
United Kingdom
“Peace from East” scored Making the Difference, an anti-bullying film for the Department for Education and Skills, still used in British schools.
United States
Original music for Little Boy: The Peace Play, marking sixty years since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, staged in Ohio with the Dayton International Peace Museum.
India
Circle of Peace and “Peace from East” were both recognised at the World Peace Film and Music Festival in Lucknow, before delegates from sixty countries.
Romania
“May Peace Prevail on Earth” began as a poem posted from Sighetu Marmației and has played on Radio Transilvania since May 2008.
Forty-four countries
World Prayer for Peace gathered 250 artists in a single recording, assembled entirely by email.
What poets and peace workers have said
He manages to touch the parts many other musicians cannot reach. An unassuming and giving man. A man of peace and artist of peace; his music are pieces of art.
Andy Hickson — Actionwork Films, United Kingdom
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Poets
Send the words
Most of these songs began when a poet posted a poem to a composer they had never met. If you have written for peace, send it.
Festivals & schools
Bookings and licensing
Music for peace gatherings, classrooms, film, theatre and dance, from a catalogue built over twenty-five years.
Artists
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World Prayer for Peace has gathered hundreds of voices across more than forty countries, one email at a time.
A note on independence. My mission of peace through music is nonpolitical and nonreligious, and rests on the basic principles of humanity and friendship. Publishing a link on this website does not mean that I am part of any group, or that I agree — completely or partially — with the ideology, views or beliefs of any person or organization. All links and names are published in good faith, to help the community spread messages of peace and love in a neutral way.
Twenty-five years of music for peace.
Songs written with poets in more than twenty countries. Made in Hawaiʻi, given to the world.
I am a singer and musician who has given his work to the cause of peace through music. Music can turn conflict into something else. It can grow nonviolence, awaken creativity, and open the way to empathy.
No wall stands against music. It reaches past every barrier we build, and it remains one of the finest ways we have to give voice to that fierce and living love for existence that each of us carries inside.
Where the music has travelled
What poets and peace workers have said
Andy Hickson — Actionwork Films, United Kingdom
Work with me
Poets
Send the words
Most of these songs began when a poet posted a poem to a composer they had never met. If you have written for peace, send it.
Festivals & schools
Bookings and licensing
Music for peace gatherings, classrooms, film, theatre and dance, from a catalogue built over twenty-five years.
Artists
Join the next recording
World Prayer for Peace has gathered hundreds of voices across more than forty countries, one email at a time.
A note on independence. My mission of peace through music is nonpolitical and nonreligious, and rests on the basic principles of humanity and friendship. Publishing a link on this website does not mean that I am part of any group, or that I agree — completely or partially — with the ideology, views or beliefs of any person or organization. All links and names are published in good faith, to help the community spread messages of peace and love in a neutral way.
I am a singer and musician who has given his work to the cause of peace through music — twenty-five years of it now. Music can turn conflict into something else. It can grow nonviolence, awaken creativity, and open the way to empathy. My hope is to keep creating alongside artists from every corner of the earth, in the name of love and peace.
No wall stands against music. It reaches past every barrier we build, and it remains one of the finest ways we have to give voice to that fierce and living love for existence that each of us carries inside.
That same feeling is the root of everything: my love for my family, for the people of this world and everyone in it — no distinction drawn from gender, age, class, nationality, or cultural, religious or spiritual background. The natural world enters the music too. I write out of respect for the stone and the soil, for growing things, for the flowers and the animals who share this planet with us.
Belonging to both East and West has taught me something simple: we ordinary people, everywhere, want the same peace. Twenty-five years of working with friends around the world has only confirmed it.
My mission is to offer whatever musical gift I have to humanity — to reach toward those who carry the weight of injustice, and to place hope and strength in their hands. Music speaks a language every person already understands. I want to use it to tell the beauty of what we are, and to build a peace that is more than the absence of war.
Hawaiʻi has been my home for twenty years. I look forward to building a better world with you — through music, and through love for life and for people.
With love, music and peace from Hawaiʻi
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M. I. Behleem is an audio producer, composer, songwriter, singer, computer musician, sound engineer, and director and producer of music video. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Laws, and has lived and worked in Hawaiʻi for twenty years.
M. I. Behleem is an audio producer, composer, songwriter, singer, computer musician, sound engineer, and director and producer of music video. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Laws, and has lived and worked in Hawaiʻi for twenty years.
