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Melodies of My Life

The Arts | Available (Membership Required)

12535 W. Smokey Dr. Surprise, AZ 85378 United States
1010
4/14/2025 (one day)
10:00 AM-12:00 PM MST (Arizona) on Mon
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Melodies of My Life

The Arts | Available (Membership Required)

“The Melodies of My Life” are songs that I sang at different stages and at various places in my life: as a child,
during high school, when I was in a choir, at home with my family, at cultural events, when I was in love,
and singing at a wedding or a funeral. I have sung different genres of music; popular music, Soul Music – including
my favorite Motown ballads, and later in life I was acclimated to singing  opera and jazz. The songs in this presentation will be live, some will be audio and others video from yesteryear and recent times. For all of us, we have those songs in our hearts and our heads that are often easily retrieved and they return to us quickly, and sometimes they take us to times in our lives and memories of melancholy or happiness when we hear them again.

I will share with you some of the melodies of my life that are dear to me and some may be a treasure to you!
Here are some of the songs that will be part of this presentation:

“If I Had A Hammer”, “Fly Me To The Moon”, “Going To The Chapel”, “What a
Wonderful World”, “Se Voul Ballare”, “The Lord’s Prayer,” “Dedicated To You”,
“My Way”, two completely different versions of “I Love How You Love Me”
and one of my favorites –“The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”.

  • Terry Yahweh learned from his mother, grandmother, aunt and his community that service to your fellowman is imperative to our society. He is an honorably retired detective from the Phoenix Police Department after twenty-five years of public service. He served as a patrol officer, domestic violence detective and robbery investigations detective. He investigated armed robberies, carjackings, home invasions, extortions, kidnappings, bank robberies, felony shopliftings, human trafficking, a few homicide investigations and other criminal investigations. He was a board member with the Phoenix Police union and the longest serving president of the Arizona Black Law Enforcement Employees (ABLE) a police and community association.
    He was the chairman or lead for several police conferences, high school reunions, family reunions and his 46-year boxing team reunion and it was through these events that he harnessed his skills as an event planner. He has a B.A. degree in Spanish linguistics from Arizona State University, and was a certified Spanish speaker and instructor with the Phoenix Police Department. He is also a singer and has sung and numerous venues singing the National Anthem multiple times and has been trained to sing opera arias, popular and jazz music. He has done a number of renditions of the famous “I Have a Dream” speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at venues in Chandler and Phoenix. He is an avid gardener growing and eating the majority of vegetables he consumes.

    He has ventured into the personal motivation arena and in 2023 has produced the “All Things Are Possible For The One Who Believes Conference” which encourages citizens to eat better and wiser to live longer and healthier which allows them to live to manifest their dreams and destinies.
Terry Yahweh