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Kenneth Hooper

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Kenneth was a late bloomer to music. In 1986, when he was 21, he began to play bass guitar, but
it was in 1994 that he picked up his first flute, a penny whistle. After years of introspection, prayer and
several trips to the Amazon jungle, he attended a prayer meeting where he was gifted a Native American
Flute. As Kenneth delved deeply into the flute, his studies in psychology and spirituality ultimately guided
him in tapping into his creative process in a deeper way.
Perhaps his most important turning point occurred in 2014 when his life-partner, Kari’s, mother
was dying.“I was there the night she passed. I was able to play flutes for her at her bedside and I saw the
power of the flute. This helped me to chart my course for the kind of music I wanted to play.” Soon after,
Kenneth discovered the Sound, Voice and Music in the Healing Arts Program at CIIS, where he met and
became good friends with Gian Berselli who went on to start Astral Wolf Records (Berselli also produced
and co-composed the tracks on Directions). As fate would have it, following the certificate program,
Kenneth’s father passed away and Kenneth played flute at his bedside, easing his father’s transition at
the end of his life. He now considers these two events as “bookends” to his studies in the program.
Kenneth plays a variety of flutes (Native American, Pueblo Style, Chinese Xiao), Udu and Rav
drum. He currently lives with Kari in San Jose, California, and he holds sound healing events in the SF
Bay Area.

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