{"id":2155,"date":"2019-05-16T14:48:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T14:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meditationmag.com\/blog\/meeting-trevor-hall\/"},"modified":"2019-05-16T14:48:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T14:48:58","slug":"meeting-trevor-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meditationmag.com\/blog\/meeting-trevor-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Trevor Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It was a cold and dreary evening in Williamsburg, when we arrived at the Warsaw Theater to interview Trevor Hall. I was there as the social media manager for Meditation Magazine – to take photos, post instagram stories, and help coordinate the recording of the interview. But beneath the surface, my inner fangirl was brimming with anxiety and excitement. Trevor has been my musical hero, my role model, my spirit guide, since I was fourteen years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s a common bit of wisdom that goes something like \u201cnever meet your heroes, for they are sure to disappoint you.\u201d This was the fear that was gnawing at my diaphragm for weeks before the interview. But as soon as we stepped into the green room at the Warsaw, to the warm smiles and southern hospitality of Trevor\u2019s mom and dad (who had come to see the show); as soon as Trevor sauntered in from the hallway, cracking jokes with the humble vibe and easy smile of a long-beloved friend, I knew that everything would be OK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trevor\u2019s not just another egocentric musician, trying to get rich and look cool and be a rockstar. He hasn\u2019t followed the standard trajectory for a celebrity of his renown; his path has been fundamentally different. Trevor has risen, miraculously, through humility, rather than ego; through spirit, rather than ambition; through love, rather than aggression. I listened, enthralled, as he began to tell his story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leaving his childhood home of South Carolina at the tender age of sixteen, Trevor moved to California to pursue his passion for music. It was there, in the dorm room of his friend and musical partner Sam Marcus, that young Trevor first glimpsed a photo of his guru, Neem Karoli Baba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Seeing that photo, Trevor explained, was the moment that set in motion the journey that has brought him to where he is today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn India they say: \u2018A moment with the Beloved and the river changes its course,\u2019\u201d Trevor reminisced, as we sat looking out at the dwindling twilight of Brooklyn. \u201cThat [the moment of seeing the photo of Maharaj-ji] was kind of the moment where my river changed course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI fell in love with this Being, and I had no idea why. It was just an internal connection. And when you love someone, naturally, you want to love what they love and you want to know everything about them, you know?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo because he was from India, this Saint, I wanted to know about India. And because he chanted Ram, I wanted to know, what is this Ram? Everything he loved I wanted to love, and it was pretty much there that my path started; based on my love for this being.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was just a few years later that Trevor made his first pilgrimage to India and immersed himself in an unfamiliar culture, that somehow felt more familiar, more like home, than anywhere else in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Along his spiritual journey through India and Nepal, on his musical tours around the globe, Trevor has produced beautiful, deeply spiritual music that has reached millions of fans around the world. And that\u2019s the music he still plays today. It\u2019s the music he played on the stage after our interview, to a packed (and highly enthusiastic) hall at the Warsaw Theater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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