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Lotus: a favorite yoga pose. As an avid
yoga practitioner, Smith often begins each
day before dawn on his mat. He often plays,
practices, and performs barefoot, too.
“ For me, music is everything—it has taken me
wherever I’ve been and leads me wherever I should go. “
Smith also performs with Gateways Music Herb City Trumpets, a music education and
Festival, a collaborative initiative with Eastman mentorship program for Black teenagers
that connects and supports classical musicians and boys. The group operates through
of African descent. Committed to bridging ROCmusic, a city-run initiative designed to give
racial divide through music, in 2020 he started underrepresented youth music instruction.
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