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May is Mental Health Awareness Month, designated each year as a period to spread awareness and education about the importance of mental health care in the U.S. The month has taken on added importance during the ongoing pandemic, during which millions of musicians and other music industry workers have been cut off from their livelihoods during the widespread shutdown of live events.
While mental health care is critically important for music workers even in a normal year, COVID-19 has had profound effects on the mental well-being of those most impacted. According to the 2020 Wellness in Music Survey, a report published by the Recording Academy’s charitable arm MusiCares, 26% of those surveyed reported moderate to severe levels of depression last year, while 53% said they were unable to receive mental health counseling due to lack of funds.
Musician Nana Kottens loses all Facebook accounts LISTEN
MAY 6, 2021
US-based Ghanaian Musician Nana Kottens is seeking answers from Facebook after realizing that all his music tunes accounts have been permanently deleted.
Sound Lion Records (SLR) and Nana Kottens Music accounts are owned by a respected American Public Health Professional/ Musician, Mr. Nana Kottens who uses the Facebook platform to sensitize the world against social vices such as the Opioid syndrome through music.
Nana Kottens’ musical works which are geared towards social and community development in America and the world in general have been acknowledged by several American institutions including Liberty University, Music Business Association, an Association of which SLR is a member and Addiction Recovery Organizations and Kpanlogo Yede Ry, Finland.
Joshua Schultz, a Nashville-based tour lighting designer who was already in recovery from a painkiller addiction at the time the pandemic began, shares his struggles with mental health.
When COVID-19 took hold, financial support unsurprisingly topped the list of priorities for most nonprofits who provide direct assistance to people in the live music industry. But, as weeks off of the road turned into months and now over a year, mental health remains a major concern for those whose stages have sat blank and silent for so long. I was on the way up again, and this couldn t have come at a worse time, says Joshua Schultz, a Nashville-based tour lighting designer who was already in recovery from a painkiller addiction at the time the pandemic hit full tilt. My phone hasn t rung for a job in a year. I don t see the end. I know that it s coming. I just don t know when.