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Eddie Watkins Jr. is on a roll. He’s been on one ever since he threw out all his old ideas regarding himself, his talent, and his reason for living. Given where he’d been, it wasn’t such a bad idea. “Everything that’s happening now is the result of a decision I made to turn my life, and my career and my talent, over to this ministry.” That, in his own words, is how it is that Watkins has ended up music manager and choir director at the Center for Spiritual Living, Seattle, as well as music director for the Centers for Spiritual Living’s annual Asilomar conference this summer—a walking, talking, living, breathing laboratory for a divine experiment in music. It was not always thus. By 2005, Watkins was fried to a crisp managing a band he’d founded more than a dozen years earlier. He’d moved to Las Vegas seeking a steady gig, a regular paycheck, and the benefits that go with a conventional job, but found himself commuting to Southern California for work with his Go Big Daddy Band. A steady diet of weddings and corporate parties, and the soggy, prefab “bandwiches” fed to the musicians who play such events while the guests eat lobster and steak, had him wondering: What now? What’s next? |
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