Music by Pianist Regenia Carpenter-Edmond MD
ARTIST
Regenia Carpenter-Edmond MD is a Harvard-trained emergency medicine physician and pianist whose music reflects her understanding of the dance between science and the arts in healing and in sustaining those who would be healers. Enjoy this uplifting music.
TheBrokenPianoSings.
* NEW SINGLE *
*NO WEAPON*
*OUT NOW*
All Major Music Platforms
*EP*
*Out Now*
*WADE IN THE WATER*
BIO
Regenia Carpenter-Edmond MD is a Harvard-trained emergency medicine physician and pianist who founded TheBrokenPianoSings because she understands that Music is Medicine.
The inspiration for TheBrokenPianoSings is her late mother, who grew up in poverty in a two-room house in Mississippi in the segregated Jim Crow south. Her mother ran from overseers to keep from being raped on the way to school -when she could go to school -and didn't have to pick cotton. Her mother moved north as a part of the great migration and grew up in poverty in the projects of Michigan... She knew about broken things.
One day while her mother was driving to one of her multiple jobs she took on to support her family, she spotted a broken piano on the side of the road. She had been thinking about getting a piano for her daughter after she observed her hear a song the choir sang then proceed to play it back on the church's old piano.
Regenia's mother knew that she couldn't afford a new piano. As she approached the house to speak to the owner regarding the broken piano on the side of the road, the owner of the broken piano looked at her with contempt and laughed. He told her she could have the piano if she could get someone to come get it. A man who hauled trash came and put it in his truck with the trash and brought it to her house. Something inside Regenia's mother that sustained her through periods of pain, terror and poverty, and hardship caused her to imagine the power of broken pianos to change lives— her daughter's life.
After Regenia graduated from Harvard Medical School, her life work has been in emergency medicine, where she has seen life and death —broken things— in the most intimate way. The embrace of music and science has uplifted her and her patients. .. Regenia thanks her mother for her sacrifice and her faith that . . . TheBrokenPianoSings.