Music

Three Expressions of Peace Through Music.

Peace Songs - Forty songs written with poets from more than twenty countries.
Ambient Music Albums - Eleven albums of ambient music created for peace and reflection.
World Peace Prayers - Twelve prayers for world peace created at StarLight Harmony Music Studio in Hawaii between 2005 and 2016.

40Peace songs

11Albums

4Peace music videos

12Peace Prayer editions

Behleem singing in a Hawaii forest — “MUSIC FOR GLOBAL PEACE.”

Peace Songs

Forty songs, twenty countries.

The words came from Romania, India, Argentina, Belgium, Switzerland, Singapore, Austria, Cambodia, Iran, Norway, Japan and the United States. I set them to music. Below is the record, with every poet named.

Circle of Peace

10 songs · Twelve peace songs, released for World Peace Day, 21 September 2006. Recognized as a commendable effort by a seven-member international jury at the 2nd World Peace Film and Music Festival, Lucknow.

Circle of Peace Behleem
Peace from East Behleem
May Peace Prevail on Earth Tatomir Ion-MariusRomania
Plant More Trees Ashok ChakravarthyIndia
I Dream of a World with Peace Maria AzconaArgentina
Salam Liza LeylaBelgium / Spain
Nenufar Light Liza LeylaBelgium / Spain
Humanitarian Art Lida SherafatmandIran / France
Oasis of Love Rais Neza BonezaNorway
Say Yes to Peace Behleem

Universal Peace Ambassadors Peace Music Album

6 songs

The World is at Peace Christophe BarbeySwitzerland
The World Needs Peace Ashok ChakravarthyIndia
Let Us Help Each Other J. Michele Bodine & BehleemUSA
You Whose Name is So Beautiful Johanne Hauber-BiethFrance
Peace for All J. Michele BodineHawaii, USA
Light of Peace Marie CammalCambodia

T:AP Peace Music Album 2004

5 songs · Made with the Transcend: Art and Peace network.

Great Hopes Dr. Daisaku IkedaJapan
I am Walking Down the Road Again Jonas AdenAustria
We Are All United Fifteen poetsEleven countries
All Thoughts at Peace Christophe BarbeySwitzerland
Sun is Energy BehleemSUN for Mariko Arai Project · Japan

More Peace Songs

17 songs · Peace songs recorded outside the albums, written with poets and musicians from around the world.

Peace for All Behleem
We Want Peace Behleem
Time for Peace Ng Wang FengSingapore
War is a Crime Against Humanity Behleem & Maria ElenaArgentina
Time Is Now Alexander / JAH Kings & BehleemUSA
May Peace Live in Our Heart Glenna MayerUSA
Peace is the Answer Ronnie KUSA
Arts for Peace Guido Vermeulen & BehleemBelgium · V/O Huma Vacha
Spiritual Path BehleemMusic: Michele Bodine, USA
Children of East BehleemSinger: Sana Behleem
Deep Ocean Instrumental
Marching in the Light of God RemixMade for the Winter Gathering, New York · Peoples Music Network, 2005
I am with You Lida SherafatmandIran / France
My Heritage is Yours Lida SherafatmandIran / France
Twin Brothers Ashok ChakravarthyIndia
Peaceful Love Liza LeylaBelgium / Spain
A Bridge of Peace Ada AharoniIsrael / Egypt

Written for film

Making the Difference

Music composition for the anti-bullying resource film commissioned by the United Kingdom Department for Education and Skills, directed by Andy Hickson and produced by Actionwork Films, featuring the song Peace from East. Launched at the National Film Theatre, London, and used since in UK schools. · Music: Behleem.

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Relaxation & meditation

J. Michele Bodine · 2004

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Raining Rainbows

J. Michele Bodine

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World Prayer for Peace

A global peace project bringing together artists from all faiths to pray and unite for world peace.

From 2005, artists around the world were invited to send a prayer for peace, with no travel and no religious requirement. Collected by email, with no social media platform. A new recording every year from 2005 to 2016.

1,882Artist participations

50Countries at peak, 2010–2012

12Consecutive yearly editions

Listen to every edition

World Prayer for Peace 2016

85 artists · 19 countries

“Praying together always connects us in new and powerful ways.”Monica Willard · United Nations NGO Representative

The 2008 recording received a Special Mention at the 3rd World Peace Film and Music Festival in Lucknow. Every edition is on the YouTube channel — hundreds of voices, in their own languages.

Watch on YouTube Messages from participants

Peace songs · music videos

Four music videos, five countries.

My musical collaborations have developed in different ways. Sometimes poets and artists contact me directly at other times, I approach poets and friends and invite them to write about themes such as peace, love, and the environment. These four were set to music in Hawaii, with music videos shot across three continents.