I wrote "In the Healing Hour" immediately following the 9-11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Like so many of us, I was overcome by intense, raw emotion and deep-rooted grief, and felt it was only fitting to fill this performance with hundreds of healing drums to energize the human spirit at its most vulnerable moment. My hope is that this song can, in some small way, bring us all closer, together, to heal, and to remember.

In The Healing Hour

Twenty years ago, I wrote this song for my three daughters (the inset picture was taken 10 years ago). Today, they are all grown up, and I am so proud of who they have become. But regardless of how old they are, and where they go in life, they will always be my little girls. I'm eternally grateful to my dear friend, composer/orchestrator extraordinaire Michael Whalen, who added his orchestration magic to my piano and vocal parts here, and gave me the confidence to push the record button after two decades.

Daddy's Little Girls

This is a song written for my wonderful wife, Nyna. It's a very rough mix, but I was so inspired that I wrote it entirely in about an hour.

Song for Nyna

Alone and in the dark, composing at the piano at 2am in the morning.

Peter Giles

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