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" There are so many things to be worried about, and I wanted to make a record that people could put on, and it would lift them up the way the sun did for me each day. "

Michael Franti

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" I went to the University of San Francisco on an athletic scholarship. I didn't study in high school. I was just there to get by and to play basketball. But a funny thing happened to me when I got to college. I got challenged by the work and the professors. "

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