Gregory Peebles
Musician, Artist, and Writer in Chicago, Illinois
TL; DR - former choral 🎼 boyband 🎺member turned contemplative 🧎poetics and the struggle with collapsing the Real into the Symbolic
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As the world judges, the most important aspect of my biography is my having been top soprano and assistant music director of the San Francisco-based classical vocal ensemble Chanticleer, which took me all over the world. For my six seasons with the ensemble, I sang concerts in high school gymnasia and world-famous concert halls alike.
On tour during the summer of 2011, I had a numinous experience that lasted a few days. When it lifted, I found my perception radically altered. The experience changed the trajectory of my life.
“Success,” once so important to me, is now something of which I am extremely suspicious, because the motives for it almost never hold up.
So now this page exists as a kind of monument to failure: to align values; to stabilize; to remain one identity; to empower large narratives; to maintain @-handles; to leave unredacted; to be brief.
My ghosts on the Internet are linked below.