Tunde Lasode has an upcoming concert, Audience of One: Tribute to the King, on Friday October 18th at Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek, Ca. Our conversation has stretched and tested me, and you might be surprised at the differentiation he makes between being a follower of Jesus vs. being religious. We talk about the weight of importance of faith, hope and love, and grief as a call to attention.
Tunde Lasode is a producer, a prolific saxophonist, a pianist and multi-instrumentalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Northern California. He is a Registered Nurse with one of California’s and the United States leading healthcare institutions and has won multiple awards including the Nightingale Award and the Daisy Award for exceptional nurses. Tunde Lasode, also known as t-Las, is an exceptional musician, who balances music with healthcare, using music as an alternative therapy in his healthcare and healing profession. According to him, music plays a pivotal role in healing, both physically, emotionally, and spiritually. It also promotes mental health and wellness. He has many experiences performing music therapy at clinics, hospitals, and nursing homes across California, and has seen first hand, the healing power of God through music. As a telemetry nurse, he has learned that music can affect human physiology positively or adversely, depending on the type of music (worthy of note is that research is still ongoing in this area). He was also part of a group that conducted research on the effect of music on delirium in hospitalized older adults.
Over the past decade, he has raised bands and performed across the state and the country, produced and executive produced musical videos and concerts.
In what he describes as a ‘new beginning’, Tunde Lasode (t-Las), a lover of God and follower of Christ, released his debut gospel instrumental album in 2022, titled Audience of One. Having experienced first hand the divine healing power of God through his music, his goal is to dedicate his gift to the glory and praise of the One who is truly deserving of it, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and to continue to promote healing and deliverance from bondage, oppression, and depression, through his saxophone playing. According to him, "music is as powerful as the power and driving force behind it, and the power of the Holy Spirit is the driving force behind my music". This same power raised Jesus from the dead (Romans 6:10-11).
CONCERT at Lesher Center for the Arts
- God teaching him how to play music instead of being "self taught"
- The homemade guitar his friend made him when he was 7 years old
- Resistance of God's gifts
- How he manifested his upcoming performance
- His brother says he's "speaking the soothing word of God through his instrument"
- His relationship with grief as a nurse and empath
- Yearning for the source of the infinite, the creator
- Faith and what do you get from it
- Hope as a loaded word, especially in grief
- Grief as a call to attention
- The difference between Christianity as a religion vs. Christianity as a relationship with Christ
- Manmade grief due to greed, not God
- The time he saw angels in a cloud of glory during his wilderness period
- Meditate to hear God
- Love is a choice...Love is God
- The context of the story of The Good Samaritan
- Be the hand of God
- Evidence of the things unseen (like dreams)
- Being a "Doubting Thomas" amid God's unconditional love
- Things that we hold onto that Jesus said were inconsequential
- I share how I reframe h8 by staring at photos of certain people as children