ABOUT EMPTY HANDS MUSIC:
Empty Hands Music’s mission is to spread seeds of goodness in the world through selfless service, music, and love. All of Empty Hands Music's offerings are gifts to the world. Empty Hands is a 501c3 US-based Non-Profit, 100% Gift offering with an intention to spread seeds of goodness through its music, events & sharings all across the world, as well as through its grassroots, arts-based service work from the Gandhi Ashram, for underprivileged children in the slums of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
PRESS:
HEARTFULLNESS MAGAZINE INTERVIEW: SERVICE, SIMPLICITY & SONGWRITING - PART 1
HEARTFULLNESS MAGAZINE INTERVIEW: SERVICE, SIMPLICITY & SONGWRITING - PART 2
DAILY GOOD ARTICLE: FINDING NIMO: RAP STAR’S JOURNEY WITH 16 SLUM CHILDREN
NPR STORY: NIMO'S VISIT TO A LOCAL ILLINOIS SCHOOL
VIDEO: NIMOS'S TED TALK
DAILY GOOD ARTICLE: EMPTY HANDS, FULL HEART: MUSIC FOR THE SOUL
BBC WORLD NEWS REPORT: NIMO’S TOUR WITH 16 KIDS
JAI JAGAT: LATEST MUSICAL PROJECT WITH CHILDREN IN INDIA
ALL THAT WE ARE PODCAST: 2018 INTERVIEW
AWAKIN CALL: NIMO TALKS ABOUT HIS EKATVA JOURNEY
KUT NEWS REPORT: NIMO’S TOUR WITH 16 KIDS
JAIN DIGEST: OCT 2022 STORY ON NIMO’S JOURNEY (PG. 29)
BIBLEWISE: NIMO INTERVIEW (3 PART SERIES)
TED TALK:
We have been passing out heart pins all throughout the Empty Hands Tour. Many have asked how they can order them. Please click here if you'd like to order heart pins!
Background on Nimo:
Nimo Patel, is a world-renowned hip hop musician, humanitarian and ambassador of love and peace. His music and music videos have traversed the world to over 100 million viewers through MTV, Youtube, Tony Robins Events, the BBC Channel and more. Nimo has shared his heart-felt message in over 20 countries from schools, refugee camps, prisons and beyond. Through his Non-Profit, Empty Hands Music, he continues to use music and art as an inspiring agent of change. Most recently Nimo took a group of 17 underprivileged children from India on a world tour of a dance drama musical show he directed called “Jai Jagat” (Victory to Planet Earth).
The Transformation: Nimo is many times recognized for his degree from Wharton Business School, or for his high-flying wall-street job, or as the rebel who left wall street to pursue his passion in music and rose to fame in early 20s as an MTV rap star. But the story wouldn’t be complete if it ended there. Over the last 14 years Nimo has been serving the poorest of poor in the slums of Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Using the arts as a tool of human transformation.
Inspite of having the dream life, Nimo felt "I was not at peace, not content and not in a daily space of joy and gratitude. I began wondering, where does this all go, when does it stop, where does this end?”
To find the answers, he did some courageous experiments with his life. He let go the money. The fame. He even stopped singing altogether. To “come alive” in a new way, he meditated in the Himalayas, drastically simplified his lifestyle, started volunteering with slum children in Ahmedabad, where he has been deeply impacting the lives of thousands of children over the last 14 years. After some time, he embraced his gifts in music again. The work was the same, but he was no longer the same. He calls it Empty Hands Music – “We arrive on this planet empty-handed and we will all soon leave empty-handed. So then, how and in what spirit do we want to spend the time in between?”
Be in Touch:
You may remember the Heart Pins through an Empty Hands Event. You can make a gift-based order of these heart pins here.