Jonathan Singletary is almost ready to live on Instagram. It scans the short sleeve button-clean and different from the last time it wears. He breathes a few deep. He appreciates God quickly, opens Instagram, hit the white circle, and lives at 17:30, and people from all over the country begin to be arranged for improvisation music in a pleasant spiritual field. The time of “Piano and Prayer”.
In the afternoon, the Los Angeles sunlight shines from the curtains behind Singletary, sitting with fingers standing on the switches on the piano. Music begins. In Instagram, the members of the “Piano and Prayer” community greet each other and share from where they listen: Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Houston, New York, Mainine, Rhode Island, New Jersey and even Chile.

During the “Piano and Prayer” sessions, Jonathan Singletary connects with new people and longtimers.
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New Hampshire is a single Riff with the confidence of a musician who started playing a 5 -year -old toy piano at the family house in Nashua. Now, a 38 -year -old father begins to sing while playing, sometimes creates words, but always in a soothing harmony.
In the early days of his pandem, Singletary from the living room in New York started a weekly spiritual, but only religious meeting, “Piano and Prayer olarak for people to connect and share. For him, it was the perfect panidote for the isolation he felt.
“Hello, Hello, Welcome to Piano and Dua. Happy Monday, Sing says Singletary. He stops playing and turns to the camera with a warm and pleasant smile.
Singletary’s eyes burn. “Jaden, it’s nice to see you, my mother here, very familiar faces, Hannah, it is nice to see you, aunt in jeanet, it’s good to see you. I miss you all, I miss it.” Singletary and his family have been on vacation for a few weeks and he was excited to return. “Debra, nice to see you.”
Debra Piano and Prayer ”The original Debra Mazer follows Atlanta. “Jonathan had sessions on my pandemic list. Singletary’s financée at that time, now his wife Elaine Wellteroth, Teen Vogue’s former editor Elaine Welteroth discovered.
It was a difficult time to be a professional musician in April 2020. “I made music. I did a lot of demonstrations, but it’s all closed, Sing says Singletary. It gives Welteroth loans by encouraging social media to combine it with music. He remembers that he says, “Go there and play only, play only music,” he remembers.

Jonathan Singletary played music in New York places before Pandemik, but after the orders to stay at home, he needed another exit: Enter the “Piano and Prayer”.
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Singletary admits that it is a rugged start. The first recurrence was that he played the acoustic versions of his songs: ım I wasn’t fully echoed with me. ” So his first instrument returned to the piano. “Piano and Prayer” would be an attempt to make money, but Singletary recently launched a Patreon that recently allowed creators to collect money directly from fans.
“I was always playing the piano for fun. “This thing [“Piano & Prayer”] It has been for a while. “
Until 2020, instead of a chapel floor, wasolated people from all over the country was 45 minutes to connect. As the excuse passes through the world Covid, it is one of the online events that “Piano and Prayer” still started during the PANDEM in which it is regularly attending.

Jonathan Singletary Riffs plays during the Instagram sessions, and sometimes viewers perform their prayers in comments.
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Sessions on Monday evening are a mixture of gentle piano music, meditation, prayer and community. During a recent live broadcast, 40 people gathered – those who want to share what they think and feel in the conversation offer prayer for themselves and others.
For those affected by the flood in TX ”, a person shares.
Orum I pray for my students to do their session this summer and go through graduation, or he says.
“I pray for the families in Texas. Lord, Mercy,”.

Jonathan Singletary plays the piano in a corner of his house.
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Singletary adopts a friendly approach by meeting the people they are with their religiosity or spirituality. Never sermon or many churches – sometimes God never mentioned. He grew up in a family to the church. “The church was a big part. As long as I could remember, it became a big part of my life.”
For Singletary, the idea of going to the church every Sunday changed during my pande. He didn’t feel safe, and then moved to a new city, and finding a new church was difficult with social distance.
On the other side of the country, four children between the ages of 5 and 12 years of Bobby Brown’s 5 to 12 years. Brown and his wife play on the “Piano and Prayer” phone while hanging in a damp night mood. “Like a romantic thing in the background while we talk, Br Brown explains.
“Then he [Singletary] He throws some prayers. We pause and take deep breaths, because it tells us and reminds us. “

Jonathan Singletary, with his children.
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He lived in Brown Inglewood before moving to Atlanta. For fathers who are a supportive community for fathers, Donuts runs a non -profit group. This is the first place where Singletary is connected. Brown says his friend doesn’t realize that he has this growing online community.
“He doesn’t even encourage. He was like ‘hey, I am coming,’ he laughs. “Whenever I see my friends alive, I click to support them. Even if I can just jump for a few minutes, try to throw some hearts there.”
Both the excuse and Brown can be considered as part of a greater tendency of individuals who define them as spiritual instead of religion. 2023 Pew Research Center Research found that 41% of US adults grew more spiritually during their lives, but only 13% were less spiritual.
These data make sense to Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme, Associate Professor of Social Sciences and Law Research at the University of Waterloo in Canada, Ontario, where the field of expertise is the sociology of religion.
“No, religion is not for me. But I love spirituality. All these changes have a almost negative association in some contexts, but not your spirituality in some contexts.
SingularWith about 25,000 followers, Instagram publishes their lives on the grill and says that every “Piano and Prayer” session is usually around 1,000, but reached up to 5,000.
“This is not about the people who follow me to do something.
For now, if one is at 17:30 on Monday, you can find Singletary, ready to meet anyone who needs the “Piano and Prayer” family in the Black Lake piano.