NEW
YORK (Road Recovery announcement) - The driving rhythm behind The
Strokes, drummer Fabrizio Moretti, has been positively impacting the
lives of young people in New York and beyond by spearheading his own
foundation while joining efforts of New York's music industry
foundation Road Recovery.
Together with family and friends, the
Moretti family recently launched the JuDi Foundation whose goal is to
support, finance, and promote public education relating to juvenile
diabetes information and research. "Diabetes has touched our family
directly. It is a disease that can literally be arrested through early
detection and ongoing medical care. Moretti explained, "The primary
goal of the JuDi Foundation is to promote early screening,
identification, and treatment of children suffering from diabetes,
along with raising funds for research using embryonic stem cells,
particularly research that is operating without governmental funding."
While
launching the JuDi Foundation, Moretti was introduced to Road Recovery,
the New York based non-profit foundation whose action programs join
music industry professionals whose lives have been touched by
drug/alcohol addiction with teenagers in an environment that nurtures
creativity and mentorship while offering positive alternatives.
Both
Road Recovery and the JuDi Foundation speak the same language in
furthering a message of healthy living to youth. In February 2005,
Moretti personally spent an evening with youth from the Caron
Foundation, where Road Recovery has developed an on-going program for
teens in early recovery. Moretti began working with Crazy James, a band
comprised of teens whose recovery spans from days to a year, during
pre-production rehearsals for their upcoming recording sessions.
Moretti demonstrated proper drumming techniques and song crafting
skills to the teens. He referenced his real life experiences as the
drummer for his band, and how he has learned to bring life's experience
and feelings to drumming. Moretti encapsulated such knowledge with
sensitivity and intuition, with the ability to connect as a
peer-to-peer, instead of the fa�ade as a rock star talking down to a
fan.
In furthering his involvement with Road Recovery Caron
Foundation teen alumni, Moretti chose to get involved with Crazy James'
first CD recording in a world-class professional recording studio. He
has been lending a hand in sitting in the studio with the teens,
advising on the recording session with Road Recovery's pros (Groove
Collective bandmates Jay Rodriguez & Chris Theberge, with Owen
Comaskey, songwriter/Talent Buyer -
Crash Mansion/BLVD), and showing
support to teens trying to lead a healthy life through the power of
music and shared experience. Crazy James' music draws from each band
member's life experiences: going from confusion, anger, desolation and
near death self-destruction to hope, conviction, peace and life. A
Spring release is anticipated.
Moretti explains, "Road
Recovery seems to trade sadness and disparity for focus and creativity.
The life stories of these courageous people are testimonies of their
strength and maturity. Watching them carry each other with kindness,
sensitivity and regard was moving, but seeing them work together,
writing music and allocating their passions to something communal, was
inspiring.
Music has never seemed so therapeutic as it does with these
kids through Road Recovery."
Road Recovery commends Fabrizio
Moretti for his time and commitment to the mission of Road Recovery and
to teens who will never forget this private experience.
