Tom Jackson isn’t just an actor who’s starred in North of 60 and Star Trek: The Next Generation, he’s a talented musician who’s been through plenty of struggles himself, and who uses his music and fame to help others.
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He was recently interviewed by Rosanna Deerchild on CBC Radio’s Reserved and talked about his experiences with homelessness. He was on the streets because of addiction but when someone worse off than him needed help, he helped, and his life was changed.
Jackson’s now a committed philanthropist and puts on an annual concert, the Huron Carol, to raise money for food banks.
He released an album in October, called Ballads Not Bullets, to support the Red Cross. According to the CBC, it took Jackson five years to finish the album, which he filled with songs about hope, love and happiness.
Last year the National Film Board of Canada produced a short film about Jackson’s journey to using his music to help others and fight poverty and homelessness.
“If you use your art as an instrument of change and you use it with honesty and integrity you can spread the word of love, of peace, of hope,” he said in the interview with Deerchild.
“You can do all the kinds of things that you need to do that will help others become more connected with their spirituality and if that is what you choose to do, you will be successful.”
Listen to the entire interview here.
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