Myndtalk With Dr. Pamela Brewer

Music was everything for Marcia Butler. Growing up in an emotionally desolate home with an abusive father and a distant mother, she devoted herself to the rigor of the oboe, but haunted by troubling childhood memories while balancing the challenges of life as a working musician, Marcia succumbed to dangerous men and quickly became a young prodigy on the rise in New York City's competitive music scene. drugs and self-destruction. In her darkest moments, she asked the hardest question of all: Could music truly save her life?