BIOGRAPHY
Nate Landers is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, arranger, contemporary pianist, music director, motivational speaker, and a published author from Boston, Massachusetts. His musical influences are Babyface, Bill Evans, Smokey Robinson, and John Legend. His introduction to music traces back to the early '90s at a mid-sized Baptist church in Roxbury, Massachusetts, where he taught himself how to play the piano in the church basement. He conducted choirs and played the piano and Hammond B3 organ during Sunday morning services. He began his formal musical training at Roland Haynes Division of Music - a music magnet high school. He later earned a Bachelor of Music from the prestigious Berklee College of Music. He has work with community centers, faith-based organizations, and nonprofits to teach piano and voice to inner-city youth and young adults across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He was a founding member of Boston-based R&B group N2U (1998-2001). They produced and released multiple singles and an album titled “My All” under his independent label, NCL Records. In 2011, Nate received his first major label national placement as a producer and arranger on BET’s Sunday Best champ and gospel charter Le’Andria Johnson’s holiday CD, Christmas Best, which peak #10 on the Billboard US Gospel charts. He has collaborated with artists in multiple genres and has been featured on several albums and mixed tapes in Hip-Hop and R&B culture. His motto is: We are the architect of our destiny and each day presents an opportunity to build upon that foundation. Through his music, his writing, and his sensational piano style Nate Landers takes us to a place of harmonic and emotional expression.
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A WALKING PEACE
ABOUT THE BOOK
A Walking Peace is a non-fiction account of the coming of age of a young African American man adopted and raised by a deeply religious but profoundly troubled family in inner-city Boston in the 1980s and 90s. It addresses the author’s entanglement with the issues of abandonment, poverty, and homelessness. It profiles his search for racial identity, self-worth, and love—his quest for “A Walking Peace”
This memoir offers a graphic description of the physical, verbal, and sexual abuse the author secretly endured throughout much of his childhood at the hands of family members. It focuses primarily, however, not on his victimization but on his transcendence of his circumstances through the combined powers of religious faith and a musical vocation.
Nate Landers has been extensively interviewed and profiled in the press. He serves as a motivational speaker, as an activist against child abuse and neglect, and as the Director of Federal Relations for Massachusetts Department of Children and Families. He holds a Master of Public Administration from Suffolk University and is an accomplished musician of Berklee College of Music, the world’s largest independent music college and a premier institution for the study of contemporary music.
“All it takes is one person, I Believe, to show others that there exists the possibility of rising above the circumstances into which some of are born.” - NATE LANDERS, A WALKING PEACE
