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Artist
Shadi Toloui-Wallace
12+ albums
Bahaifolkacoustic
about
To say ‘everyone is a product of their history’ is true to some extent, and I’ve done my best to use my upbringing as a springboard and not a sofa. When I look back through my relatively short life, it seems as though the most important and characteristic events can be distilled into three categories: my belief in the Baha’i Faith, music, and a love for diversity of culture. Now, I’m no mathematician, but I think that to find any particular point in space, you need to have three initial points of reference. If there was some kind of three dimensional model where x = ‘Shadi’, I daresay those three points of reference is what you would use. The stage for all of this was set by my parents – one a musician and artist from Iran, the other a musician and engineer from Australia, and both devoted Baha’is. They met in Samoa, lived in Australia briefly, and in 1991 moved to Israel to serve at the Baha’i World Centre in Haifa. The seven years we spent living in Israel were vital to setting precedents for me - I grew up with friends from the United States, Germany, Philippines, the former Soviet States, Kenya, Zambia, New Zealand and India, and I know what you’re thinking and yes, photos from that period look a lot like Colours of Benetton ad’s. Spending day in and day out with people from every corner of the earth walking together on the path of service, instilled an unwavering sense of reverence and closeness to a Faith that could reach across cultural distinctions and bind so many
