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David MacDonald is a Canadian composer, producer, performer born in Ottawa, Canada in 1961. At 19 years old David went to New York City where he played in Grenwich Village including the historic "Gerde's Folk City," and produced rap records in Harlem for Tayster/Rojac Records including "Luv Bug" Starski's debut EP "Positive Life" in 1981. Many urban music historians credit "Luv Bug" as the first rapper to coin the phrase "Hip Hop." Many of the early rappers came through Harlem World which was the club on 116th street and Lenox Ave. David was nicknamed "Mighty Whitey" and also produced "Prep Rap" for CBS/Nemperor Records which won a feature pick in Billboard Magazine, and "Baseball Rap" for NBC-TV and was on NBC's Tom Snyder, in May of 1981, where Weird Al Yankovic made his TV debut of the hit "Another One Rides the Bus".

In 1981, David was cast in the Broadway show "Rock & Roll: the First 5000 years" and went on as co-star and principle actor in movies for Paramount and Columbia pictures, ABC-TV After School Special and comercials for Levis and Nintendo.

After several broken relationships and two abortions David fell into an eating disorder and despair. He was cast as "Rum Tum Tugger" (the Rock & Roll Cat) in the First US National Tour of the Broadway show "Cats." He completely blew out his voice as a result of sickness, despair, an eating disorder and overwork. He left the show it was in Philadelphia. He could not speak for 3 years and communicated with a notepad. It was the end of his career.

Spiritual Quest as a Result of Losing his Voice

After losing his voice, David pursued spirituality through the popular New Age movement and became a follower of Swami Satchidananda and Integral Yoga. He had met the Guru many times when he was in New York and he continued to follow Swami Satchidinanda after returning to Canada. He had been a disciple for five years when, in 1988, he went to Montreal to meet the Guru where he intended to be given a Hindu name in preparation to move to Integral Yoga's new Ashram in Yogaville, Buckingham, Virgina.

However, he could not find the event where the Guru was going be. Coincidentally, he got off the bus right in front of Saint Joseph's Oratory. He looked up and was in awe of the huge church. He had always thought of western Christian churches as "cold stone buildings full of hypocrites" and had disdained Christianity as shallow and superficial. However, he went inside and became very moved by the little old Catholic ladies who were devoutly praying. Several minutes later, in an empty chapel upstairs which was dark except for one light on the cross, he had a conversion experience which changed his life, and he became a Christian.

Work for People with Disabilities

After his experience at St. Joseph's Oratory, he gave away and sold all his music equipement, got a job in a local charity, and eventually went to the University of Ottawa. With no intent of returning to music, he developed a patent for a "zero force" keyboard for people with disabilities. (Canadian Patent # 2,186,789) He got a job working with doing technology for people with disabilities, and joined the working group for the of the W3C which are web standards for people with disabilities adopted by many countries.

Music Returns

On a Christian retreat 10 years after losing his voice, much to his surprise, his singing voice returned. He released a CD which got airplay on Canadian Christian radio stations. Since then he has toured Canada, the US, Germany, Poland, Guam, Siapan, and Guatemala. He has appeared on CBC radio (Ottawa), National Christian TV shows, and radio programs. He wrote the theme songs for Canada's "National March for Life" four years in a row, and led 15,000 people in the "National March for Marriage" demonstation on Canada's Parliament Hill (Apr 9, 2005) where he shared the stage with Stephen Harper who is now Canada's Prime Minister. David has a weekly Catholic radio show called "Bridging the Gap," which promotes unity among Christians, and he has a popular web site "Catholic Bridge".

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