Luke Slott is a composer and singer-songwriter from Ireland. Born into a musical family, he began studying music at an early age, learning trumpet from his father, an Irish jazz musician, then studying classical piano at the Royal Academy of Music in Dublin. Alongside his piano and trumpet studies, Luke took up the guitar and spent much of his formative years writing songs and performing in a variety of bands and orchestras. In 2009 he began recording and releasing music as an independent artist, his first release being 'Don’t Go Back To Sleep', a collection of 10 original compositions for solo piano. This was followed in 2010 by 'The Home of Laughter', a second collection of solo piano compositions. To promote his music, Luke began wheeling the family piano onto Grafton Street, Dublin’s famous busking hub, to perform his music in the open air. His outdoor piano performances quickly became a regular feature in Dublin’s shopping district and led to a series of sold out concerts at Dublin’s legendary Bewley’s Café Theatre. In his early 20s, Luke embraced the Bahá’í Faith, and after making a pilgrimage to the Bahá’í World Centre in Haifa, Israel in 2010, he began a new musical venture: singing the texts of the Bahá’í Sacred Writings. On 21 March 2011, on the occasion of the Bahá’í New Year, he released 'Create in Me a Pure Heart', a 4-track EP of songs based on the Bahá’í Writings. This was followed in 2012 by a second EP ‘The Light of Unity’ which included three more songs based on the Bahá’í Writings as well as 'One Hundred Thousand Veils', an original song written to raise awareness about the persecution of the Bahá’í community in Iran. Luke spent the following years traveling extensively in Europe, North America and the Middle East, giving concerts and music workshops in over 20 countries. WORDS 1. Create in Me a Pure Heart Create in me a pure heart, O my God, and renew a tranquil conscience within me, O my Hope! Through the spirit of power confirm Thou me in Thy Cause, O my Best-Beloved, and by the light of Thy glory reveal unto me Thy path, O Thou the Goal of my desire! Through the power of Thy transcendent might lift me up unto the heaven of Thy holiness, O Source of my being, and by the breezes of Thine eternity gladden me, O Thou Who art my God! Let Thine everlasting melodies breathe tranquillity on me, O my Companion, and let the riches of Thine ancient countenance deliver me from all except Thee, O my Master, and let the tidings of the revelation of Thine incorruptible Essence bring me joy, O Thou Who art the most manifest of the manifest and the most hidden of the hidden! - Prayers and Meditations by Bahá’u’lláh, CLV 2. Sorrow Not Sorrow not if, in these days and on this earthly plane, things contrary to your wishes have been ordained and manifested by God, for days of blissful joy, of heavenly delight, are assuredly in store for you. Worlds, holy and spiritually glorious, will be unveiled to your eyes. You are destined by Him, in this world and hereafter, to partake of their benefits, to share in their joys, and to obtain a portion of their sustaining grace. To each and every one of them you will, no doubt, attain. - Gleanings From the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, CLIII 3. Intone Intone, O My servant, the verses of God that have been received by thee, as intoned by them who have drawn nigh unto Him, that the sweetness of thy melody may kindle thine own soul, and attract the hearts of all men. Whoso reciteth, in the privacy of his chamber, the verses revealed by God, the scattering angels of the Almighty shall scatter abroad the fragrance of the words uttered by his mouth, and shall cause the heart of every righteous man to throb. Though he may, at first, remain unaware of its effect, yet the virtue of the grace vouchsafed unto him must needs sooner or later exercise its influence upon his soul. - Gleanings From the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, CXXXVI 4. Reveal Thyself Reveal then Thyself, O Lord, by Thy merciful utterance and the mystery of Thy divine being, that the holy ecstasy of prayer may fill our souls—a prayer that shall rise above words and letters and transcend the murmur of syllables and sounds—that all things may be merged into nothingness before the revelation of Thy splendor. - ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Bahá'í Prayers