via News5:
Music can be a powerful force, and one band is trying to prove it can even be used to end violence.
“Truly, I don’t want another parent to feel like how I felt, that’s the key. I don’t want no one ever to feel like how I felt,” said Todd Burton, Founder of the Akron based gospel group, Half Mile Home.
Burton’s son, Treyvon, was shot in the head in Akron in 2016. Miraculously, he survived.
When his son was learning how to speak and walk for the second time, Burton knew he had to use his music as a message, to spare other parents from the heartache he had endured. It fueled the creation of the group’s hit single, “This Far.”
“We’ve always trusted in God, but our faith was tested and tried, and we were just excited and just happy,” said Burton’s brother and Half Mile Home member, Terence Buttons-Burton.
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