Lending his voice and leadership in concert to youth groups and spiritual centers throughout the nation, Jami Lula has been honored by LA Music Awards (“Best Male Vocalist”), winner of the Centers for Spiritual Living “Youth Champion Award,” Honorary Doctorate from Centers For Spiritual Living, and many other musical and mission-based honors. His work with youth is legendary.

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Q. If you are in recovery, what was your drug(s) of choice and when is your sobriety date?

A. July, 18 1993. Weed, alcohol, sex, debting, self-loathing.

Q. What do you like most about 12-step meetings?

A Community where I could be who I was, until I found out who I AM!

Q. Do you think addiction is an illness, disease, a choice, or a wicked twist of fate?

A. All of the above…It’s attempting to fill a GOD sized hole that never gets filled from the outside.

Q. Who is your favorite celebrity in recovery?

A. Leonard Buschel.

Q. If you ever retire, would you prefer to live by the ocean, lake, river, mountaintop, desert, or penthouse?

A. A lake with great restaurants and coffee shops and community.

Q. Is there anything special in your sobriety toolkit that helps keep you sober?

A. Keep coming back, one day at a time.

Q. How do you measure success?

A. Am I loving myself unconditionally?

Q. If you had an extra million dollars, which charity would you donate it to?

A. My sister for taking care of my mother for the past 20 years. Education for at risk youth.

Q. Who has been the biggest influence throughout your life?

A. My Wife Suzi Lula.

Q. From what school of thought or teacher did you learn the most from?

A. Michael Beck with my Agape community Metaphysics.

Q. Where are you from and where do you reside now?

A. Detroit, MI. Los Angeles, CA.

Q. If you were giving a dinner party for your 3 favorite authors, living or dead, who would they be?

A. Wayne Dyer, Ann Lamott, Patrick Rothfuss.

Q. What is your Astrological sign?

A. Cancer.

Q. What’s your concept of a Higher Power?

A. The Infinite presence in, through, and as my life, as ALL of our Lives.

Q. What book(s) have you read more than once?

A. The Red Tent, Eat, Pray, Love & Name of the Wind.

Q. Which film have you watched the most?

A. Love, Actually and Sense8 by the Wachowski’s.

Q. Who is your favorite film director?

A. The Wachowski’s.

Q. What surprised you most about living sober?

A. I remember where I’ve been, who I’ve been with, what I did, usually without guilt or shame.

Q. If you could give advice to your younger self what would it be?

A. Love yourself.

Q. What books are you reading now?

A. The Lord of the Rings the Two Towers and Over Coming Under Earning.

Q What is your favorite App?

A. Voice Memo, all my song ideas end up there.

Q. Are you binge watching any TV series?

A. I’ve watched Sense8 at least 6-10 times, Ted Lasso.

Q. What is your favorite play or musical?

A. ”Wicked” got me back into Musicals, I saw Amadeus on Broadway way back it was pretty brilliant.

Q. Who is your favorite performer, living or dead?

A. David Bowie, Prince.

Q. What is your favorite musician and or band?

A. David Bowie, Brando Carlile, Prince, Bob Marley, Ben Harper.

Q. What is one word you would use to describe yourself?

A. Grateful.

Q. What is your favorite city?

A. Paris.

Q. What is your favorite hotel?

A. My Home.

Q. What sport(s) do you like to play or watch?

A. Play golf, softball, watch baseball.

Q. What is your favorite restaurant?

A. Namaste in Santa Cruz, CA.

Q. What is your favorite cuisine?

A. My cooking.

Q. What is the best piece of advice someone has given you?

A. Keep coming back and this too shall pass.

Q. What is the best piece of advice you’ve given someone else?

A. Listening to them.

Q. What is one thing that always makes you smile?

A. My wife and my son.

Q. What was the proudest moment in your life?

A. Birth of my son, receiving my Doctorate from Centers for Spiritual Living.

Q. What is a style trend you wish would come back?

A. Building a world that works for everyone!

Q. What do you love most about yourself?

A. I haven’t quit.

Q. What are five things you always carry with you?

A. Journal, pens, pencils, recording device, and a book.

Q. What is your biggest fear?

A. Giving up.

Q. Where do you go when you want to be alone?

A. My studio to meditate.

Q. What is your biggest regret?

A. My infidelities.

Q. What is the greatest risk you’ve ever taken?

A. Leaving Detroit to go to Dallas, leaving Dallas to go to LA to pursue music.

Q. What is something you are currently curious about?

A. How we get out of this fucked up administration that provokes hatred and divisiveness, they seriously need a fucking 12-step program.

Q. What book would you most like to see turned into a movie or TV show that hasn’t already been adapted?

A. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss it needs to be a series and take it’s time like many seasons.

Q. What is the hardest amends you’ve ever had to make?

A. Initially my dad, but my wife has been a living amends.

Q. How important is human connection?

A. I so need it, and when I can move beyond my tendency to isolate, it fills my heart AND I always need to find folks I feel safe with, to truly BE with!