Since he was a boy in Alabama, and throughout his life, Zack has sat under Mentors, Midwives, Ministers, Gurus, Shamans, Elders, Councils, Seminars, Workshops, Consortium, Monastery Life, Psychiatrists, Professors, Holy and Wise Women, Bishops and Spiritual Advisers, Natural Healers, and Great Civil Rights Leaders.
His Chaplain Services include Weddings, Ceremonies, and Funerals, as well as Family Interventions. Zack serves as a Spiritual Advocate and Hands-On Counselor and Consultant, for couples, families, Churches and Communities. Providing in the street, hands-on interventions, treated with Ancient-Modern Day Concepts and Solutions.
Zack also performs Music, beautifully weaved Bard songs sung throughout his life, which he shares.
"My eldest sister, out of the five, was the musician, organist, and lover of the Arts; especially Musicals.From an early age, she was pushing not sports but music in my face. I began around eight years of age, taking piano lessons from; Mrs. Lillian W. Foreman. She was a graduate of the Chicago Conservatory, were close friends with Marian Anderson and William L. Dawson (Negro Symphony, and from my hometown). In 1949, she had been asked by the governor of Alabama to be the Music Educator for the state (she refused) and one of the few Black people in the city of Anniston, who could go into almost any restaurant and be served during Jim Crow. I grew up singing and speaking all over my hometown Anniston, mostly in different churches. I idolize
d these two people and first majored in Voice my Freshman year in college. Successfully auditioned for the Atlanta Symphony Chorus in 1970, but because of the draft, made a decision to volunteer for the army, to avoid Vietnam. After being stationed in Germany, there was a 'freak' meeting of myself and a 'white' army lieutenant in the library, while listening to Beethoven. He walked in, noticed me and noticed the stereo and the sound of classical music and asked if I were listening to 'that'. I stated yes and begin a spill of how it was Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4. His statement in his own words were; "Hot Damn, You be in my office in the morning, because you don't belong in this infantry unit. There is a 7th Army Chorus you can audition for in Heidelberg"! (I pause, each time writing or speaking of this, to pay homage to this wonderful Being in my life. A few years later, I learned from his German fiancee; that he was killed in action almost immediately; after getting orders to Vietnam) 'In Short'; I went to the audition with twenty four other men from over Germany and four of us were accepted. We traveled over Europe, singing German folk songs, musicals, Negro Spirituals, Americana and so much else. A most rewarding expe
rience and my choice of music to this day continues to be the Classics, church choral and American musical-folk and hymns. I still render concerts periodically."
"My eldest sister, out of the five, was the musician, organist, and lover of the Arts; especially Musicals.From an early age, she was pushing not sports but music in my face. I began around eight years of age, taking piano lessons from; Mrs. Lillian W. Foreman. She was a graduate of the Chicago Conservatory, were close friends with Marian Anderson and William L. Dawson (Negro Symphony, and from my hometown). In 1949, she had been asked by the governor of Alabama to be the Music Educator for the state (she refused) and one of the few Black people in the city of Anniston, who could go into almost any restaurant and be served during Jim Crow. I grew up singing and speaking all over my hometown Anniston, mostly in different churches. I idolized these two people and first majored in Voice my Freshman year in college