Musicians Seeking Support.
MusiCares helps people who work in music: session players, crew, songwriters, engineers, managers, producers. Mental health, addiction recovery, rent, health care, disaster relief. This page is the way to them, and a person to talk to tonight.
Help for people who work in music, since 1989
MusiCares is the Recording Academy’s charity for people who work in music. Since 1989 it has helped pay for treatment, recovery, rent and health care when a life in music could not. Asking is confidential, and it costs nothing.
Their services, each at musicares.org
Who qualifies
- Five years working in music, added up. They need not be full time or consecutive.
- Or credits on six commercially released recordings or videos.
- Three years, for a designated disaster.
- In the United States and Puerto Rico.
- Confidential. Health information is protected by law.
- A friend, a family member or somebody in the industry can apply for you.
How to reach them
Not in the United States?
MusiCares serves the United States and Puerto Rico. These do the same work where you are, and each has a line that answers any hour.
Anywhere else: findahelpline.com finds a verified line in your country.
Give to MusiCares
Every dollar goes to MusiCares, not to us. It becomes a treatment bill paid, a rent bill paid, or a hearing test.
SoundMind Hopes To Partner With MusiCares.org
We are not affiliated with MusiCares, and nothing on this page is ours. We point to them because they are the ones who can pay a treatment bill or a rent bill. Everything here is free and stays free. If you are MusiCares reading this: open a room with us.
What we can do right now
Free, no account, nothing to buy.
Talk To A Person
Open a room, write what is going on, and somebody from the SoundMind.Team answers in it.
Open a room →Today’s Quest
One small thing, today. The same for everybody, chosen by the date, and your streak stays on your device.
Take it →Write Your Seven
Seven things you hold to, in your words. Saved on your device, carried into every room, and yours as a picture.
Write them →None of the above, if it is tonight
Tell one person, put distance between yourself and the means even for one night, and ring somebody: 988 · 116 123 · findahelpline.com. MusiCares is for the morning. These are for now.