Two artists have been persistently bringing 'healing' music to millions of people for 30 years

For the past 30 years, Secret Garden's music has been an aesthetic designed to soothe, with melodies that cut straight to the heart's content, harmonies as clear as a lake after rain, and silences treated like notes.

In an era where phone screens are lit up 18 hours a day, “healing” is no longer a concept but has become a survival need of the mind. Therefore, the Secret Garden reunion in the international music project for the community Good Morning Vietnam on October 18 at the National Convention Center in Hanoi is not only a performance, but also a ritual of common spiritual care for many generations.

Two members of Secret Garden.

Music “heals”

A few years ago, “healing” was just a hashtag placed under a picture of the sky. After the Covid-19 pandemic, it was mentioned more than ever as “healing” is something everyone needs after going through a crisis. Now, it has become a lifestyle keyword as young people start to arrange their days according to the wellness rhythm - enough sleep, healthy eating, light exercise, 10 minutes of meditation before work and some soft instrumental music before bed.

“Healing” music enters as a secondary character in life – not competing for a role but appearing at the right time. And Secret Garden is one of the few instrumental projects nearly 3 decades old that still keeps up with the times, with music beautiful enough to close your eyes, clear enough to hold your mind, restrained enough not to overwhelm your thoughts. When a balanced lifestyle becomes a conscious choice, their music resembles a minimalist interface: few buttons, few colors, few noises.

The “healing” quality in Secret Garden’s music does not lull people to sleep, but rather re-establishes order within the mind into a solid framework for emotions to pass through without being swept away. Therefore, they create music that can accompany sadness. Songs from a Secret Garden or Adagio often resonate on rainy afternoons when people want to identify their emotions instead of avoiding them.

In the wellness life of young people, that music fits three essential moments: a focused background for deep work blocks (melody clear enough to not slip, restrained enough to not pull away from the keyboard), a 3-5 minute “half-time” to calm the nervous system, and a sleep hygiene with a soft track so the body can define tonight as safe. Those pieces make up a perfect day: early morning with Nocturne to regulate the heart rate, noon with Passacaglia to awaken the will, and evening with Prayer to put away unfinished things.

When repeated in a regular cycle, music is no longer something “just for fun” but becomes a habit of spiritual care. The city may still be noisy, work is still stressful, but each person can create a “quiet room” for themselves whether on the bus, in the elevator or in a coffee shop with just a few minutes of violin-piano music.

The meeting between memory and present

The “healing” quality of Secret Garden is enhanced when placed in time. For a generation that has lived through the era of tapes, yellow-lit coffee shops and late-night radio, Secret Garden can be considered a memory asset with melodies like smoke leading people back to the old rainy seasons, to the slow afternoons of studying.

For audiences who grew up with digital music, Secret Garden is the “infrastructure” that creates attention - background music to help you concentrate on work, to help you meditate, to help your body relearn a slow rhythm. The two orbits of nostalgia and the present meet thanks to a common language: wordless storytelling, few words, many images, and a lyrical melody that can be recognized even when arranged for solo piano, string quartet or choir.

When Good Morning Vietnam invited Secret Garden, the meeting became a true reunion. A performance that promised to create a “giant quiet room” where thousands of people found their own world in every note, every silence and let themselves be carried away by a common rhythm. When that happened, people who were busy searching for their own values ​​in the bustling urban area would partially heal themselves.

The generation that sent postcards that opened to Serenade to Spring and the generation that typed on keyboards to Nocturne found themselves living in the same rhythm. The bond between generations was formed not by slogans but by the body temperature of the audience: a lingering note, an exhale, a lingering echo in the chest.

Healing therefore takes place not only within each person, but also between people: tenderness is shared, stress is “co-processed”. It is here that music transcends its role as entertainment to become a spiritual support.

The humanistic meaning of Good Morning Vietnam

“Music for the community” is not only an introduction but also a value that makes “healing” go beyond a “satisfying” night. Good Morning Vietnam sets an organizational standard that considers music as a professional ethic - the auditorium must know how to be quiet, the lights must know how to stop, and the volume must know how to give up at the right time.

That kindness is directed towards the mental health of the audience. But the humanity of the project is even more evident in the way it distributes benefits and opens the door to aesthetic education: a part of the resources flows to volunteer activities, the media does not stop at “event news” but is designed as a campaign to popularize listening culture for young people. When a music night encourages listening to each other in silence, encourages asking the question “What am I grateful for today?”, it can be considered “wellness” at the community level.

The Secret Garden reunion in Good Morning Vietnam will remind listeners that gentleness is a decision and that decision can be made every day - in the way you breathe, the way you listen, the way you treat silence. When melody is the trunk, silence is the soil, harmony is the light, breathing is the rain, the secret garden is no longer out there but right in the chest.

A garden like that, each person watering a little will be green enough to block the sun. And in the midst of modern life always whispering warnings of overload, working together to protect that garden is the deepest meaning of “music for the community” so that the predecessors can rest assured to leave their memories, so that today’s people have a place to put their present, and so that tomorrow, when the first light touches each leaf, there will still be a melody paving the way for peace.

Secret Garden will come to Vietnam on October 16.

Secret Garden Live in Vietnam will take place at 7:30 p.m. on October 18, 2025 at the National Convention Center, Hanoi. This event is part of the annual international music project for the community Good Morning Vietnam initiated by Nhan Dan Newspaper and IB Group Vietnam.

Source: https://vietnamnet.vn/hai-nghe-si-30-nam-ben-bi-mang-am-nhac-chua-lanh-cho-hang-trieu-nguoi-2452168.html