“All In Time” - Listen HERE
Alongside the track release and March being National MS Awareness Month, King has launched a new initiative with his longstanding friends at Race to Erase MS (where he is also a board member), donating half of the song’s streams/sales proceeds to aid in their mission to fund groundbreaking research that will ultimately cure multiple sclerosis.
“As a symptom of MS, a couple years ago I started losing strength on the left side of my body by noon every day. This heavily affected my ability to play and perform music,” revealed King. “This song was a way to make peace with my new reality, and it specifically uses guitar chords that I can play even in the afternoon.”
Nancy Davis, Founder of Race to Erase MS, said, "We are so grateful Chad is donating 50% of the proceeds from “All in Time” which he performed last year at our Race to Erase MS gala and had everybody in a state of awe with a standing ovation.”
Chad’s MS diagnosis in 2007 kicked off years of personal study for the recent college graduate, who explored numerous forms of medication and alternative medical options. Amidst all this, Chad and his A Great Big World-partner Ian Axel won a Grammy for their Christina Aguilera-collaboration, “Say Something,” in 2015.
When the pandemic hit, Chad’s symptoms ignited further, resulting in him having difficulty walking, a decrease in stamina, guitar-playing becoming difficult, and changes to his voice becoming apparent, especially near day-end. His experience of having to readapt the way he plays guitar is intertwined with “All In Time” specifically, finding King having to reconfigure how to play certain chords.
“All In Time” will join King’s debut solo single “Change Is Hard” on a forthcoming body of work. Chad has also recently been busy at work alongside Axel composing the music for the new musical Wonder which premiered at A.R.T’s Loeb Theatre (American Repertory Theatre) in Boston.
Photo by Shervin Lainez
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