Following Philip Pappas' victory over cancer, he and his wife Loren started the band Mountain Natives to sing about the "Essentials" of overcoming mountains and living a life with hope, laughter, fulfilled dreams, and dreaming together.
The music that was produced by Philip and Loren was not from a place of wallowing in the doubt of life or death. These "Essential" songs were born from a place of hope and gratitude. That hope is impressed on not just the ears but the heart of the listener. Hope for the miraculous. Philip and Loren want you to believe in the hope that the impossible is possible. Mountains of adversity can be thrown into the sea.