Love Will Find a Way

Pharoah and Bedria Sanders, date unknown, photographer unknown. Courtesy of Bedria Sanders.

“Come on, have faith! And love will find a way.”

In 1977, Pharoah Sanders wrote a love song. It was an ecstatic mantra of universal love—and it was a love letter to his muse: his then wife, Bedria. 

It was, like many of Pharoah’s compositions, spontaneous. He recorded it at a studio in Rockland County, in the home of the producer Bob Cummins, during one of the sessions that would eventually become his seminal but still rather underground album Pharoah. 

Bedria was in the studio when Pharoah played “Love Will Find a Way” for the first time, and she remembers what it was like to realize that she was the inspiration:

“It made me blush,” she said. “It was just like—spontaneous, from the heart, in the moment.”

“Love Will Find a Way” — the first single from the first official re-release of Pharoah’s seminal self-titled record from 1977 — is out today, and available on streaming for the very first time.

Listen to it wherever you like to listen to music. And see the music video here.

By the way, Bedria found this beautiful, mysterious photograph when she was going through her archives to help with researching this project. She doesn’t remember when or where it was taken—or by whom—so if you have any leads, let us know. 

Pharoah is out September 15.