In this week's live stream we join together to welcome in the summer. What better way to do this than through songwriting? From Colorado to California, Berlin to Athens, Canada to New Delhi, we anchor light and our healing vibes span the globe. What amazes me in these moments, is [...]
I very much enjoyed giving an interview for the REVOICE OF GERMANY Competition that is currently taking place in Germany. If you are working in the industry and love to sing, you too can participate! Big prizes and great fun! Voice Your Essence and touch the world. Simply click the button below to [...]
I wrote the song, Stay Gold, as a goodbye, farewell to a dear friend. We used to sing the song, Answer Me, a Streisand tune, and while composing, it kept on drifting through my head. Living in Europe, far away from many of my childhood friends, makes me miss them often. STAY GOLD is the phrase[...]
Searching for an Angel was a difficult song for me to give birth to. I have yet to play it live, but I have given it to Fabrizio Pigliucci to arrange and am happy to say that it is going to be released with the Concertissimo orchestra on our upcoming Moon in Capricorn Album. The song is [...]
Dear Songbirds, I wrote Different Planes riding through a dark night driving from Bloomington, Indiana towards Chicago. Living in many parts of this world, very far from my closest family - I have learned with time to connect inside many different layers of time and space. Today is December 4th and[...]
Chant is a living art. It has been around for centuries. Music has a pulse, a pace and a pattern. So do words. We are fond of words, for word is bond. We are bonded together through our words. Linked to each other through our shared stories. Everything that lives has a pulse, a pace and a pattern to[...]
Music can make a statement, give voice to a movement, and has the power to unite us. Good lyrics pull us into a song. Strong imagery, well crafted words speak to us. Most songs are written in the "I" form and are written for one single person. The lover. The friend. Me to You. Examples of famous [...]
When you leave family far behind, you begin to understand the word distance. You stop taking things for granted and learn to walk with open eyes accompanied by many memories. Thank You becomes a daily practice. The path can be very lonely and very enriching. Yes, it is both. When I moved to Europe [...]
Artists are intuitive people and work from the inside out. That is why, when you are setting up your writing space, you need to do it from the inside out. There are writers that write in bed or at the kitchen table. There are writers that have a little nook in the bedroom, and there are writers [...]
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