Steven Chesne with The Luminous World Orchestra Brahmasong Records Listening to this CD, you feel as if you are ensconced in a film. Musical swells and orchestral instrumentation are layered to create cycles of tension and release. What strikes me upon my first listen of Moments from the Life Stories of Strangers, Part One by [...]
Black Swan Records Using a combination of sounds from hip hop, dub, rap, reggae and Sanskrit mantras to lace together themes of change, awareness, and breaking boundaries, Srikala delivers an album of conscious messages with a captivating mainstream sound. Srikaloy’s New Paradigm is on the crest of a new wave of what is considered to [...]
They say there is no such thing as a coincidence. I believe it. I have been a big fan of LP for years, as I have watched her explode on the LA music scene. Her ability to command a room through her powerful performance and incredibly beautiful voice will leave you speechless. I have always wanted to interview [...]
You know when you are in presence of greatness; you can just feel it. I felt something special when I spent time with Deepak Chopra. His energy was calming, positive, powerful, and inspiring. Deepak is the author of over 75 books in 35 different languages and 25 of them have hit the NY Times bestseller list. [...]
I will never forget the first time I met Enrique Iglesias. His manager, Fernando, introduced us when I was working for The Firm, one of the most powerful management agencies in Hollywood. Enrique’s good looks and charm took my breath away when he immediately turned around and hugged me. He was one of our clients and we [...]
Every once in a while you hear a song that you instantly love. The first time I heard Apologize, by OneRepublic, it was clear there was something special about this band. No surprise -- Apologize went on to break airplay records worldwide. OneRepublic has also experienced success with their singles, Good Life, All the Right Moves, Secrets, Stop and Stare, Feel [...]
Photo by David Bergman No doubt about it......time flies! It seems like only yesterday that I was in high school with feathered hair watching Bon Jovi from the front row. Now instead of simply sitting in the audience singing along, I've helped spearhead the band’s US radio promotion and marketing campaign for the [...]
We all have our own personal playlist to the soundtrack in our lives. Someone who is both one of my favorite artists as well as a contributor of several singles to my soundtrack is rock ‘n roll legend Melissa Etheridge. When I began my career in the music business, I was just out of college and living [...]
It goes without saying that music is a vital part of our daily lives. It can lift the heaviest heart, can bring back a memory with the start of a single note and can motivate a nation to action. Grammy nominated producer and organiser of the music website, Earth Tones, Frank Fitzpatrick described music as [...]
Fed Up about Childhood Obesity Katie Couric was impressed enough with her talk show guest Stephanie Soechtig, the director of the documentary Tapped, that she asked Soechtig to direct a passion project for her. The epidemic of childhood obesity was a subject that Couric felt was only being superficially covered by the media. The result of [...]