Meet The Artists
Cindy Alter
CINDY ALTER is a household name everywhere in the world except for America…but she’s back and she intends to change that.
As lead singer and founding member of internationally acclaimed all girl band CLOUT, Cindy sold more than 14 million albums worldwide and their debut single “Substitute” topped the charts in South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Israel and throughout Europe. When the album entered the Billboard Charts in the US, Cindy moved to Los Angeles to further her international career.
Fate played Cindy a bad hand when she was diagnosed with advanced leukemia. Her positive energy and indominable spirit prevailed and Cindy’s cancer has been in remission for 20 years. Returning to her South African roots to recuperate and regenerate, Cindy’s music career flourished and she was rewarded with numerous Gold and Platinum albums and a Lifetime Achievement award.
Cindy has recorded 16 albums including 3 solo albums of her own songs. Her most recent album, “Last One Standing – The Essential Collection” includes never before released bonus tracks.
While continuing to write, record and tour Cindy also found time to write her best selling autobiography, “No Substitute”. During that time of reflection, she decided to move back to America to continue her musical career and life journey.
So now Cindy’s journey continues in Nashville, her unrelenting passion and love of music driving her forward. Once you’ve heard and seen Cindy sing and perform you too will feel that force of her voice and her songs.
As a musician, Cindy is a shining example to all, having fought and succeeded against innumerable odds. As a woman, she has weathered the storms of abusive relationships and beaten cancer, and through it all, she continues to share her uplifting energy with everyone that crosses her path.
Cindy has learned not just to survive, but, in the words of one her inspiring songs, Cindy is continuing to THRIVE..!
Deborah Bishop
Also known as Rev Deb., she is an award-winning Inspirational Performance Artist and Energetic Practitioner, as well as a Vodcast Host, Positive Media Personality /Producer, Visual Artist and a leader in the peer to peer New Earth Co-Creators Movement. Voted among the world's top intuitive and energy workers, Deborah assists her clients and audiences in moving through their pain so that they can live a life by conscious choice, versus auto pilot.
Her music, events and one woman show has wowed audiences and spread the message that "Love is the answer, peace the result". Deborah's mission at this time is to assist everyone who is willing in building a new and inspired way of life, for the people and by the people, awakening the stewards in all of us, so that we become stewards of ourselves, one another and the planet.
A successful performing artist, musician, songwriter and piano/vocal coach, Chanda Leigh grew her passion and foundation for creative writing when she was only 8 years old, when her mother bought her the first of many journals. Later on, at the prestigious Spelman College, Chanda studied creative writing and jazz piano. Upon graduation, Chanda fueled her energy into songwriting and formed the Chanda Bailey Trio in 1995. Her group went on to perform at the Atlanta Jazz Festival, Montreux Music Festival, National Black Arts Festival, and several other local venues.
In 1997, Chanda Leigh moved to Los Angeles to begin her television career in the all-female house band of the Keenen Ivory Wayans Show. After the show was canceled in 1998, she met and began writing with Grammy-nominated producer, DaMone Arnold. Together they created her debut album, "Easy on the Eyes".
In 2000, Chanda Leigh began collaborating with longtime mentor and poet Ray Grant, creating her second record, "Big City Life", an album that "reaches beyond the surface to the emotion that really tells the story." Her third project, Simple Life, is “ one of my favorite works because it represents all of the great musical experiences I’ve had in my career.” She has performed, toured and recorded all over the world, in 5 continents, for as many as 60,000 people and worked with international artists including Neil Diamond, Irene Cara, Morgan Heritage, and Chris Botti.
Since 2008, Chanda Leigh has been playing the YourDay Balance Game, a health and fitness game inspired by Love and Balance. She credits her true success, the Big ‘S’ to elevating her consciousness through her health and fitness. Through her self-improvement and dedication to self-mastery in the Game, Chanda Leigh transformed herself into C.Lei Boss Lady, the lead singer of 3D The Boss, a health and fitness Pop group based in Atlanta. 3D the Boss is the flagship artist and spokesperson for the YourDay Balance Game.
C. Lei is the lead Coach of Abundant Love Relationships and a Certified Transformation Coach in the YourDay Balance Game. She and her partner, Day Adeogba have 3 children and reside in Atlanta, Georgia.
Chanda Leigh
My Mission Statement: To imbue the mellifluous notes of life passionately, intentionally creating all that I desire to experience, fully trusting its process with humor and childlike faith, smiling inwardly as I beam forth joy and love filling the hearts of many while I stand firmly on the YDBG platform choosing to become the greatest version of myself inspiring a familial legacy of compassionate possibility, spiritual freedom and contextual healing.
Read More About Chanda Here - http://bit.ly/425UjVE
Massod Taj
"Massood Taj is a multi-instrumentalist musician creating global meditative music for sacred spaces. Drawing on influences from the indigenous music of the world’s mystical traditions including his own Sufi heritage, he composes live improvised tapestries of sound as musical foundations for various healing & creative endeavors including mind body practices & sound meditation sessions & prayer circles."
Links to online music/videos/content:
Spotify – Storm Proof - song and lyrics by Wonder Foxes
https://open.spotify.com/track/0aEFBLlVvKY8DJEqBWsTdo?si=6492a19819f94ef5
https://open.spotify.com/track/2WbnElkS4SnKsMsNuU0QOi?si=32903768713f40b6
Paul Senior's Wonder Foxes
Wonder Foxes are an Acoustic folk duo from the Peak District in the UK. Bringing their own brand of conscious music to the festival, designed to melt the heart, stimulate the mind and bring a smile and some comfort to any weary souls!
Their songs have elements of strong storytelling and social commentary with Musical Comparisons and influences drawn from Artists such as Elbow, Simon & Garfunkel and Paul Weller. Paul Senior, who writes and performs in the band and set up his own label ‘Conscious Music’ some 10 years ago says: “We’re extremely privileged to perform at this ground breaking event.
There is such a massive need for conscious music and conscious Art in the world right now. Song writers and performers who create work with real meaning, determined to give their audience real food for the soul.
Artists and creatives who are continually working consciously on themselves and then expressing their work with their fullest and best intent; working and creating for the good of All; working for a better, fairer and more sustainable world; to these people we absolutely salute YOU! and we are proud to stand by your side on the 18th March to be Fed, watered and entertained!”
Peter Paul Parker
Peter's career started as a Bass player and moved onto to writing and producing albums for his own work and others. Peter made it into the Who's Who of British Popular Music and was named in various magazines after playing Bass Guitar with Thin Lizzy.
Peter went on to change genre and wrote the Album - Anahata Earth Echoes, released on new world music. This really highlighted his change in perception of this world and how energy is actually the key to figuring out our existence.
Peter Paul Parker is a Dahn Master in the mind-body-spirit arena,
a musician and sound healer. He works with both the energy and physical body.
Peter is a Ki Gong champion, winning the international competition with the British Team in Korea in 2016. Peter runs a successful coaching business achieving
amazing results with highly sensitive people and empaths using the Dream Method.
He has set up a local charity called Brighter Living helping the elderly with
their health and well-being using Ki Gong and meditation. Peter has also worked with schools locally, helping students connect with themselves.
Peter has launched the Bright Beings Academy online internationally, which incorporates everything that he does to empower people to reach their full potential as human beings.
Peter's motto is ‘Journey Inwards – Succeed Outwards’.
Andrea Ward
Andrea Ward is a musician, dancer, sound healer, and therapeutic movement guide. Based in NYC with her band “Speaking Vine,” Andrea plays the steel tongue drum and kalimba, harmonizing alongside vocal artist Eno. Along with her music, Andrea choreographs dance for her own music videos, including underwater movement for her latest album, “Ribbon of Water,” available on all listening platforms. You can find Speaking Vine playing in NYC May 7th at Rockwood Music Hall.
Mohamed Assani
Mohamed Assani is a sitarist and composer, known for his genre-defying approach to music making. Trained in Indian/Pakistani classical music, Western classical music and jazz, his music-making seamlessly draws from different genres and cultures with depth and authenticity. Mohamed was twice nominated (in 2021 and 2022) as ‘Instrumental Artist of the Year’ for the Western Canadian Music Awards.Mohamed has brought his sitar to new audiences across the globe through innovative collaborations that have stretched the boundaries of his instrument. Career highlights include co-writing a sitar concerto that was performed by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, performing for his Royal Highness the Aga Khan, being invited to teach at London’s prestigious Royal Academy of Music, and performing for celebrity couple Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas.According to the Noho Arts District, “Mohamed Assani is a musician for the ages. Pushing his passion into the future, with a glance to his past and the history of this amazing instrument, but never shying away from what is new and exciting. He is at the frontier of cultural hybridisation, leading us deeper into the lush landscape of worldwide music.”In April 2020, Mohamed launched his newest album, Wayfinder. Using a refreshing, contemporary sound palette, Wayfinder incorporates a range of stylistic influences, including Indian/Pakistani Classical, Middle Eastern, jazz, funk, Western Classical, ambient & electronic music. It was produced by Juno and Emmy nominated producer Adham Shaikh.According to Vinyl Chapters, “The way Mohamed Assani has manipulated, caressed and amalgamated so many different styles under the watchful rule of his sitar playing is nothing short of mesmeric.”