MUSIC MEDICINE FOR THE SOUL Sounds effect us in many ways. Music can have an enormous influence on our feelings and emotions as well as upon our physical and spiritual bodies. MUSIC MEDICINE FOR THE SOUL is an album of Contemplative Nubian Age music, a new genre of music that is infused with power to penetrate into the very depth of the soul. This CD offers Music as vibrational medicine, resonating healing to the Body, Mind and Spirit. Now and then we encounter a voice that moves us, a distinctive voice capable of evoking emotions, a captivating voice which quickens at the depth of soul. God has blessed "Shadiah" (Ivy Hylton) with such a voice. Shadiah is a powerful sound healer and multi-instrumentalist. Plunky Branch is a world renowned saxophone player. He is the leader of the legendary group Plunky & Oneness of Juju. MUSIC MEDICINE FOR THE SOUL is a magical, entrancing CD, which captures the synergy of sounds of Shadiah's voice, her exotic instruments from around the world and the healing tones of Plunky's smooth soprano saxophone. MUSIC MEDICINE FROM THE SOUL combines new age, world music and jazz for an extraordinary and lasting musical experience. Now is the time to experience the healing powers of sound and music. MUSIC MEDICINE FOR THE SOUL will help listeners transcend the stress of everyday modern living. It is a musical door leading to a revolutionary path to inner peace, serenity and personal transformation. ++++++++++ MEET THE ARTIST SHADIAH, MSW, LICSW Ivy " Shadiah" Hylton is an internationally known sacred performance artist, Sound healer, holistic psychotherapist, recording artist, inspirational speaker, and spiritual healer with over twenty years of experience. As a practicing psychotherapist, producer, recording artist, lecturer and concert Vocalist, Shadiah is on the cutting edge of a new paradigm for psychological, physiological and emotional healing. Just as her great aunt, Marianne Anderson, broke through the barriers of racism to dazzle the world with her powerful and spirit filled voice and music, Shadiah is creating music and sound that goes beyond the present use of music, charting a path to new musical practices for this new Millennium. Shadiah has dedicated her life to empowering people towards the realization of inner peace, personal wholeness, total balance and harmony through music. A pioneer of holistic psychotherapy, Shadiah has served as guest lecturer and field instructor in the School of Social Work for the University of Maryland, University of Alabama, Hong Kong University, Lincoln University, Howard University and Delaware State University. She has published articles for local magazines and professional associations and is a member of The National Association of Social Workers and current President Elect 2002. Shadiah is currently writing her first book entitled SOUND VIBRONICS: "Music Medicine for the Soul"...a guide to mental clarity, Relieving Stress, Finding Serenity and Inner Peace. Shadiah has been the opening act for several notable best selling authors. She opened for Iyanla Vanzant's, book tour, "Tapping the Power Within," African American Women on Tour, as well as for Depak Chopra, Marion Williamson, Dannion Brinkley, J. California Cooper, Ruby Dee and Sonia Sanchez. Shadiah serves as a Sacred Sound Workshop facilitator for Inner Visions Worldwide Spiritual Life Maintenance Center, Inc., in Silver Spring, Maryland where she conducts crystal bowl chanting and meditation sessions, and performs for seasonal programs. In 1989 founded Psychological Support Services Institute in Washington, D.C., a freestanding mental health clinic, and served as Co-Owner and Clinical Director for eight years. She is now CEO and Director of Divine Inspirations Training Associates. Offering education in holistic wellness, staff development, youth development and personal enlightenment: a new paradigm for stress management, optimal health and integrative treatment systems. Shadiah is the Associate Director of Sacred Music for the World Community School of Music, Washington, D.C. And has been charged with exploring sacred sound healing traditions of the world. She also is the Vice-President of the New Life Community Wellness Center in Washington, D.C., a non-profit organization. Shadiah has performed European concert tours with the Golden Gospel Singers and has traveled the United States performing and lecturing with the Whole LIFE EXPO and Wisdom Television. She performs with Bro. Ah's World Music Ensemble and Sounds of Awareness. She is a member of the Washington Performing Arts Society and currently enrolled in the American Institute for Holistic Theology pursing a Doctorate in Divinity. Shadiah's most recent works includes: · Shadiah and Plunky...Music Medicine for the Soul on Compact Disc; (Newly Released) · Crystal Dreams...Vibrational Healing Tones of Crystal Bowls on Compact Disc and cassette; · Mind, Body, Spirit...a musical massage on cassette; · Vibrational Healing, meditations for the heart on cassette; · Becoming Clear, Becoming Real (self-empowerment for Human Services Professionals on cassette). Ivy Hylton has dedicated her life to empowering people towards the realization of inner peace, personal wholeness and total balance in life. A mother, a wife, a servant and instrument of the Divine Creator. FOR BOOKING INFORMATION CONTACT: Divine Inspirations Public Relations P.O. Box 1176 Temple Hills, MD. 20758 301.702.0820 Dinspir@aol.com www.healingtempleoflight.com