TOYIN ADEKALE (pronounced – toying add-ee-car-lee) Toyin Adekale singer/songwriter/actress and now author, born in London to West African parents. Toyin had a successful career in music as a singer/songwriter, traveling all over the world (covering 5 of 7 continents), performing for Kings & Queens, Presidents & Prime Ministers and dignitaries. Her platform was as varied as her life from clubs, theatres and stadiums, to Palaces and State buildings such as the Houses of Parliament in London, St James Palace, to the Kremlin in Russia. Toyin lists amongst her many highlights, singing the National Anthem for Nigeria’s Eagles Soccer Team at London’s QPR grounds against the infamous Jamaica Reggae Boys, as one of many cherished moments, not to mention a brief encounter with legendary inspiration, Diana Ross and interviewing the late great Bob Marley’s Mother, Cedella Booker. Toyin Adekale’s career started at the tender age of 15 as a solo artist, where she also discovered her gift for harmony. Having sung with nearly all the reggae greats from Dennis Brown, Delroy Wilson, Freddie McGregor, Sanchez and Gregory Isaacs, her gifts were sought by other genre’s where she became vocal coordinator/arranger and backing vocalist to the likes of Soul II Soul, Imagination, Cliff Richard, Maxi Priest, Gabrielle and sharing the stage with so many great names too numerous to mention. During Toyin’s solo career she was the fourth member of world renowned, Boney M (featuring Maizie Williams for 13 years). Through the entity of music, Toyin was drawn into theater through actor/director, Larrington Walker (from which many great names also aspired), taking her into more demanding lead roles with a list of successful plays behind her both in the UK and US. At this point Toyin was motivated to pen her own play and thereafter her first book of short stories, “I Do, Do You?”. In 2005 Toyin Adekale came to the US with her children, putting her career, family and fans behind her to live a somewhat "normal life" of motherhood and a total change of lifestyle. In the first 2 years of Toyin’s transitioning to American life, she also faced some serious life changing challenges, dealing with health, divorce, children and helplessness brought on by life issues. During this time Toyin found a new calling on her life and an overwhelming desire to cause positive change and effect in other people’s lives. Toyin had touched people with her music in the past, but not the way she now desired. Toyin’s writing skills and theatre experience, laced with her musical background was to be amalgamated for that higher calling at last. Toyin was no longer pursuing a career of fame and fortune, she had once tasted. Instead, her new path was now pursuing her. Toyin Adekale wore many belts as an artist. Director of the UK’s first reggae choir ‘Talithavoices’; CEO of label and Arts & Entertainments Company, Talithavoices Enterprise, which is an umbrella of all forms of artistic expression in the name of entertaining, whilst improving people’s lives. Toyin has finally come to where she believes has been called to, as the pages unfold and her stories are now told in her new book (with a single of the same title "I DO, DO YOU?" Launching the drama “It’s Not Over Til It’s Over”, taken from the book in 2017, also featuring the new singles ‘THANK YOU MAMA” and now "OPEN UP MY HEART" collaboration with TTM Collective features the following crew, who Toyin would like to thank. Musicians:- Ed Rieband (Trombone), Floyd Parris (Guitars), Stuart Green (Keyboards) Gary Dixon (Drums, Base & Percussion) TTM Collective Producers - Gary Dixon & Stuart Green Executive Producer Gary Dixon Recorded at: III Chronicles Studio (London/England) Engineer: Stuart Green Impossible Reality Studio (Issaquah/Washington, USA) Vocal Engineer: Stefan Heller Photographer: Chris Charles Williams Photography 2017 Toyin sings a different love song. Her mission now is to move you from pain to gain. Welcome to the Toyin Adekale’s JOURNEY…to be cont…