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Don't miss me in "For Colored Girls Who Consider Suicide When The Rainbow is Enuf - Sept 3rd - 19th, 2010".

I'm in this play with four other magnificent talents - ZZ Moor, Kenya Pollard, Shelley McMillion, and Reynelda Snell.

This groundbreaking "choreopoem" is a spellbinding collection of vivid prose and free verse narratives about and performed by Black women. It captures the brutal, tender and dramatic moments of their lives. For Colored Girls... offers a transformative, riveting evening of provocative dance, music and poetry.

We open September third at the wonderful Shadow Theatre Company - 1468 Dayton Street, Aurora Co. 80010. For more information see - AfterThought Theatre

"Lead Me To Calvary,"

from "The Journey's Just Begun"

"Lead Me To Calvary" is the third single from "The Journey's Just Begun." This song is a modern remake of a old negro spiritual. Produced and arranged by Garey Kennebrew, Lead Me To Calvary takes on hip hip and jazz legs that indicates how much i enjoy exploring new music and vocal territory. "The Journey's Just Begun" is an eclectic mix of Jazz and Soul music reflective of my belief that every day is a new beginning and the journey's just begun. This project includes a number of my original compositions.

I collaborated with a number of great musicians including: Brazilian born pianist/producer Thiago Pinheiro, producer/songwriter Garey Kennebrew,  producer/songwriter Ron Lobato, producer/songwriter Marques Brigham, and my husband Mike Hancock songwriter/producer, daughter and son -   Devonne-Lee, singer/songwriter and Beatmaster DOC singer/songwriter/poet.

Hear me as I explore more and more of my musical gifts of improvisation and interpretation. I see music as having the purpose of uplifiting the spirits of those who are willing to truly listen.

Each of the 15 songs from "The Journey's Just Begun" project are being released as a digital single every three to four weeks. following the release. I believe this approach will allow me to create for you a richer music listening and buying experience. So stay in touch and I promise to keep it interesting.

Don't forget, I'll be releasing the next single from my project on December 15th. The next one is a r&b/neo soul original composed by Ron Lobato and DeVonne-Lee called "Your Love's Shining Through The Dark".

All other singles from the new project (i.e., "The Healing Vine", "Baby Don't Cry", "The World Needs Love", are now available on all major digital music stores including iTunes, Rhapshody, Napster, and CD Baby.

All of these songs can also be purchased and downloaded immediately at PayLoadz.com.

The story of The Healing Vine appears below.

Healing Vine - The Story

Beyond a time that can be remembered, the world was a place where all lived in harmony. We lived and breathed as one, but each distinct in our gifts of Love, Creation, and Beauty.

Overtime, fractures in the connection arose as a result of a disease of the mind called Self-Absorption. The connection of the One became the isolation of many.

As life grew darker and darker, the time came for that remnant of the One which remained to reclaim those lost. From them has emerged The Healing Vine.

One by one it restores the breach.

To buy the song, The Healing Vine, click here.