ARTIST LINEUP
ARTISTS IN RESONANCE
THIS IS EVENT IS IN SUPPORT OF THE SOUND GENERATORS AND ELEVATORS ON THE FRONT LINES. MAY THEIR VOICES AND VISIONS BE AMPLIFIED AND RECEIVED IN LOVE.
***ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS GATHERING DIRECTLY BENEFIT THE CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS***
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Lynda Arnold, founder of Sonic Devas Divine Feminine Sound Meditation Experience, is a Sound Meditation Facilitator, Vocalist & Multi-Instrumentalist, Composer and seasoned Performer on a life long mission to build healthy communities through the power of sound and music. She offers sound healing workshops, private sound baths, singing for wellness sessions at some of the top meditation and yoga studios in Los Angeles and beyond.
Lynda has appeared and collaborated at Earthdance, Chopra Foundation, Bhakti Fest, Alex Grey’s Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, Mindvalley LA Live, The Shift Network, SXSW, Lightning in a Bottle Festival, UNICEF Events, Burning Man and Lucidity Festival among others.
Her intention is to provide a gateway for people to reduce stress, transform consciousness and heal through sound and meditation. She received a Certificate in ‘Sound, Voice and Music Healing’ at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco in 2010, has multiple music degrees and over 25 years of music education and performing experience.As a multi-instrumentalist, recording engineer and music producer, she has spent years collaborating with other artists and bands and touring in support of her releases as Divasonic. Her sound has varied through her 25 year, fiercely DIY career, touching on every electronic music genre accompanied by her transcendent, angelic flute and soulful vocal deliveries. Recent performance, production and sound healing projects include: Recording and performing with KSHMR, DJ Sol Rising, Desert Dwellers, Lucent Dossier’s ‘Human Initiation Project’, and directing an all woman ensemble of sound meditation facilitators and musicians called Sonic Devas. In addition, Lynda is continuing to release music under her artist name and music company, Divasonic.
@divasonic
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Luna is one of the few Mexican, certified international Kundalini Yoga + Meditation instructors in LA. When you join her classes, events and retreats, you'll experience a powerful connection between your breath, your spirit, & your ancestors.
@womanofLaLuna
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SIRENA SERPENTINA FIRE BELLYDANCE
Sirena Serpentina is a sisterhood of five women who began creating and connecting spiritually through a love of yoga, dance and nature. For nearly twenty years, these women continue to hold ceremony for all that is sacred, and offer their dance as an expression of their love of life and for each other.
Sirena Serpentina's offering for SOUND IS THE MEDICINE is a ceremony of sound and fire. This is a rare performance composed with live drumming and intuitive movement.
@sirenaserpentina
sopurkh.love/sirena-serpentina
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Welcome to Temple 1209; a metaphysical space in which one can expect to release their tensions, trauma, and limiting beliefs around sense of self. It serves as a non-judgmental realm that invites restoration, rejuvenation, and positive nervous system reprogramming.
Cheram Rozaria of Temple 1209 is an intuitive bodyworker and self-taught sound therapist that has positively impacted hundreds with her soothing guided meditation and gentle, rhythmic soundscapes inspired directly from source.
Cheram Rozaria is offering divine soundscapes through frequencies from quartz crystal sound bowls, chimes, and the native flute. She leads with a nurturing presence and encourages rest for the mind/body/soul, connection to earth, and acceptance of self.
@templetwelveohnine
temple1209.com
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Ami Kim is an award-winning vocalist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and music producer based in Los Angeles, CA. Referring to herself as a “sonic alchemist”, Kim is internationally known for improvisational singing adopted from hip hop/spoken word free-styling and a compositional versatility that incorporates American soul, folk, hip hop, jazz and electronic music.
Originally from Durham, NC, Kim made headlines in the region during her climb tothe top of its indie music scene through her thought-evoking lyrics and soulful songsresulting in performances with 9th Wonder, Chrisette Michelle, Citizen Cope,WyclefJean, Raekwon, Rapsody, Macy Gray, and concerts in over 400 venues and nationally &internationally. After winning a Queen City Music Award, Kim released her debut full-lengthalbum “Life Of A Hologram” in 2013 that led up to a hip-hop ambassadorship in Bangladesh anda residency as a cultural ambassador for the US Cultural Affairs Department with the international music incubator Onebeat. In 2015, Charlotte Magazine named her album in it’s “Top 10 Must Own Albums” and in the AfroPunk album review, commentator Ayara Pommells describes Kim’s debut work as a “conceptual masterpiece”.
Currently, Ami Kim is now traveling to various cities in the US and abroad performing, collaborating, teach- ing and writing. She creates with the intention to harmonize organic beings and the spaces we occupy to the highest level of consciousness possible - spreading love, light and unity through evocative, positively potent works of sonic & visual art.
@amikimworld
www.amikimworld.com
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ORACLE GONG
Ceremonial Approach to Gong as Oracle of Sonic Lifeforce.
We are a collective of humans who open spaces for healing and amplify frequencies that support deep relaxation, cellular regeneration, and sensual embodiment via sound.
Oracle Gong offers a healing full surround gongscape for release and expansion, intuition and guidance with Community.
@oraclegong
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Blackie Valentino, emerging from beyond a decade's shadow, arises from the ashes of his own memory to remind us of our own Light! Armed with the Knowledge of The One and possessed with the memory of the motion-of-hips, Blackie offers us a unique alchemization of Sonic Medicine to help assist in the liberation of humanity from the bondage of Self through unapologetic reflection & expression!
In the Groove we trust.
@blackievalentino_official
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LOU MAURER
Craftsman Gong Master, Co-founder of Astro Gong Yoga Los Angeles and founder of Planet Gong Stands, Lou Maurer Fully trained as both a Gong Healing Therapist and a Kundalini Yoga Teacher.
Lou is an experienced Gong Master, who has led numerous sound healing workshops and events around the world. Lou, with his natural gift of channeling the sacred sounds, guides his students through a gentle and transformational experience that has deep and long-lasting relaxing effects.
@planetgongstands
@astro.gong.yoga
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JAH POLO
Hailing from Long Beach, CA on a mission bound for completion to sing and play songs of freedom and always praising the MOST HIGH JAH RASTAFARI!!! Jah Polo is never short of mashin down babylon and liftin up the downtrodded children of creation. As a founder and member of JAH! FELLOWSHIP, LONG BEACH LIBERATORS & DUB PROPHECY which are all very strong and amazing projects, have open the doors for his musical carrier as a singer/songwriter/musician/producer. Jah Polo is a very captivating and creative artist no matter what he is doing. Either on stage or in the recording studio, Jah Polo has what it takes to leave a lasting and memorable impression on anyone who is blessed with the opportunity to experience the gift and talent Jah Polo has to offer. Jah Polo has a stage presence that enlivens the crowd and moves the hearts and minds of reggae lovers into a dancing frenzy. Jah Polo has been fortunate with the honor of having shared the stage with world renown artist and bands like Julian Marley, Eek A Mouse, Half Pint, Frankie Paul, Beres Hammond, Wayne Wonder, Midnite, Inner Circle, The Abyssinians, Wailing Souls, Culture, The Melodians, Ras Michael and the Sons of Negus, Rankin Joe, Tippa Irie, Tony Rebel, Sister Carol, Queen Ifrica, Mr Vegas, Yami Bolo, Nooris Man, Papa Michigan, Eddie Fitzroy, Andrew Tosh, Paul Higgs ( Son of Joe Higgs ), Ras Attitude, Ras Indio, Batch, Mr. Surprise, Groundation, Rebelution, Tribal Seeds, New Kingston, Tosh Meets Marley, Detour Posse, Quinto Sol, Haile Maskel, Wadi Gad, Isaac Haile Selassie, Laa Dee Dread, Dubcat, Beyand "I" Sight, Kontiki, Stranger.
JAH POLO & THE LOCKS WHIP will be performing Saturday at Sound is the Medicine Festival.
@jahpoloofficial
https://jahpolomusic.wixsite.com/jahpolo/home
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DRUM FOR LOVE
Yve and Armando Hart are the founders of “Drum For Love,” an organization that dedicates itself to "uniting hearts and expanding love" through intentional gatherings centered around performance art, live music, drumming, sound baths, elemental altars, and ceremony. Drum for Love believes in bringing in the wisdom of the ancestors to help us create the new world In unity consciousness. We invite all ages and all colors of the rainbow to gather in love.
Yve is a Spiritual Teacher, Theta Healer Master Instructor, Shamanic Practitioner, Ceremonialist, Sound Healer, Purification Coach who guides individuals to and release their self-limiting beliefs for the purpose of expanding of their highest potential and light. Yve is a catalyst for unity consciousness; “May what you do now for yourself today benefit you, your ancestors, your legacy, the planet, the Universe and beyond."
@drumforlove
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Tiffany Annique Williams, known musically as TANIQ, is an Inglewood, CA native who found her love for performing arts at a young age. She began writing poetry plus singing in choirs and talent shows as early as 12 years old but was told by those around her to find a ‘regular job’ instead of chasing her creative dreams because of her size. After ignoring her musical abilities and denying her true passions for years, TANIQ decided to leave traditional 9 to 5 workspaces in May of 2021, heal from the body shaming and trauma she endured and become an independent artist. She released her first single “Tonight” in November of 2021. Since then, she has released 4 additional records of her own as well as 2 features on other independent artists’ projects. In addition to making music, she also enjoys helping other people develop self-awareness and find joy in their life outside of what they do for a living.
Shortly after the release of her last single, she founded Green Curve LLC, an intrapersonal life coaching and consulting company where she offers self-awareness coaching as well as independent artist consulting and cannabis consulting using her knowledge from her time as a dispensary manager in the cannabis industry.
Her goals for life going forward are to infuse joy into every day, live in softness and create greatness. The city of Long Beach is her happy place and she's been a resident for over 10 years. She is an ally to the LGBTQ+ community as well as a member of many communities of like minded individuals who represent causes like body positivity, African Diaspora healing/education, BIPOC rights, women’s rights, music being medicine, destigmatizing cannabis use and spirituality.
EXPERIENCE TANIQ AT SOUND IS THE MEDICINE SATURDAY 09/24/22 at 5PM as part of the Live Music Alchemy
@officiallytaniq
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Molly Durand is a classically trained singer who at a young age sang all over the world in a choir that allowed her to know the Union of harmony and the collective becoming ONE through the voice and music. She sang Gregorian chants with Monks at Sunset on a mountain in Montepulciano, Italy as part of their daily devotion. The magnitude of that was a spiritual experience at a young age but Molly found that she had the exact same experience every time she sang no matter the conditions. She sang with LadySmith Black Mumbazzo, from Africa, and they taught her the true nature of praise singing. There has never been a separation of God, soul or spirit in music since the beginning of time, for Molly it’s a direct channel to the divine within us all. Now Molly uses a looper to be able to re-create the choir experience and to follower her intuitive leads that guide her to sing rhythmic meditative chants. Music is the universal language that continues to heal and revive is all. Molly uses her devotion and training to teach singers in West Hollywood, and records music and plays shows in Los Angeles.
@mollydurand
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Cosmos alchemizes music to empower listeners and guide them through fears and judgment always towards unconditional love. His music is arranged around frequencies of love found in the physics of the natural world to help enable healing experiences for the mind and body. Here to share his infusion of science and music welcoming listeners to come as they are, and find their hearts expressed through his songs.
@callous_thedestroyer
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Rudy integrates Reiki healing and guided meditation to create a safe space for healing and introspective travel.
@soundslikerudy
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From the triple L’s: Long Beach, Leimert Park and Los Angeles, MsTmusze is a 2022 honoree of the Pan African Film Festival’s Spoken Word Fest. A multi-disciplined artist who performs spoken word and song, MsT began as a self and peer taught writer who performed a cappella with Leimert Park musicians trained in jazz and African rhythms. Today, MsT continues to braid black literary traditions with free experimentation influenced by humanity. MsT's work is featured in the video poetry archive: Black is Soft, Mujeres de Maíz chapbook Flor Y Canto, her self-produced cd Testing and the Spreading Love-N-Spoken Words album named for the time-honored open-mic she regularly performs at and co-hosts.
MsT’s live performances include The Knitting Factory, 5th Street Dick’s, VIP Records, Elinore at MADE and the Santa Monica Airport for Magic Johnson’s Midsummers Night charity scholarship fundraiser. MsT performed for radio and tv audiences of the Saturday Speakeasy on Stevie Wonder’s KJLH radio station, The Prime Spot on WPMD, Urban Rising Entertainment on KDOC-TV and Indie Encounter on Pasadena’s Community Network. The poems and songs MsT performs are original works covering subjects known first hand and imagined ranging from romance (Pause and Hum) to black women’s hair (Wash N Go) to complicated roommates (I Live With a White Wolf Named Baby) and surviving suicidal thoughts (Glad).
MsT is a frequently sought creative partner and collaborator. With Olamz LLC, MsT co-launched the global gaming app Here and Now: African Diaspora Trivia on Iphone and Android. MsT partnered with Billie Jean King Library’s Family Learning Center to offer The Fighting Flowers creative writing workshop, which she developed. Her lyrics and cameo appear in the music video Cool released by Kershawn Ware. MsT sang with band leader and trumpeter Dave Williams in live jazz tributes to Sun Ra and Marlena Shaw. MsT curated A Father’s Love, A Daughter’s Eye father daughter photography exhibit, emceed the book launch of spec-fi novel Fatizen and was the multi-year volunteer coordinator for regional festivals Music Tastes Good, Long Beach Folk Revival and Long Beach Funk Fest.
As an artist and arts resource, MsT’s focus is building community through the arts. She creates authentic work while supporting artists of all genres, their projects and the art seeking public. She will be contributing her sound and heart in her performance as well as one of the hosts of this year’s Sound is the Medicine.
@livingdoeswork
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Oakviia is sharing the truth of her own voice and allowing this to
guide her expression freely through the art of sound. She creates
journeys through sound that reveal truth and support the holistic
healing of our bodies. She is a multi-disciplinary artist, classically
trained vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and intuitive sound being. She
offers her voice with the intention to guide us to our own inner
rhythms.
@oakviia