Michael Fries is an awarded, 30 year old, New York based Lyric Tenor. Michael is known for his sweet lyric tones and depth of sound. Michael has often been compared to Josh Groban in quality of voice, except his style is slightly ever more Italianate and/or Irish in quality.   His voice has been called “A cutting Tenor Voice” when reviewed for his Opera performance of Basilio in Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro. Michael's accomplishments include winning Long Islands 2007 106.1 WBLI Island Idol competition winning a prize of $5,000 for his pop vocals. Michael’s renditions of Josh Groban favorites led him straight to a %60 to %40 victory over his competitors.  Michael has also won awards and competitions for his powerful classically trained vocals. Michael's rendition of the tenor aria "Il Mio Tesoro" from Don Giovanni won him the 2009 Binghamton Concerto Competition while he as attending the University for his Masters. Michael, as a classically trained lyric tenor vocalist has been seen in several operas, primarily with Binghamton's Tri-Cities Opera Company.  Michael has traveled all over the world from Ireland and France, to Switzerland and Spain; performing in such acclaimed venues as the Montreux Jazz Festival.  Michael is frequently requested by MLB teams to perform his rendition of the Star Spangled Banner and/or God Bless America before over a dozen different MLB games in baseball fields around the country.  One of Michael’s primary focuses is his singing as a ministry. Michael, a self-professed Christian is also is hired by Christ Church Oyster Bay as a Tenor Section Leader. The Choir director, Michael Haigler often remarks that “the choir isn’t the same without Michael”.  Michael, in Christ Church has often been featured as a soloist in many works including Beethoven’s 9th, Handel’s Messiah, Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy, also in many art songs and aria’s.

After 2007, with the winnings from his Island Idol Competition, Michael invested his effort and winnings into the study of audio recording and composition. The recordings on this site are all the result of that study. Michael believes thoroughly in seeing the completion of his projects to the end and ensuring that many dimensions of an artistic endeavor are all intentional choices by him.  Since the inception of his desire to record himself, Michael has been involved in various projects as a recording artist.  In 2006 Michael became involved with a band called Feriz Blue later named Truth Table which released the album, available on iTunes entitled Truth Table – This is Not A Casino. 
 Michael studied vocals at C.W. Post Long Island University under the direction of acclaimed Vocalist and Voice Teacher, Tom Goodheart. Tom’s methods emphasize ease of facial or throat tension coupled with unwavering diaphragmatic support. The results of this training come through in Michael’s performances and sound. 



We're a 4 piece (Staff - vocals, Joi - Guitar, Pete - Drums and Col - Bass) and perform songs by artists such as Royal Blood, Foo Fighters, Muse, Biffy Clyro, The Bee Gees, The Osmonds and many others.
If you like rock music (or mildly intrigued to see a bunch of ageing guys who think they can claw back their youth by performing modern rock), then look us up on Facebook or pop along to see us - you may be pleasantly surprised (or reasonably disgusted).

Hope to see you soon. x
Staff, Joi, Pete and Col 

Blòt - which takes its name from pagan sacrifice that was made by the peoples of Northern Europe to the Scandinavian Gods - It's a musical project founded by two italian multi instrumentalist, Orlando Li Mandri (Elettronic, Strings, Percussion, Voice) and Leonardo Sorrentino(Didgeridoo, Strings, Sing)who try to create experimental soundscapes.

For this project, which combines electronic music and native musical instruments, such as percussion in bone, wood, shells, body instruments as voices and throat singing, but also tools such as frame drums and didgeridoo, to try to create an epic ambience, dark, penetrating, a sounds from the northen european iron age and viking period.  

Ispired by:
Wardruna, Forndom, Heilung, Noisia, Amon Tobin, and many more...

The word "Blòt" is derived from "bless" and comes from the word "blood", an important component in the rituals.

CONTACT & BOOKING
kidragh@hotmail.it

Hai Friends,
                I’m Jose K Philip, Known to all as Jomon Philip. I’m the Youngest in My Family. My Father, Mr. K.A.Philip is a Pastor and also works as a Librarian in FTS Seminary. My Mother, Mrs. Kunjunjamma Philip is a strong support to My Father in his Church Ministry. I have a brother & 2 sisters. My brother, Mr.Sam Philip is a blessed Musician Who uses his talents to Glorify God  & lead people into Worship in many places.
               When I was born My Parents noticed that My Mouth was deformed. My Upper Jaw was in the rudimentary stage. I had Cleft lips & problems with My tongue & throat as well. So I was treated in Trivandrum Medical College. I under went 2 Surgeries there immediately, which was followed by 7 more Surgeries later on. Now My God enabled me to Overcome all the deformities.
             After My Secular studies, I got together with a few anointed Worship leaders & started working for Gods Kingdom. I went along with My brother to Many Worship Concerts which was a blessing in My life. By Gods Grace I learnt to play the Keyboard & Guitar on My Own.            
                          Despite all My deformities, with Gods help, I am Singing for God now, playing Instruments & leading Worship at many places. God enabled Me to Write, Composed Many Spiritual Songs & Orchestrations. He gave Me Many Opportunities to play with World Widely used Musicians.
                         I am Praying that God uses Me for his Ministry in the days to come. I Wish to work among the Youths & reach out to them. At Present I’m working as a Freelance Musician & Composer. Please do remember Me in your prayers. God bless all o you..   


I am a 24- year old Registered Nurse. I have always been plagued by something over which I have no absolute control- a genetic speech defect that bothers me day by day to certain degrees: STUTTERING.

I have stuttered since about three. I was told that my stuttering started as easy repetitions of sounds at the beginning of sentences. It gradually worsened during high school. Repetitions kept going on and on, and when I was stucked on a word, it’s as if I began to push harder and harder to finish it. Approaching my near- adult stage, I stuttered severely, sometimes struggling or even contorting my face and actions for what seemed to me like several seconds.

As years went on, I still stuttered frequently and with a great deal of tension whenever I talk in a group of people or to someone I don’t know well, PARTICULARLY ON THE FIRST WORDS OF A CONVERSATION. I am often embarrassed and frustrated by my stuttering. There are even times that I feel I’m unable to do what any child can do easily; produce a hard sounding word flawlessly… WHEN I STUTTER, I REALLY KNOW WHAT I’M TRYING TO SAY; BUT DESPITE THIS, I FEEL MY THROAT CLAMP SHUT; and i can’t seem to say the word until, after I have struggled for how many seconds, it just pops out.

My stuttering varies. It is rather worse in formal situations; when a listener seems impatient; when I’m embarrassed, or when I’m tired/ill. On the other hand, it's better if I’m talking to my loved ones and close friends.. Nevertheless, there were also times when it's unpredictable, which makes me feel I’m woefully out of control.

MODESTY ASIDE, many people say that I’m brilliant. They say that "I’ve got a lot of accomplishments that other normal people didn’t have". But I feel that I’m so dumb as soon as people hear me stutter. This may be a perception left over from my high school years when my stuttering was on its peak. Furthermore, there have been times when people would seem to regard me as dumb because I used to answer “I don’t know” when asked questions.. I knew the answer but it’s as if I couldn’t bear their impatience when I stuttered.

This speech defect has strongly driven me to develop an AVOIDANT personality wherein I would try to avoid any sort of encounter and conversation with people in an attempt to avoid higher demands on my speech.. That’s why I prefer to be alone and I’m extremely ‘picky’ on friends with which to mingle and interact; people who would still appreciate me amidst any personal flaw/ limitation. People sometimes regard me as ‘SUPLADO’ or ‘unyielding’ in some way, but it’s absolutely not because I don’t like them; only I’m ashamed of my stuttering up to now, especially to people who are judgmental, and contumelious in nature.. As a result, I tried to compensate this speech limitation with my talents. I focused on-painting, declaiming, writing pieces of literature, photojournalism, solving algebraic expressions, composing songs and singing.

What’s good is that at present, I can say that I’m now able to control my stuttering for about 80% compared to my high school and first year college years. I’m struggling hard to find every sort of technique from virtually any source of information on my condition, with which to reduce, if not totally vanquish my stuttering.. But I’ve not yet gained total confidence to interact and mingle as normal people would do, although a lot of people would say now that they can’t seem to notice my stuttering at all, until I reveal it to them.. Now I’m trying my best to be sociable as anyone should.

Moreover, I’m glad that despite all these, I graduated CUM LAUDE in my BSN course (which I’m proud to say I’ve achieved with all VERACITY AND HONESTY=)) and I ranked #16 in the November 2009 Nursing Licensure Examination... Thanks to all the people who supported me and became part of my success.. I’m submerged in an overflowing sense of gratitude.

God bless us all..

Hey artists all over the world, my name is Marcus McMillan a.k.a. Mark Dogg & The Master Poet. I'm from the bay area. Born and raised in Alameda, CA and currently living in Fremont, CA. I started recording my raps in 2014, but I never got the chance to share them because I didn't own a computer. I finally got one this year so I share them now. Not only do I record, I'm also a poet. I've been writing poetry since 2005. My mom inspired me to write. She also taught me alot of other things like get close to God, respect and love everyone, even my enemies like it says in the Scriptures of Matthew in the Bible. I'm currently going to college to get my degree in music producing so you'll be expecting beats produced by me real soon. To give you a lil description about me, my mom, dad, and grandpa passed away. My mom passed away on January 25, 2010, by overdosing on 18 pills of Benadryl from severe depressing. Her name was Rebecca McMillan. My dad passed away in 2014 by cutting his throat with a knife. My grandpa passed away from cancer in the liver when I was younger. My poetry is very popular throughout Fremont. I've written poems for people all over the city. I have a poetry page on Facebook, check it out: www.facebook.com/marcusmcmillanpoetry
I won 5 poetry contests in 1st place and 5 of my poems are currently in the Hall of Fame. I've written over 200 poems. I write love, friendship, b-day, loss of a loved one, get well, holiday's, video games, movies, books, and more. So, I'll end it here. I hope you enjoy my music on here and please give me feedback on my work and I'll do the same for you. Take care everyone and god bless.

http://www.indianetzone.com/38/shankh_mudra.htm  u can do this mudra for your throat, it will clear the throat for singing purpose cheers bala god bless u (whichever god u follow)

Composer, pianist, locksmith and trucker born in the Belgian Congo and raised on the windy plains of Northwest Texas. Lubbock. Handle it... been here so long I could fool you into thinking I'm from Louisiana.
 
     In the days of yor I've had the Greatest Honor to have performed in Quincy, IL with Rod Hibbert and The Satellites; once jammed with the Skeeter Tate Band (that was cool); Crystal Wind with Mickie Free before Mickie Free was Mickie Free and back down here in Texas with the original Sweetleaf, featuring the great Jr. Medlow before he was the Great Jr. Medlow out of Austin, TX.  Plus I've recorded with a hot, little short lived band named Night Flyer featuring power tenor (I mean this guy had a bitchin' throat) Gary Midcalf 

     I now "hang 'n' bang" about the DFW Metroplex here in North Texas. Talk about bananas, I'm currently considering grabbing my butt with both hands and tearin' ma ass (my hair being on fire) towards the Arkansas hinterlands. I've heard He's got some of them crossroads up yonder as well, where a man can have his lunch an eat it too...so to speak. In the mean time I'll be hanging around here in Dallas. They have some killer music here people. G-d Bless, go forth and be real

As a drifter from a young age of 14.The bottle would become my companion I would find myself drifting into a world I call " The Morbid Maze Of Addiction". At 15 leaving a good home in Montreal heading west with my thumb out I began singing and writing songs .By 16 the dreaded needle would send me further down a road to a life of insanity Useing anything that I could find to fill the void within. Ending up in places I did and didn't want to be. Like a tumbleweed blowin across almost every State, Province, Territory and into Mexico at times. Working werever I could. A good soul by now lost in the dark was almost empty. To choose right from wrong had faded to an attitude that would worsen and brake many hearts. Hope was not totally lost. In 1999 after 20 some years of a life of abuse to myself and others. I found myself in detox centres in Winnipeg Manitoba a couple times. Finally on Dec 9th of 99 my life would change in a way I never would have thought possible. " Spirits Lost + Found " a poem I wrote just before leaving detox would turn a dream to reality. By the Grace of God and the love of people I knew and met that were clean and an understanding family I found myself in a new light. Out of the darkness I began writing songs of my exsperiences I had lived through. In 2003 I was finally recording my music. Spirits Lost + found would be the first album recorded. In 2004 with help of friends at Grassroots Sound Recording Studio just outside of Winnipeg the album " Not In Vain" and 2005 "Let It Shine" all © SACanada. Playin' solo gigs anywhere I could I was in Heaven. Life was good. Then the past would come back to haunt me. Finding I had Hep C and going through 6 months of injecting myself with interferon and anti viral meds we put it to sleep.I was one of the fortunate ones again to survive. Keeping up with clean living in 2010 the cancers would start . My prostate would go and then my throat two years later was being burnt out with radiation. My days of singing are rather limited now. So as we go through life never knowing what will be. I Pray for many that are still in the problem with addictions and what they may possibly leed to with ones health and life. I burned many a bridge along the way. But I am still here to mend them. For how long? None of us ever know. All we can do is give it our best. We all have our deamons to deal with. It's in how you deal with them that will make the difference in the end. God Bless Y'all from Raymond Allan Kuran

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