Bob Cohen Moonlight And Love Songs CD

The Band regularly performing at the Whisky, The KeyClub, The Roxy, Hard Rock Cafe, and Paladino's. By theend of 2001 STORYTELLER was one of the most popularRock Bands in L.A., performing over 70+ shows.

Music was a passion for Elyse at a very young age. Born into a musical family, she began singing alone or with her three sisters almost as soon as she could talk. She quickly developed a love of the piano and was writing her first songs before she was ten. At twelve she wrote, sang and played her first song in church and discovered she had a lot to learn about singing. Elyse continued to write songs about the things that are important to most teens: young love and heart-ache, but it wasn't until the Youth Quake Conference in 1998 that a more soulful song took notice. Elyse entered an original song about the persecution of Christians around the world, and won the top prize in the competition, performing the song live before the thousands that attended and returning to Briercrest School to record the single later that year.

Soon after, Elyse discovered the joy of leading God's people into worship and discovered new gifts of leadership. She began to lead a worship team for her church youth group and started writing songs that were sung in their praise and worship services. It was during this time that she felt a call on her life to be a worship leader.

• They came together in 2002 when key members: Sierra Leonean Francis Fuster - world renowned percussionist, (Hugh Masekela, Paul Simon, Miriam Makeba, Manu Dibangu, Miles Davis, Chaka Khan and many others) And Kenyan Sultan Makende - well known music producer, engineer and bassist, (Left Field, Judge Jules, Transglobal Underground, Hugh Masekela, Mose Fan Fan, Abdul TeeJay, Moreno Veloso and many others)decided to put an Afro-Latin Jazz fusion band together.

• They have a unique sound in that they fuse traditional African drumming and chants, with Afro-Latin rhythms and Jazz improvisation.