Seven Cycles City By City CD

From those original days sitting at the piano and standing on the family clothesline stand with a hockey stick for a microphone, O'Quinn dreamed of one day creating a life around her deep love of music. As the years passed however, her dream was packed away as she settled for the 'road most travel', getting a university degree and heading out in the 'real world for a real job'. After completing her Degree in Business, her corporate career took her down many amazing paths and incredible journey's as she worked with the distribution arm of Time Warner, managing magazines such as People, Time, Life and Sports Illustrated and then leading her to other organizations such as Mosaic Group - Sales & Merchandising Group and Cadbury Schweppes Inc. In the end, each of these opportunities provided the experience and the foundation that would eventually bring her back to her 'heart' and begin writing the music of her life. O'Quinn says of her corporate career, 'it's not that I didn't enjoy and learn from these careers, but what I learned most was that this choice was taking me further and further away from what I wanted in my life and what I believe is my purpose; writing music and sharing it with others'. Life took a wild turn in terms of purpose in 1993 when she met her soon-to-be husband Sean and he began encouraging and 'seriously persuading' O'Quinn to do something more with her songs. Her husband says, 'She just channels this unbelievable ability to connect to people through her words and music, it just touches their heart directly and I was determined to share that gift of hers with everyone.

' After losing his mother and her deeply loved mother-in-law a number of years later, O'Quinn began diving deeper and deeper into her passion and began writing songs of remembering about those who have touched her life. This CD is a story book to of her life, however, ironically it feels like it is the story of the life of many, as she sings about love, life, disease, home and being a woman. Each song holds a deep connect to her beliefs that 'all that is, was meant to be and if we just ask the question of what we need to learn from each situation, versus why has this happened, then our path will be much more fulfilling, true and personally authentic.