Mamoru Miyano Break CD - Import

Sharon is an artist of many faces, and poses many talents. From a very early age Sharon's love of music, and her natural and unique talent and ability for delivering a song was very obvious to friends & family members. While growing up Sharon enjoyed the freedom of every opportunity she had to express herself through her music . Her involvement in Glee Club, School plays, Talent Nights, Drama Club, and private voice lessons helped pacify the urge to sing and perform.

The inspiration for the Closing of the 4th cycle initially came from several books, Frank Water's The Hopi, Thomas Email's The Hopi Survival Kit, There is a River (the story of Eagar Cayce) by Thomas Surgue, the ancient Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh, and many of Joseph Campbell's works on mythology. I must also credit another experiential source and late friend James Nicholas who has since passed on. I began this album after James invited me to a Plain's Cree sweat lodge, which is a traditional healing and or cleansing ceremony practiced by these First Nations people. I felt that the experience was a great privilege and necessary point of departure to write such an album which is a commentary on the state of the planet and our human condition. After that experience I felt compelled by a calm joy and musical outrage to write about what I saw in the sweat lodge and around me on a day to day basis, perhaps like Marvin Gaye I was asking 'What's going on?' quite literally. I feel this point in history begs the question, 'are we really doing the best we can with the planet and as a human race?' I fully understand that democracy is young pupil and a work in progress yet I believe that a shift is needed, and often it is the artists, shamans, great humanists and activists that set things in motion. I am honoured and humbled to be a small part of this shift in thinking and awareness. I credit all of the great teachers and positive influences I had around me that enabled me to get this far.