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Hello! I'm Angie Ewing and I've been singing all my life! Music has always been a source of strength and hope for me. Whenever I've felt lost or alone, singing always got me through. You see, music flows through my veins as quickly as my blood and singing, well, it's like breathing! I sing all the time: to my children, to my husband, to myself! So pursuing an education in music seemed like a natural progresion after high school. I attended LSU sporadically over the years and finally got a degree in Voice. But after graduation, I began to explore new kinds of music besides opera. I was a member of the worship team at my church and even began writing some new songs. Vocally speaking, all of my training has served me well, but perhaps nothing could have prepared me for what was to come!

During my final semester in College, my husband and I took custody of a precious little boy. I was taking 18 hours of classes at the time, while rehearsing for the first of two LSU Opera productions. By May of 2005, we had been through two court battles for custody of this baby boy, I had suffered a miscarriage and was hospitalized just prior to my graduation. By the grace of God, I walked in the graduation ceremony following the hospital visit and personally recieved my diploma--12 years after I first attended LSU as a freshman!

By July of 2005, we had won custody of this child whom we had begun referring to as "our son". And we were pregnant again with the first of two little girls born in 2006 and 2007! But, we weren't completely out of the woods yet. During the last trimester of my second pregnancy, I was diagnosed with Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss (SSHL). This meant that 90% of my hearing in my left ear spontaneously disappeared and with it, 65% of my balance function. The resulting vertigo kept me essentially bedridden for the remainder of my pregnancy. Thankfully, following the healthy birth of my second daughter, I did regain some of my balance, but sadly, the functional hearing in my left ear is permanantly lost. Despite these challenges, I knew that God had given me a voice and a song of hope in "Hold On (to Love)" to bring to the hurting! I trusted that he would make it happen in his time!

We all know the events of August 2005, when Hurricane Katrina ravaged Louisiana and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Several of our family members lost everything. We kept three of my husband's family members in our home for 10 days following the storm's landfall.

And while we worked diligently to help the evacuee's by volunteering for the Red Cross, PRC Compassion, and working at relief shelters, I wanted to do so much more. That was when "Hold On" was born. The song was written as a "four minute hug" for people that had lost so much and were about to lose hope. Little did I know that following Katrina, Americans would suffer through the wildfires in California, tornados in Memphis and floods in Iowa; or that the world community would be dealt tsunamies and earthquakes in places like Indonesia and China.

"Hold On" is a song of hope; hope in something bigger than ourselves. The fact that everyone has struggles is a universal theme. I know from personal experience that music has the power to heal and I just want everyone to know that if we just hold on, Love conquers all.

My heart's desire is to make a positive impact whenever and whereever I can and to connect with as many people as I can. Let's do life together! I'd love to hear from you...