I think every bit of music I ever did hear has influenced me in some way. Here is the short version for now ..... bob dylan, david ricketts, coldplay, green day, david bowie, miles davis, dave mathews, muddy waters, u2, tori amos, bach, chopin, fela, peter gabriel, bob marley, tina turner, zepplin, portis head, neil young, willie nelson, outlaw social, janis joplin, shrekback, jefferson airplane, the dead and on and on and on......
***KEEP THE FAITH AVAILABLE NOW!! Australian ITunes now has Keep The Faith available for purchase. Click the Keep The Faith image to purchase now or ask for it at your local music store today***
2008 is an exciting year for Toni's fans. Enjoy this update of what lies ahead:
ONE LIFE is the first digital single to be released from Keep The Faith, in Australia. One Life, debuted on the Australian Most Added Airplay Chart at 12. One Life is only available digitally through Australian Digital Stores. Click the One Life single cover to download now via Australian ITunes for only AUD$1.69. One Life will be released to the rest of the world toward the end of 2008.
ONE LIFE also has an amazing video, which Toni will release in August/September, which will also be available for download through ITunes. This amazing clip was filmed in 7 locations around the world. If you have heard One Life, you will know how fitting the clip will be to this fantastic track.
KEEP THE FAITH will be released in Australia August 18 through all Music and Digital stores. Following this, Keep The Faith is due for release around the rest of the world throughout 2009 following with a world tour.
TOURING Australia through September/October 2008, Toni will showcase Keep The Faith as well as treat us with some good old oldies. Tickets are selling fast, so be sure to book your tickets through the outlets listed on Toni's Tour Poster.
TV APPEARANCES,/b> are something you will be seeing Toni doing in the coming months, on Australian TV. She will be in Australia from the beginning of September performing and promoting One Life, Keep The Faith, her World Tour and a few suprises. Watch this space for dates as they are confirmed.
FEMININE MYSTERIES is a secret we will be revealing shortly, so stand by!!
What is your favourite track from Keep The Faith??
Keep The Faith I Saw God In The Supermarket I'm Standing Here One Life Blind Heart That Matters Dream That We Dream Of Mama's In The Kitchen Revolution When All's Said And Done Because You're Beautiful
BIO: Toni Childs is an Emmy Award Winner and has been nominated for three Grammys. Childs' debut album, Union (1988), was recorded over a two year period in Hollywood, London, Paris, Swaziland. Time Magazine wrote: "In a year of auspicious breakthroughs for women writer-performers, Childs was the standout." The New York Times called Childs "one of the most promising among a new generation of composers and performers." Not unexpectedly, she earned Grammy nominations for Best New Artist and Best Rock Vocal Performance (Female). Her first tour? Opening for Bob Dylan.
"It was all very scary-a roller coaster," she says. "Music is such a personal thing for me and I'm a very private person. I thought I wanted to be seen and then I realized I didn't want that at all."
1991's House of Hope had a very different take on life. "The first album was joy and love. But we're not all light, and my darkness had to have a voice. Some people asked, 'Why so dark?' That confused me because I didn't think it was a negative. I thought it was courageous saying what I saw, living past it and letting it go. I'm very proud of it."
The album (whose title song was heard in the film Thelma and Louise) was dedicated to "people who are growing, people who are just getting by, and people hanging on for dear life." Touring Australia, Childs found that description encompassed an audience even more diverse than she imagined. "This gray-haired older woman at an airport x-ray machine referred to the song 'I've Got To Go Now' and said, 'You wrote my life!'" Toni says of her Australian shows: "There'd be a guy with long red hair and a beard singing his heart out to 'Stop Your Fussin.' On the other side of the stage a housewife, and up front two kids with spiked hair."
The Woman's Boat, brought her to Geffen Records. Released in 1995, the single "Lay Down Your Pain" earned Toni her third Grammy nomination, for Best Female Rock Performance.
V-Day Founder/Artistic Director and Playwright “The Vagina Monologues” Eve Ensler and Childs met in early 2003 at V-Day Kauai. Ensler was already a big fan of Toni’s - the impact of Childs’ music on her life has been profound and a lifeline. By night’s end, Ensler found herself asking Toni to write an anthem for Until The Violence Stops. “Because You’re Beautiful” is the result and received the 2004 Emmy award for “Outstanding Music & Lyrics.”
Most recently, Childs' has recently recorded a new offering entitled, Keep the Faith. Childs' said, "This is an apt title given personal and world events. Keep the Faith is slated to be released sometime this year. "We promise to keep you posted."
Hello from the amazing windy plains just outside Calgary , Alberta Wonderful sites and sounds in your space.Many discoveries made at your space, very nice indeed to be Space m8s.
In a act of Kindness endorphin levels are elevated in the Giver, the Receiver and the Observer, how nice is that.
"do not seek happiness .. but .. do rid your self of unhappiness = Zero Negative thoughts"
"Share knowledge ,it is a way to achieve immortality"
I'm really excited to have uploaded to myspace my first
video! It's called 'A Day At The Country
Show'. I'd love you to check it out and
let me know what you think.
Objects and circumstances that appear in front of our eyes are simply there to prompt us to ask the right questions of ourselves. The solutions, however, can only be found when we seriously examine the reality of what is occurring behind our eyes, deep within our self.
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