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Influences
MY INFLUENCES
My ancestors who created and passed on to the world the songs that made it possible for them and now me to survive. My mother, Marcella Robinson Barnwell and my father Irving Frederick Barnwell. I am their only child and am the perfect blend of the two - my mother the registered nurse and my father the musician/ inventor.
Bessie Jones, the Moving Star Hall Singers, Odetta who (unknowingly) made me think that it was natural for women to use their entire vocal range, Nina Simone who never knew her beauty, Miriam Makeba whose music politicized me about South African apartheid, Richie Havens who (unknowingly) taught me to play the guitar, Buffy St. Marie, and Leonard Cohen.
Marian Anderson and Paul Robeson.
J.S. Bach, The Swingle Singers who first made Bach come alive for me. Richard Wagner.
The Clara Ward Singers, Fairfield Four, the SNCC Freedom Singers. West African rhythms, James Madhlope Phillips, and all the un-named South Africans who sang their way into freedom, Gullah culture and language of South Carolina.
Baba Olatunji, Nana Denezulu, Ruth Griffin who was the first to teach me Negro History when I was 10 and 11 years old.
Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, FAnnie Lou Hamer, Barbara Jordan. Frederick Douglas, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcomb X, Anglea Davis. Amy Goodman.
Helen Keller, her teacher Annie Sullivan and my treacher Yvonne Rosedale.
August Wilson, Zora Neal Hurston, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Amiri Baraka, Maya Angelou.
John Work, Hall Johnson, Jester Hairston, Moses Hogan and Jacqueline Hairston.
Calvary Baptist Church, All Souls Church Unitarian and the Rev. David Eaton.
My sisters in SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK.
David Rousseve who commissioned my first and second commissioned works: CROSSINGS which included No Mirrors In My Nana's House, Wanting Memories and When I Die, and URBAN SCENES CREOLE DREAMS which included Spiritual. I did not know I was a composer before David asked me to write music and lyrics for his dance theater pieces. Then Elizabeth Seja Min, Cathy Roma, Liz Lerman, Touchstone Theater, Philip Brunnel, and the Waterbury Symphony, all of whom have given me major opportunities to continue the journey of becoming a composer.
GOD - the influence that has no end.
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Ysaye M. Barnwell, Ph.D. MSPH, is a composer, arranger, author, actress, cultural activist and a member of the African American female a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey In The Rock. She is a vocalist with a range of over three octaves and appears on more than twenty-five recordings with Sweet Honey as well as other artists. Trained as a violinist for 15 years beginning at the age of 2 1/2, she holds degrees in speech pathology (BS, MSEd), cranio-facial studies (Ph.D.) and public health (MSPH).
She was a professor at Howard University College of Dentistry for over a decade, and over the following 8 years developed training programs in Child Protection at Children’s Hospital National Medical Center, and administered community-based health programs at Gallaudet University, all in Washington DC.
For more than twenty years, Barnwell has led the workshop BUILDING A VOCAL COMMUNITY(TM): Singing In the African American Tradition, which utilizes an African world view and African American history, values, cultural and vocal traditions to work with and build community among singers and non-singers alike. Her pedagogy is highly respected among musicians, educators, health workers, activists, organizers, and members of the corporate and non-profit sectors.
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Hey, I’m on a US pre-release tour and I’m in Seattle right now, playing the following gigs:
March 20, 7 pm, Blu Cafe SHORELINE (19350 Firlands Way N)
March 22, 6 pm, Urban Pipeline Cafe SEATTLE (602 Valley St.)
It would be great to see you there! Greetings from your Swiss brother,
Vlada
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My daughters are 6 Sarena, 7 Savannah, & 9 Siera. They love "We Are One" Sarena and Siera love to sing but Savannah, is so shy. Her grandmother gave her the book with the CD for Xmas and she loved the song so much that she stood in front of everyone the next day and gave a performance all by herself. Her father and I were so happy to see her finally come out of her shell, thanks to you, Peace and blessings, Happy New Year!!!!
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