Ok… so I want you to imagine this genre of music: dream electronica, mixed elements from ambient, trip-hop and classical orchestration…  This is the kind of music I’ve been doing vocals for lately (in addition to my own music).  It’s ..

As you may have guessed from some of my blogs, I love photography.  I also enjoy finding spiritual and inspirational quotations so I wanted to find a way to combine the two.  For the first time today I experimented with ..

Here is a sneak peek of one of the pages within the quotation book that we compiled in Birds of Love.  I love how all the paintings are Chinese illustrations and each page has a different, elegant painting.   Since I ..

A few days ago, I took some friends from Ireland and a relative from Kenya for a little site-seeing in Beijing.  We visited the Forbidden City which was the Chinese imperial palace and the largest ancient palatial structure in the ..

The first song I composed for the CD, ‘Birds of Love‘ was the title song itself.   This is how the composition came to pass… One of my dearest friends was getting married in our home and had asked me to ..

As you may have heard, we have started making a video for the song ‘Where There is Love’ from my latest release ‘Birds of Love’.  We have been collecting photos and video footage for the project.  Since the theme is ..

I went to my first twitter meet-up last week. I hadn’t met anyone who showed up but had been in contact with one of the organizers and had met her on twitter about a year ago. I must say that ..

Melodies of the Nightingale for the Family has finally been re-released!  It has been about 2 years since it was out of stock and I was wondering for sometime whether or not to re-issue it.  A number of people wanted ..

A couple of nights ago, we were invited for dinner by the State Administration of Foreign Expert Affairs which was held at the Great Hall of the People for senior foreign experts. I was lucky enough to be invited to ..

I came across this video and really enjoyed watching Tracy Chapman performing with Pavarotti.  They have such different styles and yet they managed to pull off an entertaining performance.  I was intrigued to see how they would mix his operatic ..