Having been born to a musical family where both her parents were singers, Chandra was raised surrounded by music and singing. Chandra's first voice teacher was her father, an opera singer, who began her classical training and laid the foundation of her technical skill. After University she continued to sing professionally as a soloist in concerts and recitals but found increasingly that the music she was singing and interpreting did not reflect her own creative needs and desires. Following the death of her mother she felt compelled to once again discover her fundamental connection to vocal expression and her true voice.
It was in the cedars on my land that I found I wanted to sing again but without words, without written music. I wanted to give voice to feeling, to translate my own unique experience of being. The memory of my mother's glorious laughter and my father's passionate voice came back to me saying 'speak from your center, sing from your core'. I knew the center of which they spoke was not just a physical place, but an emotional and spiritual one as well. I know the core and center now to be the still point where courage and honesty, open-heartedness and joy unit. It is where my authentic voice emanates. Where my story connects in oneness with the vibration of the universe and the spirit in all things.
Now I sing to the cedars and listen to their songs come back to me and always reconnect to my joy.
