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The Butterfly Samba
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Pie Jesu From Requiem
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Emmanuel
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Sequoia Serenade
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Canyon Road
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Eros and Anima
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Cascade
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Sad About Nothing Blues
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Chromatones
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Golden Dawn
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Prism of Time
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Red Savannah
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Swans on the Seine
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Vibrant Worlds
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Mourning Doves
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Terra Affirma
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Native Bloom
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Painted Desert
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Waltzing In Planetary Time
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First Light
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The Pleasure Of The Mourning Dove
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Kalahari Calls
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Song Of The Swans
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Eternal Love's Song
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Indian Summer
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Embracing This Moment
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Ode To Our Orb
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Until
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Open Skies
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Color Me Home

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I am an:: Indie Artist

Artist's or Band's Name: Darlene Koldenhoven

City & State: Studio City, CA

Country: United States

Music Genre(s):: New Age, Ambient, World, Classical Crossover

Bio:: Darlene is an accomplished American soprano, pianist/keyboardist, songwriter, arranger, composer, lyricist, record producer, author, actor, educational speaker, music industry consultant, international voice teacher, touring artist, and sonic therapist.

Darlene has a Grammy Award and three Grammy Nominations as lead soprano in Clare Fischer's 2+2. She is the first ever inductee into the Indie Music Hall of Fame and won 2019 Music of the Year from COVR Awards. She is known globally as the featured soprano soloist in the PBS television special and DVD, “Yanni, Live at the Acropolis”. Darlene has an MVP award from the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (The GRAMMYS®) for "Best Studio Singer" for singing on over a thousand recordings of movies, television shows, CDs, commercials, live shows and more. She has a Platinum album for her vocal work on Pink Floyd's "A Momentary Lapse of Reason." She is also known worldwide as the tambourine-waving choir nun in both "Sister Act" films with Whoopi Goldberg and off-camera as the production vocal coach, vocal contractor, and music director. Darlene has two Telley Awards for her song/video, "Love is an Action Word." Her albums have debuted #1 or gone to #1 on the ZMR Radio Charts and have been voted by Broadcasters worldwide for Best Vocal Album 2017 Color Me Home, Best Vocal Album 2007 Infinite Voice, Best Holiday Album 2007 Heavenly Peace, a nomination for Best Vocal Album 2011 Solitary Treasures, and a nomination for Best Piano Album with Instrumentation 2014 Tranquil Times.Her 9th album Color Me Home 2017, has received 35 nominations and 20 awards from various competitions. Darlene's new instrumental album, Chromatones, debuted #1 on the New Age Radio Guide Charts 6/2018, was inspired by the music of the award winning Color Me Home.

The artist also has a robust teaching program and published Tune Your Voice, an at home guide or classroom supplement to help anyone, especially musical artists, to sing in tune and in harmony, prepare them to compose and sight-read music, learn any instrument faster and/or by ear, and become an all around better singer and musician.

Darlene has teamed up with symphony and studio first chair Earle Dumler on 3 singles composed and arranged by Darlene, released in 2020, that span the classical and New Age Neo-Classical genres. Darlene has also composed and released (2019) a single "Sequoia Serenade" performed by Hollywood Bowl 2nd chair violinist Robin Olson and Darlene on piano.

Darlene has performed several free concerts for climate change awareness with her environmentally conscious "Color Me Home" album along with an official Al Gore Climate Reality Project presentation as one of his personally trained Climate Reality Leaders.

She has also taken her music knowledge to become a certified sonic therapist. Sonic music therapy is an allied health profession and one of the expressive therapies, consisting of a process in which a music therapist uses music and all of its facets—physical, emotional, mental, social, aesthetic, and spiritual—to help clients improve their physical and mental health.
For more info see DarleneKoldenhoven.com

Available now at Darlene's Website

Single: Sequoia Serenade - Neo-classical/New Age piano & violin duet

Chromatones - CD $14.99 New Age Instrumental

Color Me Home - CD $14.99 comes with booklet: coloring book/lyrics/liner notes.

Music available at iTunes . . . Amazon, CDBaby . . .

Physical CD at Darlene's website, Amazon, CDBaby . . .

The CD comes with the coloring book. It does not come with digital downloads but can be purchased at the website.

Also available at the website are Darlene's previous albums.

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Sad About Nothing Blues

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Chromatones | Relaxing Ambient Instrumental New Age Music

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Darlene Koldenhoven "Ode to Our Orb" Color Me Home

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At 8:23pm on October 21, 2020, Darlene Koldenhoven said…: Much gratitude to the Indie Music Channel for the certification of two categories: #1 Radio Charts Ranking and Performing Before Over 500,000 People. Such a delight and boost to my career. Go IMC!

At 10:01am on July 20, 2020, Anne Roos said…: Gorgeous music! Thank you for connecting with me, Darlene :-)

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At 2:37pm on November 21, 2017, Darlene Koldenhoven said…: Thanks Indie Music Channel Radio Music Award for 3 Wins in Easy Listening for Best EL Artist, Best EL Song, and Best EL Songwriter for songs from my Color Me Home album. Honored and so grateful.