SINGER / ACTRESS ELIYA RODEH BECOMING AN INSPIRATION FOR OTHERS by Nick Christophers
The international artist, Eliya Rodeh, who hails from Israel, always had a positive outlook on her God given talent and knew she would put it to good use. As a young girl she was taken in by a musical that she saw in her native land, which was an Israeli musical version of Peter Pan. […]
PERFOMANCE ARTIST SCYNGE XING SHINES WITH LARGE SCALE WORKS by Nick Christophers
If you are in search of real creative and somewhat radical art Scynge Xing has the answer. This interdisciplinary artist has managed to elevate her game with amazing works. Xing began her artistic journey as a painter at first but took her vision to a different level. She has incorporated the mark left by the […]
SWAY WILD ON THE ROAD AGAIN TO NIRVANA AND BEYOND By Sandra Castillo
The scenery in the world premiere video for Sway Wild’s “Chimney Fire” unfolds like a panoramic picture postcard for those looking to escape the concrete jungle to find respite among tall trees and illuminated blue skies. With its striking backdrop of old growth forest enveloped in silhouette and golden sunlight bursting through the majestic pines […]
CONNECTING THE DOTS AND STARS WITH ARTIST JENNIFER PROBERT By Sandra Castillo
The muse can strike at lightning speed. Whether it unleashes itself from the well-spring of one’s fertile imagination or from a song that embraces the listener and reels him in to that perpetual state of nirvana, for an artist, the inspiration to create is just as vital and necessary a function as breathing, in order […]
CONECEPTUAL ARTIST XU HAN EXPANDING HER WORK ONE SHOW AT A TIME by Nick Christophers
It is no doubt that America is a place for any artist to feel free to express their talent. This is the case for Xu Han who left China to give herself the opportunity to share her artistic vision. Yet she did start her first steps towards that in 2012 in Beijing as a Graphic […]
DANCING THROUGH DIAGONAL FIELDS WITH GON By Sandra Castillo
The stark, somber imagery plays out in haunting, gracefully ethereal fashion, as male dancers veiled in pearl white surround the one blessed with the kind of visage that lingers in dreams cast from the fantasies of the mind’s eye.Yet, in so many ways, the illusion is very reminiscent of the lights, shadows that traversed the mood […]
“FROM CHINA, ASIA TO THE WEST” THE NEW ALBUM BY ZHIHUA HU by Nick Christophers
It is without doubt that Zhihua Hu is a multi-talented artist who never slows down when it comes to performing. Since her time in New York after she left her native China, she has graced the stages of Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. Her skills at the piano are without reproach as she has entertained […]
STANDING TALL AS A FLOWER ARTIST SARAH “TOURNESOUL” SHAH by Nick Christophers
In the crowded club DROM in the downtown section of Manhattan a certain voice elevated the audience with elegance and style. It was the vocal chords of a shining star sprouting to spread her wings even wider. Sarah Shah’s star is rising as she has cemented her name and music with many fans across America. […]
MICHAEL SACKLER-BERNER TURNS THE PAGE ON A FEW SHORT STORIES By Sandra Castillo
According to Michael Sackler-Berner, it’s all there on his latest album, Short Stories, which boasts an eclectic, introspective array of songs distilled in the crystalline waters of the imagination of the one who employed a “huge list of players” to deliver the goods. A coterie of musical heavyweights, who backed the singer on the album, […]
ELECTRIC MUD WILL NEVER MAKE DANGEROUS PROMISES THEY CAN’T KEEP By Sandra Castillo
It was on a June afternoon, at the 2019 Art Around Adams Street Festival in San Diego, when the crowd had grown considerably in size, as the band launched torpedoes on a tricked-out, stone-cold version of the Rolling Stones classic “Under My Thumb.” Unbridled, raucous, with a propensity-for-danger, the spitfire performance from the wild-eyed, tattooed […]