Simple, original, inspiring messages in haunting melodies and lush vocals, along with musical interludes, create the gift of time and space for meandering in quiet personal meditation, or in group-guided meditation led by a spiritual leader.

3 MP3 Songs in this album (35:19) !
Related styles: Spiritual: Inspirational, New Age: Meditation, Mood: Dreamy

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BMI-affiliated singer/songwriter Renelle West weaves her own true stories and beliefs into musical expressions that reflect her own eclectic tastes, ranging from humorous to serious, big band swing to talking blues. In âDivinely Guided: Meditation Music for the Day,â West showcases her two very different voicesâthe pop singer on the leads and the classically-trained lyric soprano in the background. "Divinely Guided Morning" and "Spiritland Afternoon" are extended versions of the two songs on West's album "Spiritland."
Westâs family moved often while she was growing upâfrom Canton, Ohio, where she was born, to Alabama, Tennessee, Delaware, and finally to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she graduated from high school. And she continued this nest-building practice throughout her adult life. âI sleep with an atlas under my pillow,â she tells anyone who asks her where sheâs from. Recently, the moving habit came to a halt when she inherited her motherâs home in Melbourne, Florida. âIâm going to die here,â she announced to the same movers who had moved her to St. Augustine only 10 months before.
Since childhood, West has fantasized that she is invisible. She admires chameleon qualities and believes that invisibility and flexibility are her main survival tools. She earned a B.A. degree in English and an M.A. in Education with a special emphasis in theater from the University of Kentucky, but a higher education hasnât stopped her from doing whatever it takes to put food on the table, including cleaning houses; writing and editing for newspapers and magazines, and holding job titles such as veterinarianâs assistant; secretary to an attorney; junior high and high school English teacher in the public schools; college instructor in live classrooms and online for the University of Phoenix, teaching courses including English Composition, Speech, Psychology, and College Survival Skills; musician/singer/songwriter; published writer; corporate technical writer; and editor.
For 7 years, through the mid-1970âs into the early1980âs, West traveled with a showband on the road as a singer/musician (keyboards, slide trombone, and banjo), and for another 10 years, performed at piano bars as a single act (vocals and keyboards), on the road in swank hotel lounges and Chicago saloons on top of pool tables, and locally, when she âsettled for a spellâ in Brevard County, Florida. In her 40âs, on her slide down the backside of her nightclub Top-40 music career, West played at a piano bar on Hilton Head Island for some months while her younger fellow musicians there were struggling up the fame ladder.
Shortly after that gig, Westâs corporate friends in Melbourne, convinced that West should begin living her life as a grown-up among grown-ups, networked her into the local corporate conglomerate as a technical writer and a marketing writer. That career took her to corporations in Wisconsin, Ohio, and back to Florida.
West continues to write, record, and perform her own music. Some of her songs are for and about specific people for special occasions. She facilitates life writersâ groups, and for relaxation, creates cartoons no one has ever seen. She is recording the songs for her third album, âOne-Way Conversationsâ to be released, one by one, during 2011.
At the encouragement of some black powder enthusiasts who remember the stories she wrote about her band leader husband Whitey that were published in the âMuzzleloaderâ magazine in the 1980âs, West is recording an audio book of those articles and additional stories titled âLife With a Buckskinner.â
Itâs important to note here that West truly did all of the above-mentioned thingsâand more things that donât matter or canât be mentionedâover a period of many, many, many, many, many years. She continues to create because it makes her happy, and because she was told once that Brahms, Bach, and Beethoven did their best work in their old age. Whether Westâs old-age work is her best is not for her to judgeâshe pursues her happiness, content to accept whatever the outcome, even if she remains invisible. BUT you can maybe find her on Facebook and YouTube if you look.