Beautiful, soft, flowing, relaxing music - blending grand piano, strings, and a touch of flute and harp. Perfect for pet separation anxiety, traveling, etc. Plus, purchase benefits several charities.

8 MP3 Songs
EASY LISTENING: Background Music, EASY LISTENING: Mood Music

Show all album songs: Mood Music for Cats (And Cat Lovers) "Ball of Twine" Songs


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recommended if you like soft, beautiful music that flows like a kite in a gentle breeze! It's like a gentle scratch behind your pussycat's ears! Plus, you'll help pets and people!

About this album:

"Ever since I was a young girl, I have had a love for music and animals. In the mid 90âs I had the idea of combining my two passions into a music CD. At the time, I was owner of a nightclub on Hilton Head Island called Cheryl's LeCabaret Piano Bar, and entertained there as well as ran the place. I started the musical 'pet project', but as life would have it, the project kept getting set aside.

All of that changed in June of 2007. For the first time in many years, my schedule was freed up to where I could spend most of the summer working on the music for the âpet projectâ. A new company was formed...Mood Music Media Company! There's company partners Mark and Lise Husbands, (a wonderful âmusicalâ couple on Hilton Head Island whom Iâve known for years...Mark is a multi-talented drummer with 'The Headliners' Band for many years - a very talented and well known group of musicians who can play anything and have traveled everywhere! but make their homebase in the Lowcountry of South Carolina). There's also Jeff Borthick,(my man! whose full time job is selling real estate for ERA). I was able to record my songs with Mark at their studio (Husbands Productions Studio). Mark mixed and produced the final product. I worked with Lise on getting the graphics perfected, and she worked endlessly doing research, printing, "computering" as well as numorous other things! Jeff wrote the titles (from his âanimal mindsetâ) and helped with the websites. Collectively, we have done so much moreâ¦too much to list. The CD is finished now, and I couldnât be happier! I feel great about the finished product...here's some information about it."

Itâs like your musical prescription for relaxing with your favorite feline, or to help relieve your cat/kitten from stress due to trauma from injury or surgery, bad weather, separation anxiety, traveling, weaning pups, etc.

Veterinarians and pet owners have known about the beneficial effects of music therapy for years. Music therapy helps pets just as it helps humans. â soundâs good, feels good!

This CD, âA Ball of Twineâ is a collection of emotionally settling music â a comforting blend of grand piano, strings and a touch of flute. This music is like a gentle scratch behind your pussycatâs ears!

The other wonderful thing about this CD, is that with your purchase, a donation is made to ASPCA (American Society for the Prevention of Animal Cruelty) and the Alzheimerâs Research Foundation â Fisher Center. You help pets and people! How cool is that?!

The songs reflect the moods of the titlesâ¦always relaxing.

I hope you and your beloved pussycat enjoy this CD as much as I enjoyed making it! If you have any questions or comments please feel free to e-mail me at

sales@moodmusicforpets.com or write to me at:

Cheryl Christine Check out my website at
P.O. Box 318 www.cherylchristine.com
Port Royal, SC 29935

About Cheryl...

It all started for one evening, when Cheryl and her family were visiting some friends on a farm in Stillwater, Minnesotaâ¦the hosts had a piano and Cheryl loved to play itâ¦(she was barely four years old.) During one of these visits, she happened to play a familiar tune. Thatâs when the realization came that maybe she had some talent!

At Christmas, her dad brought home a toy piano for Cheryl, and a guitar for her older brother Gary. At five years of age, Cheryl graduated to her first ârealâ pianoâ¦a Story & Clark spinet piano pur-chased at the Minnesota State Fairgroundsâshe still has both pianosâ today! The piano lessons started at age six. Cheryl took classical piano with tutors at St. Josephâs Academy in St. Paul, MN, and âin-homeâ lessons until the age of eleven. (The sad and sudden death of her last tutor ended formal training.)

Cheryl also learned to play the flute at eight years of age, and during her high school years at, she won 1st Place state and regional competitions with classical compositions. She played the baritone saxophone in stage band at Monroe High School, St. Paul, Minnesota.

At 16, Cheryl started playing in local rock bands in her hometown of St. Paul, Minnesota. Her father belonged to the Honeywell Country Club in Golden Valley, MN. where she and her drummer friend Lee Brandenburg played several gigs. (OK, it doesnât hurt to have contacts!) Cheryl also taught Wurlitzer organ/piano lessons and became involved in sales for some years before landing her first steady singing job at CC Richards Supper Club in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, when she was 23.

After signing with Comstock Records in 1986, Cheryl recorded several of her own compositions in Nashville, (âI Donât Love You Enoughâ - To Miss You When Youâre Goneâ, for example) charting the Top Ten Peugeot Playbill in England and the Top 35 Independent Country Charts in the United States.

Cheryl moved to Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, in June of 1987. Before settling in South Carolina, she traveled extensively throughout Europe, singing and entertaining at nightclubs and hotels. She has entertained audiences in the Southeast for more than 20 years... from the parties of her dear friend âAwesomeâ Lawson Hamilton at the Greenbrier Hotel in West Virginia, to The Summerhouse in Sarasota Florida, to The Mansion in Savannah Georgia, Palmetto Bluff, etc.

She was co-owner of The Casablanca Piano Bar on Hilton Head Island from 1988 to 1991, before opening her own establishment called Cheryl's Le Cabaret Piano Bar in June of 1991. It was a wonderful place where locals and visitors alike would come to enjoy Cheryl and her guest singers and musicians, dance, imbibe, and have great conversation. Many people, including Cheryl, still talk about many of the wonderful memories they had there. Couples met there and have since marriedâ¦Cheryl even married a couple there herself, whom she still keeps in contact with! There were many regular guest singers that people loved to talk about!!! Health issues forced Cheryl to sell the business instead of signing another five year lease. Cheryl is a cancer survivor.

After selling Le Cabaret in October 2001, Cheryl took time off to travel and to attend the Savannah College of Art and Design in the field of Film and Video Production. She worked in production at WHHI-TV Channel 3 on Hilton Head for over three years, taping and editing shows, conducting interviews, and on-location shoots. She now has her own Ideography business and has created hundreds of âstory albumsâ on DVDâ¦from family reunions, birthday parties, video messages, cooking shows, documentaries, vacation stories, family albums, to pet stories, baby storiesâ¦Cheryl has created many music videos!

The latest endeavor for Cheryl is the new company she and her partners (Mark & Lise Husbands, Jeffrey Borthick) have formed called Mood Music Media Company. Cherylâs passion for animals is high on her list. Her latest CD releaseâs, Gone For a Walk âMood Music For Dogâsâ (And Dog Lovers), and Ball of Twine âMood Music For Catâs (And Cat Lovers), combine Cherylâs two passions, (music and animals), with soft beautiful relaxing music through grand piano, strings, harp and fluteâ¦all with music she composed.

Cherylâs mother suffers from Alzheimerâs disease, and her father is the â36â hour caretaker. To those whose lives have been touched by this disease, you know how devastating this process can be. Cheryl has decided to donate a percentage of the proceeds of her Gone For a Walk, & Ball of Twine CDâs to the Alzheimerâs Research Foundation â Fisher Center. They work hard to find the cause and cure for this disease.

Of course, a percentage of the proceeds also go to ASPCA â The American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Hopefully, we all are well aware of the horrible abuse and abandonment of animals in this country. Cheryl supports this charity. She volunteered for the Jasper County Animal Shelter for three years and has seen first hand some of the terrible abuse and situations of these cats and dogs.

Five things you might not know about Cherylâ¦

1. Sheâs a country girl at heartâ¦one of her favorite things to do is spend the day gardening and mow the lawn on the tractor mower!
2. Sheâs most comfortable in a baseball cap and a pair of jeans
3. She loves her old 1978 Buick Riviera
4. She used to race cars
5. She once thought about being an oceanographer-loves scuba diving with Jeff


C e l e b r a t e H I l t o n H e a d M a g a z I n e May 2007

The PRINCE
And the
ANGEL
By: Paul deVere
Though she doesnât realize it, she still has her Minnesota accent when she talks. But it sure doesnât show up in the smoky, sultry sound of her voice when she delivers a song from her seemingly endless repertoire of music that includes everything from the big band sound to Rascal Flatts. Old and new fans can attest to that when they cheer her on at CQâs Restaurant on Hilton Head Island.

Fortunately, those same old and new fans of Cheryl Christine will be able to hear it all on her new CD, âI Hope You Danceâ, to be released this month. Recorded on Hilton Head Island at Husbands Production Studio, Cheryl shows her love of light jazz and swing with hits like âThem There Eyes,â made famous by Billie Holiday and âIt Had To Be You,â a Sinatra standard. There is a nod to with Christineâs interpretation of the Rascal Flattâs hit
âGod Bless The Broken Road,â and to contemporary ballads, like Carole Kingâs âWill You Love Me Tomorrow.â

On the new CD, Mark Husbands provides drums and percussion, Steve Rich plays clarinet and saxaphones (alto, tenor and soprano) and, besides the vocals and piano, Cheryl adds flute and synthesizer to the mix. âIâm real happy with the way it turned out,â
Christine said.

This one-time piano teacher from Minnesota began to develop, in musical terms, her âmulti-lingualâ talent at CC Richards supper club in White Bear Lake, just north of the Capitol. The piano player didnât show up for his job two nights in a row. âIt was the first place we went,â Christine recalled. She had decided she just had to perform and took a friend with her to go job hunting. âI just kind of sat down and said, âOh, I can play.â And the fellow said, âWell, youâre hired. You can start tomorrow night. What kind of stuff do you sing? I said, âOh, I donât sing. And he said, âYou want to play, youâve got to sing.â I actually always sang when I played, but was very shy and didnât sing in front of anybody. But I wanted the job bad enough,â she said.

âThe next night I came with as many songs as I could gather,â she continued. âI was scared to death. Whenever I went within two miles of the place, I just froze. But friends helped me get through it.

Hilton Head Islanders got their first taste of Cherylâs talent when she became co-owner and performer at Casablanca Piano Bar (now Jump & Philâs) in 1988. From 1991 to 2001, she developed an even larger following as owner and performer at Cherylâs LeCabaret Piano Bar, a popular hangout for locals and a âtrueâ discovery for visitors. (now the Sage Room restaurant) âI had a great run there,â Christine said. But health problems (Cheryl is a cancer survivor) forced her to sell. âIt was the hardest decision Iâve ever had to make,â she said.

To succeed with any audience, whether they are at the Village Vanguard in New York or the Greenbrier Hotel or CQâs Restaurant, you have to continually please. During the 1980âs, Cheryl did that and more. She signed with Comstock Records and âchartedâ in England on the Peugeot Playbill and in the U.S. with her own compositions and recordings. She toured Europe in that decade three times, especially Sweden, where she developed friendships that survive today.

âSweden was wonderful. I even got to perform in a club for a prince of Malaysia,â said Christine. âHe was there with the Swedish ambassador to Malaysia and the president of Volvo and a couple of big bodyguards. I was told that I could talk to him but never to look him in the eye. I was in my twenties so I said, âo.k.â and went on playing. All of a sudden the waitress calls me over and said the prince would like to speak with me,â she said.

âThis is near the end of the evening so they cleared everybody else out,â she continued. âHe asked me to play a few songs for him, like âDonât Cry For Me Argentinaâ and some of the old show tunes. Then he asked me to his table. I was a little intimidated. Iâm not supposed to look him in the eyes but he wants to talk. He starts talked to me and Iâm not looking at him at all. I thought that was so rude so I just said âthe heck with it.â I just turned around and looked at him and said something like, âHow are you today?â And he says, âYou sing like an angel!â

Sitting behind him was the ambassador waving his arms, telling me not to look the prince in the eyes, Cheryl recalled. âI just thought he was the nicest personâlike he was kind of lonely or something. By the end of the night we were like old buds. I gave him a big hug when they all left,â she said.

Music has been a major part in Cherylâs life since she was five years old, maybe younger.
Through the years, through the happy and tough times, the love for her art has grown with her talent.