Carmella Baynie, award winning vocalist and composer, caught a generations attention with her first hit single ''Sweet Silence'', which charted in Australia, Southeast Asia and Japan during the mid 90ʼs. Throughout Carmellaʼs accomplished career, she opened for artists as diverse as Eartha Kitt, Daryl Braithwaite, Jenny Morris, Tex Perkins, Paul Capsis and composed for Top 10 artists from China, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong. Carmella performed sacred music in Latin and Aramaic as a soloist from the age of seven years old. An initiated practitioner of meditation (Osho) and yoga (ashtanga, sivananda yoga, kiyoga) since 1984 and was introduced to Bhakti Yoga and chanting in 1993. She became an accredited yoga teacher, attaining her teacher training in South India in the Sivananda tradition. Carmella also became an accredited voice teacher in 2002.
As Carmellaʼs commitment to the practice of Bhakti intensified, she was initiated into bhakti in the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition. Carmella developed a teaching model called Voice in Yoga, assisting people from all walks of life, to awaken to the sacred within, and to release the inner voice. This practice is being utilised and taught in several countries. Carmella teaches actors, singers, yoga teachers, religious and fitness instructors, teachers, coaches and anyone for whom the voice is the definitive tool of the trade, using meditation and yoga as the basis for her training.
Carmella holds a particular passion for working in the field of interfaith – finding and sharing the commonality between all traditions. Carmella has been teaching yoga and meditation to the Muslim community in Western Sydney with Auburn City Council, for the past four years. In 2002 Carmella was invited to study Classical Indian music in Vrindavan and Mayapur in India. She is now one of Australiaʼs most popular and sought after kirtan singers, travelling the world, performing and running her innovative workshops, particularly in Asia, China, India, New Zealand and the USA.
SINGLES
Sweet Silence
| 24 APR '94 | #95 |
References
http://www.carmellavoice.com/biography/
http://top100singles.blogspot.com.au/
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