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How To Sing the Indescribable

Our Music Editor shares her discovery of a stunning vocal artist who has gone beyond words.

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Celia Chavez
Mar 01, 2024
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Several years ago and nearly seven thousand miles away in Istanbul, Turkey, I stepped out of the historic church-turned-mosque, the Hagia Sophia, to hear an otherworldly melody soaring out from a minaret’s loudspeakers high above the building. The sound caught me by surprise, and at first it was chilling. A high pitched voice wa…

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aka BABILONIA • Music Creator • Session/Touring Singer • Educator • Poet • Music Editor / Columnist at Womancake Magazine • Lover of harmony in all its forms
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