TRACK LISTING
1. Who Knows Where The Time Goes
2. Overjoyed
3. Wave
4. Your Spirit Lingers
5. I Hear Music
6. Everything You Were Meant To Be
7. This Nearly Was Mine
8. Please Send Me Someone To Love
9. Dance Of Time
10. Land Of Galilee
11. Song For The Ages
12. Freedom Is A Voice
RELEASE INFORMATION
A native of Chicago’s Hyde Park, Charleston grew up in a home filled with music – her father was an English professor and jazz enthusiast, while her mother sang and taught voice. At age six, she met legendary composer and bandleader Duke Ellington and knew then, instinctively, that music would be a major part of her life. After graduating Juilliard with a BM and MM in music, she studied journalism at NYU, going on to work as a producer with Diane Sawyer at ABC’s PrimeTime Live, contributing to stories that won her Emmy and Peabody Awards.
Rondi’s training as a journalist strengthened her storytelling skills, something with which her audiences and critics continue to connect enthusiastically. Praised by Hot House Magazine for “the most memorable new songs to come from a jazz singer since Abbey Lincoln,” she has integrated her journalistic and musical skills and emerged as a gifted storyteller of indelibly poignant and authentic themes drawn from her own real life experiences, which reverberate with wide and diverse audiences. Downbeat Magazine raves, “Rondi Charleston is one of those rare artists for whom a song’s meaning is as important as its melody. Her personal, thought-provoking, original songs slow the heartbeat and raise the mental senses with a documentarian’s acuity.”