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  Inspired by a True Story, produced & performed by Grammy® Award-Winning vocalist Darlene Koldenhoven is a heartwarming, inspiring collection of 10 songs & compositions dedicated to uplift your spirits and get you into a positive, refreshed and relaxed mood . . . a restorative journey for your true story.
  
  All pieces were written by Darlene except her collaboration with Larry Steelman on "The Who I am in Me,” and “The Prayer" by David Foster & Carol Bayer-Sager. The album opens with the up-tempo pop “Kiss a Rainbow of Love,” followed by contemporary jazz, gospel, and folk-rock flavors, each piece gradually changing in tempo and mood through classical crossover to the final ambient piece, “Inspirial,” a 12 minute meditative instrumental composition.
  
  Darlene sings all the lead and background vocals on the album, except two songs where she is joined by her Young Vocal Artists Choir and studio singer friends. Employing her keyboard prowess, Darlene arranged, programmed, and performed all 10 pieces on the album except the song she wrote with Steelman, who programmed and performed the rhythm section of the track, with Darlene on the orchestral and ambient portions. Mike Miller played all the beautifully creative solo and rhythm guitar work throughout the album and Pedro Eustache wonderfully played the world woodwinds on “Infinite Voice.”
  
  Each piece in the album develops the overall story of the unifying themes of positive self-discovery, universal inclusiveness and spiritual awareness to blissful inner peace. Delving deeper are the interesting back-stories that prompted Darlene to include and create the songs for Inspired by a True Story. For example, Darlene arranged and sang live on-camera, “The Prayer” in one of television’s most popular soap operas, The Young and the Restless, and also sang on the original version in the Warner Brothers Animation Quest for Camelot where it won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Academy Award and a Grammy Award. More stories for each song appear on Darlene’s website.
  
  Inspired by a True Story is more than just an album of songs with a positive message, but a musical way to joyfully help us be in touch with our own true story and remind us in difficult times how we are all part of the truth of God in our universe and tap into this emotionally safe and nurturing environment through music.
  
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