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Bio
In
1948 a little girl 7 years old came to America with her mother
and father on the Queen Mary with hundreds of other refugees.
Nearing the shores of New York, she saw a tiny statue in the water.
Everyone on the boat became very quiet and started softly singing
prayers of gratitude, kneeling down to kiss the ground. The little
girl couldn’t stop looking at the beautiful statue. As they got
closer and closer, it seemed as if this beautiful woman with a
wand so tall and strong was smiling at her and was saying something
good to her. It reminded her of when her father threw her over
the barbwire fence in 1944 at the Swiss border, looking up to
the heavens he said, “Save my daughter and she will always serve
you”. This little girl always knew in her heart her destiny had
been chosen.
Believing
fervently that we are all connected, visionary Cantor Estherleon,
for many years, has been bringing all faiths and cultures together
for a deeper understanding of each other.
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Poverty
has a particularly strong meaning to Estherleon. A child Holocaust survivor,
she has endured the poverty of food, shelter, safety and thoughts when
she was on the run form the Nazi's for the first 4 years of her life finally
escaping in 1944 to Switzerland. Sheltered by nuns in convents through
parts of this period, she didn't realize until now that the DNA of the
church music would ultimately play a big role in the Jewish music she
sings as a cantor. Her gifted and compassionate voice has been chronicled
in numerous testimonials.
Life's challenges saw her rise from welfare to riches, which she gave
up, after a family tragedy. She became a Cantor, a female in a male's
world. She survived that, then decided "Against all odds" (CCN News) to
take her administering to the people, founding 3 storefront spiritual
reading rooms for all people, religions and cultures, in the process creating
Beth Shirah (House of Song). She has always seen challenges as a gift
to the higher spirit echoing the survival of her earliest years. She is
now welcomed by the Buddhist at the Hsi Lai Temple, the Baha'i Faith the
Braille Institute and healing centers. She tirelessly administers to the
sick through her voice, as a volunteer Para-Chaplain at a renowned hospital
in Los Angeles. Voices of Hope is her dedication to the immense insurmountable
challenges to see the end of poverty in her lifetime. Her music, and poetry
will bring people into the fold of caring, through nurturing and compassion.
Her determination is unshakable.
"The children are our future, what better way to receive than to give
them life through our deepest caring. Their poverty is our poverty, and
our shame. We have to listen to their voices of hope"
For more information contact her manager, Ivor Pyres at: estheo@HourRecords.com
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