Thomas Montgomery Bio

Thomas Montgomery is a 15-year-old vocal and instrumental musician. He expressed a strong interest in music at an early age. At about the age of 8, he sang in the Project Day Dream Choir in Birmingham, Michigan. At the same time he began playing musical instruments beginning with the cello and piano. He continued his instruction in classical piano under the instruction of Southfield, Michigan native Artra Williams (deceased) and then under the instruction of Mr. Elgie Watkins of Lansing, Michigan. At the age of 12, he began to express a strong interest in Jazz music. He started playing the saxophone and began developing his Jazz piano and improvisation skills under the direction of Ben Diaz at the Diaz School of Piano in Okemos, Michigan. Under Mr. Diaz's creative influence and encouragement, Thomas expanded his musical experience by expressing himself vocally while playing the tunes of John Legend, Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder and other great musicians. He participated in the 2010 Aquinas Summer Jazz Camp where he song a jazzy rendition of Summer Time and Come Fly with me. Thomas creative interests include performing arts. He participated and held lead roles in several stage productions such as the Wizard of Oz, Oliver, A Midnights Summer Dream, Treasure Island and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. These stage productions were hosted by Project Day Dream in Birmingham, Michigan, Lansing Children's Theater and Holt Lutheran High School. Thomas recently completed a Broadway Theater Workshop and acquired a solo role in the culminating stage production at the Lansing Wharton Center. Thomas is an honor roll student at Holt Lutheran High School where he plays the saxophone and is an active member of his high school band. His favorite subjects are Science and English. His hobbies include hanging out with his friends, listening to and playing music (he recently started playing the jazz guitar), ice-skating and playing video games. Thomas is a member of Lansing Pilgrim Rest Baptist church where he sings in the choir.

contact information: tom_montgomery99@yahoo.com

William Crenshaw Bio

William F. Crenshaw, Jr. is the youngest of six children born to Rev. William & Mrs. Allie Crenshaw. William was introduced to Christ at an early age and attended St. Matthew African Methodist Episcopal Church under the leadership of the late Rosa Lee Porter. It is there where his gift was recognized at the age of 4 and later cultivated by Evangelist Suddie Holloway. William has been singing God's praises for over 3 decades. He has sang with several choirs, groups, etc. He has appeared on the taping of the Bobby Jones Show, and has opened for several gospel artists such as Dorinda Clark Cole, Yolanda Adams, Tonex, Twinkie Clark, The Jackson Southernaires, and more. Hailed as Lansing's own "Prince of Praise & Worship", William gives all the praise and glory to God for the anointing and call upon his life. William is the proud father of 4 beautiful children: William III, Christian, Mariah, and Elisha. William is a member of Mt. Zion "All Nations" Bible church under the leadership of Pastor H.Levi McClendon, III, where he serves as Praise & Worship Leader. William is the President/C.E.O. of W.F.C. Ministries. Stay tuned for more on the dynamic singing ministry of this anointed man of God!

Dance for Life Bio

Dance For Life of Lansing, Michigan was started in June of 2004 by current President, Attorney Charles Ford. The Mission of the group is to increase the awareness and instruction of dance in the Greater Lansing area in three (3) primary dance categories, Ballroom, Chicago Step and Hustle (Line Dance). Classes for Adults are held every Monday from 7:00 p.m. until 11:00 p.m. at the Players Club inside the Sky Lanes Sports Complex, 5141 S. Martin L. King, Blvd., Lansing, MI 48933. Ballroom classes are from 7:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m., Chicago Step Classes are from 8:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m., Hustle classes are from 9:00 p.m. until 9:45 p.m., and Open Dance from 9:45 p.m. until 11:00 p.m.

Dance For Life has well over 40 members who participate on Mondays and perform at various functions throughout the Greater Lansing area. One of our most significant accomplishments is our Youth Program which has been a part of our group for the past five (5) years and practice and perform between May and September. Youth practice sessions are held Mondays from 5:30 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. at the Black Child and Family Institute where the youth are taught Hustles, Ballroom and Chicago Step. Our Youth Group consists of over 30 participants and is asked each year to perform at various community events. Last year the Dance For Life Youth Group was featured in several local newspapers and asked by the Lansing Mayor's Office to perform at the State Capitol in honor of the City celebrating 150 years. With the many request to perform this year, Dance For Life is looking forward to an exciting 2010.

The Dance For Life major Committees and Lead Coordinators are:

Instruction & Music	Youth Development	Event Planning
Charles Ford	Kindra Jackson	Celia Henderson
Henry Jame	Catrina Adams	Darleen Manns
Melissa Gomes	Jamari Walker	Rose Henderson
Duncan Dungey	Joyell Lewis	Brenda WIlliams
Larry Tucker		Lakeeya Dotson

Contact Information:

Telephone: (517) 487-3439, Fax: (517) 485-4764

E-mail: cfordlaw@sbcglobal.net

Website: danceforlife.me

Myspace: myspace.com/danceforlifewithcford

"Let's Make Dance a Way of Life."                          

Developing and Nurturing Community Empowerment (D.A.N.C.E) Bio

D.A.N.C.E. which is an acronym for Developing And Nurturing Community Empowerment, is a non-profit 501(c) 3 organization founded in 2007, by three Michigan State University students. Since being founded, D.A.N.C.E., Inc. has grown to reach out to youth in Lansing, Detroit, and Baldwin, Michigan. D.A.N.C.E. is dedicated to reaching out to youth (ages 2+) and their families through the performing arts. D.A.N.C.E. participipants are engaged in community service, mentoring, and educational enrichment opportunities.

Our mission is as follows: At D.A.N.C.E., we believe that performing arts is essential to a healthy society, demonstrating the endless possibilities for human expression and potential, and facilitating communication within and across cultures.

D.A.N.C.E. not only teaches children of the community performing arts, but also gives them a mentor to address their concerns and needs, and inspires others to become active within the community.

By providing services such as, Adult and Children's Competitive Dance, liturgical, drama, vocal and instrumental music, poetry, mentoring, community service, and homework help, D.A.N.C.E. enhances the infrastructure for creation, education, and counsel.

As the performing arts are very expensive hobbies to pursue. D.A.N.C.E., Inc. seeks to provide high quality, low-cost training to the youth in our communities. Our aim is that anyone who wants to dance should be able to regardless of financial circumstances! D.A.N.C.E. offers recreational and competitive training in ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, liturgical, hip hop, baton twirling, pom, cheerleading, and acrobatics. D.A.N.C.E., Inc. is proud to be the home of S.T.A.R.S. (Students Taking Active Roles in Society) Dance Company which is national award winning traveling competition team. S.T.A.R.S. Dance Co., most recently brought home Platinum 1st Place Awards from the Showstopper Dance Competition in Columbus, OH. D.A.N.C.E., Inc. is also the home of the AAU Illinois State Cheer Champions, the S.T.A.R.S. Cheer All-Stars, a competitive cheerleading program which began in January of 2010. The S.T.A.R.S. Cheer All-Stars will go on to compete at the AAU Junior Olympics in Virginia Beach, Virginia in August.

For more info, please contact us at 313-820-9733, 517-488-1310, or
everyonelovesdance@yahoo.com
Changing the world one D.A.N.C.E. at a time!
www.everyonelovesdance.com

Mizz Reality Bio

Shanell Henry, a female gospel recording rap artist from the Capitol City Lansing, Michigan known as "Mizz Reality" expressed a profound interest in the art of rap music at an early age.

Mizz Reality has released three full length gospel albums under independent record label: Az One Entertainment, owned by both her and her husband.

Mizz Reality has appeared on National television and many venues from churches, conventions, conferences, schools, youth homes, prisons, and festivals. She took first place in a semi-finals competition in Chicago Illinois for the "Exalting Him" Talent showcase, which later moved to Nashville Tennessee to TBN where she placed in the top ten.

Mizz Reality has opened up for well-known artists such as: Vickie Winans, Yolanda Adams, T-Bone, Grits, Group One Crew, Canton Jones, 116 Clique, and Ki-Ki Sheard to name a few.

Living her purpose in God, Mizz Reality respectfully aspires to preserve the art of hip-hop for future generations, in a holy way. As an independent artist she continues to press, evangelizing through word, testimony and song reaching out to those who have an ear to hear giving God all the glory, honor and praise. Just keeping it real, enjoying life being a Christian, and being bold about her life in Christ! Seeking Him first and His righteousness!

www.mizzreality.com
www.myspace.com/mizzreality
email: azoneent@yahoo.com

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All In Awe

Worship Without Words

Heather Taylor-Livas Founder of Worship Without Words .....
Worship Without Words is a Community-Based Praise Dance Group that was founded by Heather Taylor-Livas in 2007. The group was created with a vision to cultivate the talent of youth and young women of all ages, faiths and creeds.	During our short existence we"ve been blessed enough to minister through song at multiple churches, diversity programs, Wharton Center, Black Power Rallies, Ingham County Fair, Cooley Law School, Wedding ceremonies, School events, different Festivals and local Christian Plays ....
WWW choreographs spiritual ministries of dance to present to the community. We want to inspire, unite and nurture the need of healing and hope in the neighborhood. The overall aim of this ministry is to transform the words of God in a song into expressive praise movements that births a spiritual experience. An experience so explosive that people are lifted up to worship to his word! We are members from different local churches but work together as one. In short "We're Family"	Let us come and minister through dance to you! To God we give all the Glory and Honor... htlwww@gmail.com 517-410-0083

Vera Riley Bio

Webster's dictionary describes passion as any powerful or compelling feeling or emotion. If passion had a human voice, it would resonate through the vocal chords of Vera Riley. Vera has been blessed with a rare musical gift and ability to connect with all types of audiences.

Award-winning gospel artist Vickie Winans says that from the moment Vera opens her mouth, you get "goose bumps" and the hairs on your neck are raised. Vera's love for music began at an early age. Her mother taught music and introduced Vera to various music styles, including classical, jazz, the standards, and gospel. Those different styles of music would help shape Vera as a singer and would later motivate her to pursue singing professionally.

During her senior year in high school, she traveled to Chicago to compete in the NAACP Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics. She competed against hundreds of youth from across the country in the contemporary vocal category. She sang a rendition of Billie Holiday's "God Bless the Child". Vera conveyed the song in such a manner that the judging panel which included Motown legends Martha Reeves and Claudette Robinson were literally left in tears. Vera would go on to win the competition.

Vera graduated from Michigan State University with a Bachelor's of Arts in Journalism and worked as a television news producer in Lansing, Michigan and New Orleans, Louisiana all the while continuing her musical aspirations. In 2005 she auditioned and landed a leading role in the gospel musical stage play "When Love Goes Bad". She traveled across the country with the production for over a year receiving good reviews for her role as Jackie McClain, a drug addict that would bring a broken family back together.

In recent years Vera has been fortunate to share the stage as an opening act for gospel artists Vickie Winans, Micah Stampley, Rizen, and Beverly Crawford just to name a few. She can also be heard singing background on Vickie Winans latest CD.

Vera has released her maxi-single entitled "Simply Vera". The CD consist of three songs written by Vera and a rendition of Danibelle Hall's "Love Made Me Do It". The project was produced by Tyreece Guyton, minister of Music of Marvin Sapp's Lighthouse Full Life Center Church.

Nobody But Jesus
Didn't I Tell You
Call Him - Didn't I Tell You

Gospel Recording Artist LaNette Hester Bio

LaNette Hester has been singing from the time that she was eight years old where she was baptized and joined the youth choir at Corinthian Baptist Church in Hamtramck, Michigan (near Detroit, Michigan) There her aunt, who was the youth choir director began to cultivate LaNette's musical ear to recognize and sing 3 part harmony. This was only the beginning of her lifelong journey in music ministry.

LaNette is married to Randall Hester, an Elder at the Tabernacle of David Church of God in Christ, Lansing, MI. (Pastor Larry M. Trice, Jr.) and together they have 6 children. Mrs. Hester has been a praise and worship leader for over 25 years; she is currently the Praise and Worship Team leader at the Tabernacle of David Church.

"I'm Comin' Out" her debut concert in April of 2007 received an overwhelming response and helped to raise money for her c.d. project "A Piece of My Destiny", a 3 track demo. The completed project, "My Destiny" was officially released February 21, 2009. Mrs. Hester is working with a producer out of Washington, D.C, Kim Jordan of ProSounity Music Entertainment, LLC.

As a studio vocalist for several years, LaNette has done television and radio commercial jingles with Harvest Music & Sound Design of Lansing, Michigan. In addition to Mrs. Hester's rising music career, she was a finalist in the Sing Lansing Contest and sang with the Greater Lansing Symphony Orchestra at the Wharton Center in East Lansing, MI in 2001. She was the winner of the first Lansing's Search for a Star Contest 2003 and has shared the same platform with gospel greats such as Vickie Winans, Donnie McClurkin, Marvin Sapp, and Micah Stampley. Most recently LaNette was a special guest on the WDWO TV-18 station, Detroit, Michigan, where she was interviewed by National renowned gospel recording artist Evangelist Dorinda Clark-Cole. She was privileged to minister in song for the Dorinda Clark Cole Show on the TCT Network.

God has entrusted LaNette with this gift of ministry in song. She endeavors to be a yielded vessel that God can use to reach the physically & spiritually sick, hopeless and lost! When asked how she feels about the mandate that has been placed on her life, she says, "I want to always be in a position, a posture, an intimate place in God so that at anytime He can count on me to obey Him to be a blessing to Him and to His people. I want to move and flow "under the influence" of the Holy Spirit; to bring heaven's music to the nations!"

Contact Information:

LaNette Hester Ministries P.O. Box 12333 Lansing, MI 48901

Website: www.lanettehesterministries.com Email: lanette_hester@yahoo.com

For booking: Randall Hester ~ 517/282-9882 or Kim Milton ~ 517/281-1742

"My Destiny"c.d. is available at: www.cdbaby.com (search: LaNette Hester) God's World, 13533 W. 7Mile Road, Detroit, MI (313) 862-8220 Gift & Bible Center, 438 E. Edgewood, Lansing, MI (517) 882-0974 and 5819 W. Saginaw Hwy, Lansing, MI (517) 321-8711

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Where Are My Worshippers

Mustard Seed Kids Puppet Ministry of Union Missionary Baptist Church Bio

The Mustard Seed Kids were formed by Minister Sallie L. Teacher Jones, First Lady of Union Missionary Baptist Church in 1986. In the beginning, her vision was to use puppetry to teach the Word of God to children through the art of story telling.

Over the years, the ministry has grown to add other art forms including mime, dance, sign language, and multi-media presentations. Additionally, over the past 20-years, the ministry had been blessed to travel across the country teaching at the National Baptist Congress of Christian Education. Through our teachings, we have also been able to help other churches and organizations start over 35 troops.

As we look forward to over future, we are reminded of our beginning and our Motto: "If we have the faith the size of a mustard seed we can move mountains." Matthew 17:20, King James Version

Soundz of Praize Bio

Aligned with the vision statement of their church, this soul stirring and dynamic group of singers strive, with contemporary and traditional genres of praise and worship, to usher people of all social, economic, and ethnic backgrounds into a life-impacting worship experience.

Sounds of Praize Choir are comprised of several faithful members of Mt. Zion All Nations Bible Church who welcome any opportunity to minister in song. Under the direction of Kenneth Richardson, the vocal & musical renditions of Sounds of Praize reflect the best in gospel music both past & present.

This powerful music ministry was birthed as the result of the studious discipline and gracious leadership of Pastor H. Levi McClendon, III, Senior Pastor of Mt. Zion All Nations Bible Church since 1994. Mount Zion All Nations Bible Church is located at 10575 South Krepps Road in Dewitt, Michigan.

Kingz of the Mic - .KOM

Kingz of The Mic are better known as ●KOM. These two young men are on the cutting edge of the genre of Hip Hop Rap. ●KOM are revolutionary up and coming entertainers/artist with complex lyrics that provides a unique hip-hop vibe. The group started in January 2000 and has been elevating in all aspect of the music arena. Their first official release WWWelcomeBack.KOM-the mixtape has been purchased by well over 1,700 plus patrons and the numbers are still escalating. ●KOM is striving to become a nationwide name, so be on the look out for their name and music topping the Billboard Charts and setting the Hip Hop trails ablaze!

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Joseph Washington a/k/a J Money Tha TakeOva Bio

Straight from Cap city Michigan aka "Sing City", 19-Year-old Joseph Washington known as J Money Tha TakeOva to local Rap fans, is putting together his very First Mix tape Album released 2007. By his very own Recording Company "Sing City Studios", Featuring Many Local Hot Artist such as, WardSkillz, B Burna, Jay, Jimmy Flint, Baby Sosa and More, With his great style of flows and his Music Producer Sycko of Sycko Entertainment, J money will then work on His up coming solo album due to come out in the beginning of next year along with his younger Sister Naomi "Baby Ruth", also blessed with the lyrical talent will be releasing her very own Solo album of next year by Sing City Studios. J money is a graduate from Everett High School, he was more known as "The Guy With Money", which were his Rap name came from, "J Money", going to college holding a Job Having his own Business and Home by Age 18, call that Successful and blessed, not your ordinary teenager who has that goal in mind, but believe it or not, that was never his goal, His Goal? Well J Money has a different goal, And that goal, vision, Dream, Ambition is, Music, and having everyone share into his Success in the Music Industry. J Money began Rapping and writing songs at age 13, many friends and family were astounded on the way he sounded rapping and by the way he holds a conversation, in 2006 J money met a Music Producer "Dj Sycko" whom was willing to take a chance and work with him, by helping him move forward in the industry. Dj Sycko of Sycko Entertainment, the 25 year old has produced music from Grammy Award winner Javier Galvan in the Tejano Industry, Tejano Award Nominee Julia Pizano, recording Baby bash, and working with the local celebrities in the Murder Mitten such as Baby Sosa, Skrap, Sawd Off, and Many more. Sycko and J Money the two Business Partners working day and night to finish production and continue to work and release the albums of others. J money is ready for his journey and coming from a Christian Family and a Christian life, he's blessed by far. Thanking God and "LA FAMILIA" is what he calls, My Family in Spanish, are the ones that inspire him to continue and reach his vision.

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Powerlight Band Bio

Powerlight Band has been in existence since 1980. The group plays various types of music. Catch them at their best as they perform top music from Motown to Jazz, Rhythm and Blues, Pop and Contemporary. The group specializes in performing for University events, Wedding Receptions, Festivals and various Concerts. The Band also writes, arranges and produces their own original material. Currently they have a debut single called "Broked Heart". Powerlight has opened for National Acts such as The Buckinghams, Rare Earth, Najee, Sinbad, Carl Carlton and Hall & Oates.