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Aliah Selah started taking piano
lessons at 7
After 2 years - at 9 she opted out ... and secretly began to write her own
songs.
Aliah's love of piano, poetry, & the inspiration of late 60's music that spoke for the people.
Her inspiration came from her full of life bohemian art teacher
who got everyone singing folkrock songs with her
at the end of each art class - this is what lead her to begin songwriting.
This heart filled art teacher encouraged Aliah to be an artist...
to allow every experience to inspire art - with her drawing, painting, and
poetry -
to listen to her dreams and allow it all to inspire her art as her process of growth.
Aliah began to channel her emotions
into all her art projects...
and more and more of her poems lead to songs.
Aliah's songwriting awakening...
One day... Aliah dared to share a few of her intimate
songs on piano with her high school chorus teacher after
school.
As a songwriter himself, he was blown away and
began encouraging her singing & songwriting.
He
was so moved with how deeply she looked into things
with her poetic lyrics.
Yet mostly, how she let every
experience inspire a poem that lead to a song about
something she learned - from each experience.
He told her to save all her poetry for future songs.
So she kept her poems a secret “in a shoe box
under her bed” as referred to in the chorus of
the title track “Shades
Of Images”.
The
chorus of
"Shades Of Images"
was in that Shoe box.
"Shapes
taking form,
and forms making sense,
senses getting felt -
feeling taking shape in Shades of Images
inspired by... mistakes."
In
talking about her early years
of development Aliah says,
"I am eternally grateful to the
artists and teachers
who taught me to see and shape...
the invisible.
ALIAH HAS A VISION FOR HER MUSIC
THAT ALL CAME FROM THE PIANO.
One of her
upcoming CD's Bless The Water
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 The song "BLESS THE WATER" - came a week before Aliah knew that the Tibetan monks were coming to bless Barton Springs. She and Paz were able to video tape them doing that and their sandart for the video. The fragile watershed of central Texas was struggling for support against a developer who was harming the whole eco system by putting expensive home there. This song was made into a music video of the Blessing with the monks, their sand art and the spring - it was played many times on many shows for the S.O.S.cause. "LUNA, TREE OF LIFE" is a song that came whole after a dream where an ancient indian medicine man asked Aliah to thank Julia for all she had done for his ancestors who thank her as well - for taking a stand by sitting in a tree. It is about the life of Julia Butterfly Hill who lived in a Redwood tree for 2 years to help save the ancient forest. Aliah gave her a Creative Evolutionary Award and interviewed her. It will be in the first episode of their new WEB/TV Show CREATIVE EVOLTUION with Peacefarm Productions & Spiral On Productions "SWEETWATER" is the title track for the movie that airs on PBS - a coming of age film about friendship and working together through hard times. |
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ALL BEGAN WITH THE PIANO To all young musicians... learn piano and you can play all the instruments and program it all on the computer to make full arrangements of your songs. Don't wait to be discovered - discover yourself through technology and you will be lead to the next step. Seek teachers who bring out the best in you. In talking about her early years of development Aliah says, "I am eternally grateful to the artists and teachers who taught me to believe... in the invisible." |
Photos by John Jonietz
except Aliah playing at Austin Earth Day Expo by Paz Rheinstein
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