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(Biography)
Jay Emmanuel
an extraordinary pop
Latino singer with incredible vocal range and control. Jay Emmanuel
was
born in the Island of Puerto Rico where he was singing and performing since
he was six years old.
As an adolescent Jay Emmanuel reached millions of
Latin American viewers when he appeared as a pop singer on many Chicago, New Jersey, Miami and
South America.
Jay Emmanuel’s music interpretations include soft rock ballads, Romantic
boleros, up tempo dance and some tropical salsa music. He has also studied
music and performed European music and Broadway show tunes. Jay Emmanuel
says, “I am creating some thing new with my pop background and my formal
conservatory music background to project not only to Latin American
audiences, but my goal is to merge into the American Market". The plan is to
reach audiences ranging from Latin America to the United States, Europe,
Japan and Korea.
One of the CDs
presented in his web-site in character, has music ranging from pop rock
ballads, dance music, tropical and romantic. The acoustic guitar, heard on
some of the songs, gives the tunes a Spanish and Latin quality. One song in
particular features only acoustic guitar and voice, and has a Brazilian bossa nova feel.
He is presently
working in a New Age Musical project Sound Track for “The Musical King
David,” base on the bible story. This new project has allowed
Jay Emmanuel to show his amazing artistic style range from pop into “New Age Music.” The
music from “The Musical King David” has been composed by ones of the most
successful Russian composers and choreography Mr. Yuly Zorov. The music
director and musical arrangements by Yuri Krylov. The musical arrangements,
direction and sound track is being made in St. Petersburg Russia. In this
sound track Jay Emmanuel is singing in English and in Hebrew.
The producers are
currently in the process of presenting this musical in Russia, Europe and
eventually coming to Broadway, New York City.
 He has performed live
on Channel 47 at the Hunts Point Multiserve Center for and audience of over
16,000 people in September 14, 1998 celebrating it thirtieth anniversary.
He performed in September 27, 1998 for “La Gran Fiesta Latina,”for an
audience of about 15,000 thousand people at the Meadow Flushing Park,
sponsored by Governor Pataki, for Spanish Heritage Month, which was covered
by most of the TV networks. He performed for the Association of
Entertainment & Critics (ACE) at the Latin Quarter in Manhattan, N.Y.C. He
was also nominated as pop musical revelation of the year by the A.C.E. in
1998.
He was a special guest
pop artist and performed with the Pan American Symphony Orchestra at Merkin
Concert Hall on February 17, 1999. He was special guest pop artist for
the “Multicultural Peace Oriented Show at the United Nations in 1999. The
Institute of Culture of Puerto Rico in New York has given Jay Emmanuel
in
1998 and 2000 the awards “Pop Singer of the Year.” He has acted in TV
commercials for Con Edison and Levi Strauss as well as doing performances at
Beacon theatre, Town Hall and Symphony Space New York.
Jay Emmanuel has been
studying the power and effect that sound and music has in our lives.
He has been studying and experimenting for over 9 years about the direct
link between different parts of the body and the effect of specific sounds.
He believe that specific sounds, music and frequencies of vibration produced
by the human voice as well as by some instruments can produce healing
effects in the body, mind and the spirit. He said that Healing through
sound goes back as far as Atlantis where the power of sound was combined
with the power of crystal. He also mentioned that many ancient
cultures recognize the importance of music and sound as a healing power.
The Priest from ancient Egypt, the Native American Hopi Indians, the Tibetan
Priest used vowel sounds to resonate their energy center of the body known
as charkas in order to promote healing. The main reason Jay Emmanuel
speaks about his research is because he believes that the power of music and
vibrations can bring healing and harmony to the people and to all the
elements of Mother Earth Spirit in this planet.
Jay Emmanuel has great
respect and admiration for Pythagoras of Samos (Greek Philosopher, Musician,
Mathematician, and Musical Doctor) (560 – 480 B.C.) for his amazing
definition about the Power of vibrations. Jay Emmanuel is basing his
research about the power of music, sounds and vibrations in many of
Pythagoras’s principles. Pythagoras said that he knew the effects of
vibration, sound and conceived the Universe as a vast musical instrument.
He called The Sacred Sound of the Universe, “The Music of the Spheres.”
Pythagoras said that through vibration comes motion, through motion comes
color and through color come tone. The Universe is founded and
governed by laws of music.
Every word we speak,
sound we make, either creates an harmonious Resonance within us and
around us. The sound touches every fiber of our being, balance us and
tunes our energy and physical body. Sound creates and sound arranges.
The human body is a living entity of vibrations and wavelengths. Sound
is a tool for transformation. Sound can penetrate any substance, move
molecules, and rearrange realities. Sound is another way to carry
information because is part of light. 
“My concept about
music is the following: I believe that everything in the universe is energy
and it is in constant vibrational state. We are part of that universal
energy. Music is a way of expressing those higher dimensions… My goal
is to, through my singing, music projects and research, connect to the
higher dimensions of energy … and project it to people through my soul…and
touch them and bring them a moment of happiness, love, peace and harmony.”
He goes on to say that, although the planet is beautiful, the world can be
very negative and that people need to get out and experience some thing
beautiful beyond the negative media and such. This philosophy is reflected
in some of the lyrics of the songs Jay Emmanuel’s sing. He also
explains that he likes to sing lyrics about resolution, versus unresolved
issues. “Basically” I’ am trying to crate a new style, which is the
language of creative harmonious sounds and music in order to touch all
cultures in the world. Jay Emmanuel appears to be a rising new start
bringing to the millennium a new light, new concepts and ideas for peace,
harmony and healing consciousness through his powerful music and philosophy.
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