Heavenly Peace is the premier holiday music recording by Grammy® Award-winning vocal and keyboard artist, Darlene Koldenhoven, best known as the featured soprano in the Yanni, Live at the Acropolis video seen by over 1.5 billion people worldwide.

DARLENE KOLDENHOVEN
. . . is critically-acclaimed for her soaring, angelic, five-octave range as well as for the depth of expression with which she blesses her lyrics. She has a magnificent sense of musicality, and is a true Renaissance talent:composer, arranger, keyboardist, programmer, engineer, and vocalist. In addition to her spotlight appearance in the triple-platinum video Yanni, Live at the Acropolis, Koldenhoven received a Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Performance by a duo or group in 1986; was one of the singing nuns in and real-life choir director for the hit films "Sister Act" (DVD release in October 2001) and "Sister Act II;" performed on the Academy Awards telecast for the Oscar-nominated song "Blame Canada" with Robin Williams; is heard on the film soundtrack CD "Shrek"; sang with Celine Dion in September's nationally televised concert "Tribute to America," performing on the David Foster-Tommy Mottola version of "God Bless America" to honor its citizens during these troubled times; and just finished contributing to Barbra Streisand's Christmas CD.

HEAVENLY PEACE
. . . by Darlene Koldenhoven is distributed nationally and available in all mainstream chain music and bookstores as well as at select New Age and spiritual bookstores, gift shops, and internet e-tailers; it can also be ordered at www.darlenekoldenhovn.com. HEAVENLY PEACE is a lush, semi-classical collection of ten songs that features unique arrangements of four traditional carols, three original Koldenhoven seasonal compositions and three non-holiday spiritual tracks including Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Pie Jesu," Michel Colombier's "Emmanuel" and much more.

Robert Newman, Musik International - 2001