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Darlene Koldenhoven is a GRAMMY® Award Winner with 3 GRAMMY® nominations and the first inductee into the IMC’s Indie Music Hall of Fame presented at the GRAMMY Museum®. Darlene’s The Grand Piano Spa: Legacy (10/22/21) debuted #8 on the Billboard Classical Crossover Album Charts (week of November 6) its first week out and has already won several awards. It is the sequel to her first solo piano album, The Grand Piano Spa (5/14/21) that Hot Shot Debuted at #4 on Billboard’s Classical Crossover Albums Chart (week of May 29, 2021); winner of the Gold Medal for Best Classical Crossover Composer by Global Music Awards (8/7/21); and Best New Age Song & Best Easy Listening Song from IMC Awards. (9/5/21) and more. Darlene is known worldwide as the featured soprano soloist singing “Aria” in the PBS TV Special and Video, Yanni, Live at the Acropolis seen by over 1.5 billion television viewers and millions more now on YouTube. She has several #1 albums on the ZMR International Radio Charts. Her biggest-award winning albums are Color Me Home that debuted #1 and won a stunning 20 awards and 35 nominations, including ZMR’s Best New Age Vocal Album 2018; two piano with instrumentation albums: Chromatones that won COVR’s Music of the Year 2019 and Tranquil Times IMA’s Best New Age Album 2012; and Heavenly Peace ZMR’s Best Holiday Album 2008. Other GRAMMY® Winners Tom Scott, Wouter Kellerman, Ricky Kej, Charlie Bisharet, Brent Fischer and nominees David Arkenstone and Rocky Dawuni appear on her albums released on her label, TimeArt® Recordings, that are heard all over the world including SiriusXM, Pandora, Spotify, YouTube and hundreds more worldwide radio stations. Her instrumental Chromatones and Tranquil Times are played in treatment rooms of massage and healing practitioners and are on rotation on the CARE Channel Network in hospitals and hospices worldwide. SkyLounge Magazine, the worldwide exclusive membership and in-flight luxury magazine has Darlene on the cover of the autumn 2021 issue with 11-page interview. Darlene’s voice of many genres has sung on over 1,000 recordings in film, television, albums, commercials and charitable causes internationally. She has sung on a plethora of artists’ albums including Pink Floyd, Barbra Streisand, Whitney Houston, Neil Young, Celine Dion, Rod Stewart, Kenny Loggins, and as lead soprano for Clare Fischer’s 2+2, the source of her GRAMMY® Award and 3 nominations in Best Jazz Vocal Performance by Group. Before the pandemic, Darlene traveled to India three times to be a featured live performer with GRAMMY® Winner Ricky Kej before the Queen of Bangalore and thousands of fans, including a TEDx Talk in an effort to raise awareness of climate change and humanitarian causes that she holds dear. Darlene has performed also as soloist with David Byrne at the Royal Albert Hall with London’s Royal Philharmonic; the Chicago Symphony; on the Academy Awards® with the late Robin Williams, and most notably, as the tambourine-waving choir nun with Whoopi Goldberg in both Sister Act films where off-camera she was the production vocal coach, music director and rehearsal pianist during their choreography rehearsals. Even Olympic athletes like Olympic Silver Medalist and US Champion Figure Skater Sasha Cohen perform to her music. Born and raised in Chicago, Darlene’s formal piano training that began at age 9 made the piano her closest friend. In spite of losing the use of her right hand for five years due to a horrible accident twenty years ago that even after reconstructive surgery left one finger deformed, she forged on, regaining most of her piano prowess where she now performs her elegant solo piano concerts with her newest albums. Darlene reads music and improvises, playing many styles – Classical, New Age, Jazz, Rock, Pop, Musical Theater. She accompanies herself on piano or keytar-synth in her live vocal concerts; played harpsichord and piano with orchestras; and on synth and vocals has accompanied other vocalists or instrumentalists on their live concert tours. Ms. Koldenhoven holds a Master’s degree in voice and Bachelors in Music Education from Chicago Conservatory College and has authored an educational book with 7 instructional CDs titled, Tune Your Voice: Singing and Your Mind’s Musical Ear endorsed by faculty from Juilliard to American Idol, Berklee, NYU. She is a credentialed voice teacher and certified Integrated Listening Systems sonic therapist who helps people overcome dis-ease by using her therapeutic music and unique listening techniques in her private practice as well as her healing music concerts and workshops internationally. She writes a column for In the Key Magazine titled “The Prescription is Music.” Born and raised in Chicago, Darlene lives in Los Angeles, California with her singing rescue dog, Poochini.