Put Your Dress Down and Sing – Memoir with a Message is about the inspiring story of GRAMMY® Winner Darlene Koldenhoven’s determination and hard work to overcome obstacles, physical challenges, and traumas to create and maintain a successful career, against all odds, as an independent vocal artist in the Hollywood entertainment industry for 40+ years and counting.​ Music gave her a life she could never have imagined.

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Darlene is known globally as the tambourine-waving choir nun in both "Sister Act" movies with Whoopi Goldberg and as the featured soprano soloist in "Yanni, Live at the Acropolis," the most popular PBS-TV Special and video (second best selling video to Michael Jackson's "Thriller.") The book includes many humorous and intriguing stories of her work with A-List celebrities as a studio singer for the likes of Pink Floyd and stage background singer–Paul McCartney kissed her on the cheek onstage at the Hollywood Bowl. Nothing could have prepared her for That! Mid-career, she made her way to the front of the stage as a successful indie artist herself on the Billboard Charts at #4 and #8 in 2021. A plethora of great stories: triumphant, endearing, and funny. ​

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