Cynthia L. Stacey
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Cynthia L. Stacey is a North Carolina singer-songwriter and artist. Her work is influenced by her youth, which she spent at the Musa Isle Indian Village, a traditional Seminole
Indian village on the Miami River
in South Florida where she was adopted and raised. Her current home is in Highlands, North Carolina
, near the location in the Southern Appalachian Mountains
where she summered as a child. Her music is generally socially conscious.
Thea, as she is known artistically, has performed in many parts of the United States and Europe, and has opened for artists such as Richie Havens
, Peter Yarrow
of Peter, Paul, and Mary, Karen Taylor-Good
, and R. Carlos Nakai
. She is a mother, and has worked in alternative medicine as a midwife, herbalist, nutritionist, and childbirth educator. She is cofounder of the South Florida School of Midwifery, former co-owner of Mindbody Press and Evolutionary Press (subsidiaries of Findhorn Books), and worked as executive director of Resources for World Health, a group which worked with indigenous healers and medicine people. Other activities she has taken part in include leading spirituality workshops and classes, photography, essay writing.
Seminole
The Seminole are a Native American people originally of Florida, who now reside primarily in that state and Oklahoma. The Seminole nation emerged in a process of ethnogenesis out of groups of Native Americans, most significantly Creeks from what is now Georgia and Alabama, who settled in Florida in...
Indian village on the Miami River
Miami River
Miami River may refer to:Florida*Miami River , a tributary of Biscayne BayNew York*Miami River , a tributary of Lewey LakeOhio*Great Miami River, a tributary of the Ohio River*Little Miami River, a tributary of the Ohio RiverOregon...
in South Florida where she was adopted and raised. Her current home is in Highlands, North Carolina
Highlands, North Carolina
Highlands is an incorporated town in Macon County in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Located on a plateau in the southern Appalachian Mountains, within the Nantahala National Forest, it lies mostly in southeastern Macon County and slightly in southwestern Jackson County, in the Highlands and...
, near the location in the Southern Appalachian Mountains
Appalachian Mountains
The Appalachian Mountains #Whether the stressed vowel is or ,#Whether the "ch" is pronounced as a fricative or an affricate , and#Whether the final vowel is the monophthong or the diphthong .), often called the Appalachians, are a system of mountains in eastern North America. The Appalachians...
where she summered as a child. Her music is generally socially conscious.
Thea, as she is known artistically, has performed in many parts of the United States and Europe, and has opened for artists such as Richie Havens
Richie Havens
Richard P. "Richie" Havens is an African American folk singer and guitarist. He is best known for his intense, rhythmic guitar style , soulful covers of pop and folk songs, and his opening performance at the 1969 Woodstock Festival.-Career:Born in Brooklyn, Havens was the eldest of nine children...
, Peter Yarrow
Peter Yarrow
Peter Yarrow is an American singer who found fame with the 1960s folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary. Yarrow co-wrote one of the group's most famous songs, "Puff, the Magic Dragon"...
of Peter, Paul, and Mary, Karen Taylor-Good
Karen Taylor-Good
Karen Taylor-Good is an American singer-songwriter. Taylor-Good and her then-husband, Bill Taylor, started the Mesa Records label in 1982. Her first single, "Diamond in the Rough," reached the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart early that year...
, and R. Carlos Nakai
R. Carlos Nakai
Raymond Carlos “R.” Nakai is a Native American flautist of Navajo/Ute heritage.-Biography:Born Ray Carlos Nakai, in Flagstaff, Arizona, he released his first album, Changes, in 1983...
. She is a mother, and has worked in alternative medicine as a midwife, herbalist, nutritionist, and childbirth educator. She is cofounder of the South Florida School of Midwifery, former co-owner of Mindbody Press and Evolutionary Press (subsidiaries of Findhorn Books), and worked as executive director of Resources for World Health, a group which worked with indigenous healers and medicine people. Other activities she has taken part in include leading spirituality workshops and classes, photography, essay writing.
Discography
- A Chance to Live: Children’s Songs for Peace
- Planet We Ride
- Thea
- Thea & the GreenMan LIVE
- My Mother's Garden featuring Grammy AwardGrammy AwardA Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
winning Native American flutist, Mary YoungbloodMary YoungbloodMary Youngblood is a Northern California Native American flutist. She is half Aleut, and half Seminole. She has been awarded three Native American Music Awards, being the first woman to win "Flutist of the Year," which she won in both 1999 and 2000, as well as winning "Best Female Artist" in 2000...