Kalyani Marsh, 60
Grape-picker, caregiver, massage therapist, jewelry maker, lover of wide open spaces, future artist.
In a clear and pure soprano, Kalyani Marsh sings of peace, light, gratitude, joy and the journey of spirit.
Voice twines with guitar, sometimes piano, or both, in her original compositions. Marsh has loved music and singing her whole life, discovering and performing in the Minneapolis music scene as a teenager. In her 20s, she felt empowered by Indian classical dance. “It taught me, through the discipline and intention, that I could become a channel for energy,” Marsh recalls.
She bounced around the country and the world, and started writing songs in the late 1990s as catharsis. “That’s how it starts, usually. Your music is your medicine for yourself,” Marsh says. “I would sing myself lullabies.” She recorded her first CD in 2002, while living in the Bay Area. In Hawai’i soon after, Marsh found herself singing in isolated places. “I would have this incredible experience of nature listening to me,” she recalls. “It was so alive!”
That’s when songs started coming in dreams. One morning, in that sweet liminality between sleep and wake, Marsh heard a voice. “I’m sure it was the Christ, speaking to me, yelling,” she recalls. “He wanted to imprint a message upon me: Be fulfilled on your path!”
She started listening to A Course in Miracles. The spiritual study program “was undoing some part of my ego,” Marsh says. “I learned that I can create, not from misery, but from wholeness and joy.”
Evolving again, Marsh, hit the road, alighting in Nevada City after listening to KVMR Radio. “I wanted to live in a beautiful place where I could be around people and share music.” She arrived with a newly purchased Taylor guitar and $1,000. Since then, she has settled in Rough and Ready. Some of the “beautiful connections” she has formed included a band, Kalyani and Circle Up Music; plus musical tours, playing for local spiritual congregations and, most recently, composing music for meditation. Now working on her tenth album of “song gifts,” she feels blessed to overcome her fears and pursue her passions, because time is precious.
“My songs are my teachers,” Marsh says. She hopes they would inspire self-discovery and healing in others.
Listen to Marsh’s music:
SoundCloud.com/kalyani-marsh
Get a CD: circleupmusic@gmail.com
Of the Earth and Sky
by Kalyani Marsh
Evolving I am, open to a new beginning
I gently connect to the source of life
Dancing in light, I feel inspiration within
Dancing in light of the earth and sky.
