Album Notes

Her voice is "sweet as a jazz bird, then bold like an R&B lioness in love." Her music is freeing and her performance passionate, moving, even purifying... just like water, the title of her debut CD project. "like|water" washes its listeners with soul stirring lyrics, liberating melodies, and singer/songwriter Chanda Rule's velvet voice.

Born in between the off beats, and bump and grind of the Disco/Funk-Era in the Windy City, Chanda has been weaving stories, humming melodies, and harmoniously bending words since her childhood.

Inspired to sing professionally with nothing but shower concerts and a few school choir stints of preparation she embarked on a musical journey that has taken her from small towns in Illinois and Kentucky, to international venues in Milan, Berlin and Amsterdam.

The mystery and power lacing her music?

"I believe I am the Creator's instrument. Music is my truth."

Chanda began her professional career as an artist in musical theater, appearing in a variety of productions, from Shakespeare in the Park in New Jersey, to Hair, The Musical in Europe. She regularly performs with jazz drummer Victor Jones, has sung as a guest artist along side internationally acclaimed musicians Mino Cinelu and John Benitez, recently opened for India.Arie at Chicago's Peace Jam, legendary recording artist Angela Bofill at New Jersey's Summer in the Zone jazz festival, and also opened for Grammy award winning recording artist Amel Larrieux at The Au Bar and Jazz Club in New York. Her love of performing arts led her to compose music for several dance companies and post-modern dance videos that aired on the Manhattan Networks. Chanda was also invited to attend and perform at the first Universal Sacred Music conference at Peace Village in New York, is co-creating a world fusion music project with traditional Gaelic musicians in Ireland, and has toured Germany, Switzerland, and Italy singing and leading workshops on the African roots of Gospel music with the Golden Gospel Singers. Her debut album, "like|water" was released in January 2005.