Album Notes

The Daybreak Song arrived suddenly in meditation one morning. I quickly jotted down the simple melody and lyrics before the song could fade away. In the meditation I understood that if I sang the chant daily, like a prayer, it would bring profound change to my life. It has. May it do the same for you.

I have sung Daybreak Song at gatherings in many countries, but the song also seems to travel the world without me. I was at a gathering once in the remote Peruvian Amazon and was surprised to hear children there sing Daybreak Song in their own Achuar language. Then a friend told me they had heard it sung in India, in Hindi, and another said that they had first learned it in German. When I moved to a small island in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, I met a woman who said, "Lenedra Carroll? Oh I know you. I have a gathering at my home each Sunday and we always begin with your Daybreak Song."

I have many such stories and I love that this song has a life of its own.

(This EP contains two long-form versions and nearly an hour of music.)

BIO

Singer and performer LENEDRA CARROLL grew up on a homestead in rural Alaska in the nineteen-fifties. She has sung for many heads of state and world leaders, and for audiences in over a dozen countries. She has sung at the State of the World Forum, at the Vatican for Pope John Paul II, and at the Nobel Peace Prize concert in Oslo, Norway.

Ms. Carroll is also an accomplished businesswoman, a respected author and a leading humanitarian. Her television appearances include Oprah Winfrey, The Today Show, and Good Morning America. Her work has been heralded by the likes of Gloria Steinem, Alice Walker, and Deepak Chopra.

Her CD Beyond Words is a powerful collection of haunting beauty and strength, described by Gloria Steinem as "a simple and spontaneous combustion that is, indeed, beyond words, beyond genre, and beyond wonderful."