Album Notes

Susan Cantey (Macintyre) was born in Aberdeen Scotland in 1950, the daughter of two mathematicians: Archibald and Sheila Macintyre. The family immigrated to the United States in 1959 when both parents were offered positions at the University of Cincinnati. In 1974, Susan had a dramatic encounter with Jesus Christ and became a “born again” Christian. She began writing Christian songs and produced an album of her work in 1975. That fall, Susan pursued an opportunity to go to college and, in 1978, she completed two degrees: a B.A. in mathematics and a B.S. in secondary education. She graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with honors in mathematics. In 1983 she completed her master’s degree in mathematics for teachers. Song writing took a back seat to family and work.

Susan’s song writing career was suddenly revived when she met her second husband, David Cantey, in the summer of 2000. He challenged her to start writing again. David writes short stories (among many other things!) and is Susan’s primary song editor and collaborator.

Susan has been teaching mathematics at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati Ohio since 1978. She also taught freshman calculus for the University of Cincinnati for twenty three years but retired in order to spend more time developing her song writing craft. In the summer she teaches math content to special education teachers. They are the true heroes of education. They have unbelievable stories to tell!

Susan is a member of BMI. She performs her songs at local churches, retirement homes and coffee shops, fills in on piano occasionally, and gives away hundreds of CD’s as part of her ministry of sharing God’s love through music. Her Merry Christmas CD was originally sold exclusively at "Everybody's Records" in Cincinnati Ohio for the 2005 Christmas Season. It has been re-mixed and the new version is now available at CDBaby. Her original Christian Music will be available at CDBaby in 2007. For now, it is given away free wherever Susan performs. You can listen to and download some of these "free" songs at www.Soundclick.com. "Small Things" won two blue diamond awards in 2005.

Susan is the proud mother of Scott Gaines, an electrical engineer who is returning to school next year to become a patent attorney. Scott and his wife Jean, their three children Shelby, Natalie, Matthew, and a dog named Rocky live about a mile and a half from Susan. The grandchildren, along with David’s daughter Lizzie, have sleep-overs almost every Friday night when a great time is had by all!

In February 2006 Susan released her first secular CD in response to her students asking if they could download a song she wrote for them: "The Sea of Calculus". She decided to make an entire CD available on CD Baby at a low price.

For information, write to Susan Cantey at 6302 Girard Avenue, Cincinnati Ohio 45213 or email Susan at scantey@cinci.rr.com.