Our Songleaders

The Oakland Youth Chorus, a part of Oakland Interfaith Choir, introduces gospel, secular and world music to young people, ages 5 to 17. The choir first started in 1997, and now includes over two dozen members from diverse ethnic, religious, and cultural backgrounds. https://www.oigc.org/youth

My mission is to help you free your voice and life. I am here to help you to connect more deeply with yourself and others in a playful, supportive space as you explore voice work, grief, ancestral healing, adoption wounds, creativity, music, sound healing, and more. Reach out if you want to be free and create a life aligned to your highest joy and creative expression.

https://phoenixsongmusic.com/

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Jonah Matranga (aka onelinedrawing) has helped create a few genres, but never really fit into one. From the pioneering post-hardcore emo of Far and New End Original to onelinedrawing's lofi solo adventures, along with wildly diverse collaborations with Thursday, Kimya Dawson, Deftones, Fort Minor, Lupe Fiasco, Jawbox, Matt Nathanson, and lots more. Jonah has also toured with most of those artists, along with everyone from Jimmy Eat World to Frank Turner to Sepultura. Jonah has also been doing sliding-scale merch, unique recordings, crowdfunding, and crowd-sourced patronage since way before any of that was a thing. Simply put, Jonah / onelinedrawing has been at the heart of a whole lot.

Vernon Bush, a gifted singer, composer, and celebrated vocal coach, has been spreading the joy of singing and speaking through the power of gospel music for over two and a half decades. He recently served as the Musical Director of the Glide Ensemble at the esteemed Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco. In addition to his coaching endeavors, Vernon is also preparing to release new original music later this year.

vernonbush.com

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Tobirus Mozelle arrived on the house music scene in 2013 after moving to the SF Bay Area from North Carolina. With a background in gospel, alt. rock, accapella ensembles, and R&B he brings a soulful, funky, and brassy dynamic to the tracks he graces. He has found a home with the Moulton Music label out of Oakland/SF and it the vocalist for the nu disco/deep house crew, The SyntheTigers. He has started to garner international attention with his vocal stylings and collaborations with a litany of house djs who have remixed his tracks or featured them in prominent radio shows. He puts his heart and soul into every track he is a part of and deeply believes that "music is the essence of life!"Tobirus Mozelle arrived on the house music scene in 2013 after moving to the SF Bay Area from North Carolina. With a background in gospel, alt. rock, accapella ensembles, and R&B he brings a soulful, funky, and brassy dynamic to the tracks he graces. He has found a home with the Moulton Music label out of Oakland/SF and it the vocalist for the nu disco/deep house crew, The SyntheTigers. He has started to garner international attention with his vocal stylings and collaborations with a litany of house djs who have remixed his tracks or featured them in prominent radio shows. He puts his heart and soul into every track he is a part of and deeply believes that "music is the essence of life!"

https://soundcloud.com/tobirusmozelle

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Our Big Sing organizing team is gathering a motley group of fabulous friends to lead us in a few wholehearted singalongs. Amongst us there are some serious musical chops (ex: Troy wrote the theme song to the Beijing Olympics) and experience curation chops (ex: Oprah said of the workshops we lead, "This is how we change the world") but mostly we're a community of friends here to sing, laugh and enjoy soulful good times.