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Published: April 30, 2008 09:33 am
Quinton singer ready for radio performance
By Susan Brittingham
Features Editor
Once she was the solitary female in the carpentry class at Quinton High School.
Now she’s ready to join the crowd of females from Oklahoma who are in a class of their own: the class of singing sensations.
Tawana Albert, whose professional name is simply Tawana, is an up-and-coming Christian music artist who writes many of her own songs.
Even though she now lives in Houston with her husband, Tawana has never forgotten her Oklahoma roots. That’s why she’s thrilled about being on the local radio station Sunday night.
She will be interviewed by Aaron and Joe-Joe on Rock 105’s Joyful Noize Christian rock radio program from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m.
Three people very special to Tawana will be listening: her parents, Quinton residents Bobby and Marsha Adcock, and her sister, Gail Ramsey of Canadian.
“Singing has been in my heart all my life, especially Christian music,” Tawana said in an interview with the News-Capital Tuesday afternoon.
“But you know how a lot of people will tell you to go to college in case a career doesn’t happen with the music.
“Well, I did the college thing, and majored in mass communications. But I wasn’t really happy doing that. Then the Lord opened the door for me.
“I just had this feeling that God was telling me it was time to start doing something with this. I felt a prompting from the Lord, telling me to ‘quit hiding and step out and do what I tell you do.
“Then the Lord started opening doors and I began meeting contacts in Houston. Once I started really listening to the Lord and doing what He told me to do, good things began to happen with my music career.”
Tawana released a well-received Christian music CD called “Just Sing!” “For an independent artist, it’s getting quite a bit of airplay,” she said.
“One of the songs on the CD is “You Are the One” and Amy Grant’s keyboard player played the organ on that song.
“Then there’s the group White Heart, which was real popular in the late ’80s. Their bass player, Gary Lunn, played on that song as well as on “Keep Christ in Christmas,” which is a song I hope to pitch to an established artist.
“Larry Rolando, of Crosby, Stills and Nash, also played on both songs. It’s just amazing what the Lord pulled together for this project.”
Tawana said she hopes to soon be booked heavily in this section of Oklahoma, the place where she learned her Christian values and where her family still lives.
“I’ll sing just about anywhere,” she said.
“I’ll even be singing at Victory Park Baptist Church’s soup kitchen May 8. I’ll be coming without the band, but I’m really looking forward to getting to perform so close to my childhood home.”
While she’s here she hopes to share something else that she says the Lord pressed upon her heart.
“My passion is to use what God’s given me to help people,” Tawana said. “I just recently partnered with a business/ministry called covenanteyes.com. It is an internet accountability and software company and ministry.
“They do a lot more than trying to sell their software. They also help people struggle with Internet addictions and that’s something I’m very passionate about.
“Internet addictions can happen to anybody. You’d really be surprised who struggles with this. But covenanteyes can help, and they are endorsed by Focus on the Family.”
To learn more about Tawana, or to schedule a booking, visit her Web site at www.tawana.org.
Contact Susan Brittingham at 42102029 or e-mail sbrittingham@mcalesternews.com.
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