"Celebrate Life. Be present in the moment. Walk in LOVE!"

MUSIC

"Standards of Love"

There’s a heartwarming quality that floats from your speakers when blessed to hear someone singing a great song from the depths of their heart and soul. Beyond any stuffy collegiate qualifier of “standard” as appointed excellence, professional expectation or time-tested bar, it’s the delicious, authentically delivered connection of expression which bedazzles the mind and spirit of those who intently listen.

Virginia Ayers Dawson lights up a song like a white hot Hollywood movie set, avidly animating any lyric she chooses to kiss with her soaring soprano voice. The emphasis is always on the way a word or a phrase should make a listener feel via the way it makes her feel. When Virginia sings, she is completely present within each selection while we are rendered enraptured with surrender in her moment.

After lending her singular brand of musical mystique to an array of artists such as rock and roll moon howler Joe Cocker, movie music masters Lalo Schifrin and Marvin Hamlisch, and funk-jazz fusion drummer extraordinaire Ndugu Chancler’s Chocolate Jam Company (the latter’s presence on this album marking the sweetest of reunions), Dawson debuts as an artist in her own right with this inspired and long-overdue collection. Standards of Love is songs of unimpeachable caliber - caught up in the memory of love and offered up by Ayers in heartbeats syncing ours to hers…with heavenly aplomb.

- A. Scott Galloway

Worldwide Distribution - October 6, 2017

TAKE A LISTEN: https://virginiaayersdawson.hearnow.com

Available on cdBaby - iTunes - Amazon - Spotify - Dimple Records

(Autographed copy available by request via "contact Virginia" below)

JAZZed Magazine Review: http://digitaleditiononline.com/publication/index.php?i=455049&m=27630&l=1&p=1&pre=&ver=html5#{%22issue_id%22:%22448005%22,%22page%22:24}

L.A. Jazz Scene Review: http://lajazzscene.buzz/waxing-poetic-reviews/

Virginia Ayers Dawson is "VAD"

VAD's Journey

As a BMI songwriter and vocalist, Virginia enjoyed touring, recording and performing with Ahmad Jamal, Gino Vanelli, Joe Cocker, Marvin Hamlisch, George Burns, Steely Dan, Sly and the Family Stone. They are only a few with whom she has recorded and toured with nationally and internationally. Her body of work includes appearing on numerous movie soundtracks and commercial jingles.

Tidbits

VAD's Journey

Virginia completed her CD, "Standards of Love", which features many popular classic standards, as well as, a bonus track of her original composition, "Let the Love Begin". She debuted this project to a SOLD-OUT audience at Antiquite Masion Privee in Sacramento, CA on June 30, 2017.

"Standards of Love" released world-wide on October 6, 2017,

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VAD's Journey

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Virginia Ayers Dawson

As a BMI songwriter and vocalist, Virginia enjoyed touring, recording and performing with Ahmad Jamal, Gino Vanelli, Joe Cocker, Sly and the Family Stone, Steely Dan, Marvin Hamlisch, George Burns and Saint Tropez. They are only a few with whom she has recorded and toured with nationally and internationally. Her body of work includes appearing on numerous movie soundtracks and commercial jingles.

Virginia's CD, "Standards of Love", features many popular classic standards, as well as, a bonus track of her original composition, "Let the Love Begin". She debuted this project to a SOLD-OUT audience at Antiquite Masion Privee in Sacramento, CA on June 30, 2017. This long-overdue collection was released world-wide on October 6, 2017. Featured in the October issue, JAZZed Magazine states:

"Standards of Love pis a nativerovides one warm embrace after another, living up to its title in sound and vision".

The theme song for the National Alliance on Mental Illness, "NAMI Walks" was composed and recorded by Virginia. It is featured at nearly 100 annual Walk events each year.

Currently, Virginia is creating new compositions and planning a new release of "Inspirational Music". However, through jazz, classic standards, Christian and original compositions, she continues to share her vision to... "inspire uplifting consciousness and joy, through rhythm and lyrics".

Virginia calls California & Arizona home. She shares her life with husband, Marcus, and her "fur baby" dog, LoLo. Virginia's music reminds us to. . .

"Celebrate life. Be present in the moment. Walk in Love!"

S.O.W.

"Inspire uplifting consciousness and joy through rhythm and lyrics"

It doesn't matter what genre one may place me in, my vision remains the same... Inspire uplifting consciousness and joy through rhythm and lyrics. I define my personal mission as S.O.W. (Spiritual Outreach Worldwide). SOW is the pursuit of a dimension that not only inspires, but creates harmony.

"Spirituality is about a connection"

Spirituality is not religion. Spirituality does not hold us to a set of rules or traditions. Spirituality is about a connection that is available to ALL of us. In its broadest sense, spirituality may include religion for some, but still stands alone without a connection to any specific religious group. SOW's purpose is to share in that spiritual connection anchored in LOVE, peace and understanding.

”LOVE is GOD and music is the voice of LOVE"

We ALL matter on this journey called life! We're a global community and are ALL connected. I strive to connect the dots of humanity through LOVE and music. In my spirit... LOVE is GOD and music is the voice of LOVE! ...Virginia