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Gospel Music Association nominates Heavenly Night for 2 Covenant Awards (Seasonal Album & Seasonal Song of the Year), as well as Kelita for Female Vocalist of the Year! (www.gmacanada.ca) - Posted 09/16/2008
Publication from The Mississauga News: Mississauga singer and social activist Kelita is one of a few women speaking tonight at the "High Heels in High Places" dinner in Streetsville. (www.mississauga.com) - Posted 01/30/2008
Heavenly Night CD now available for download on iTunes. You can also hear 30 second sample clips from each song. Download iTunes today at www.apple.com - Posted 12/12/2007
Heavenly Night CD to be featured the week of December 3rd on UCB UK. United Christian Broadcasters Limited is a Christian media ministry formed to promote the good news of the Kingdom of God. (www.ucb.co.uk) - Posted 11/21/2007
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Thirteen songs for Christmas from the talented Canadian singer/songwriter Kelita, who combines Christian music themes with a polished country music sound. She has a strong, confident voice, all the charisma of a Shania Twain, and the conviction of a woman of faith. This album has traditional favorites, like “O Little Town of Bethlehem” and “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”, mostly in the markedly untraditional, but not unpleasing, arrangements by Gord Lemon. The standouts are “Silent Night” and “Let’s Make a Baby King” (Where the Afro-Gospel sound shows off all facets of the artist’s vocal ability). And there’s Celine Dion’s “Don’t Save if All for Christmas Day,” which sounds as good as if Dion herself were singing it.
Arts Forum – Canada’s Magazine of the Art & Ideas
"OK - so here we go again... going through songs from a 'Canadian' Christmas project. Typically we experience many tracks with good intentions, but short on polish. Kelita's New 'Heavenly Night' Christmas project has nothing but shine! Her project is so good, that every single track has been added to our Christmas rotation! Congratulations on a project that sets the bar for all others to follow."
Curtis Belcher - President & CEO
CJTK 95.5 FM Sudbury; 102.1 FM Little Current; 103.5 FM North Bay (www.cjtk.com)
"I have listened to the album through about three times so far and added six songs to Galaxie for the Christmas season; the four originals plus First Noel and Let's Make A Baby King. Heavenly Night I'm putting in regular rotation as of November 27."
Lorne Anderson - Programmer
Galaxie, CBC’s Continuous Music Network (www.galaxie.ca)
"I received a copy of your Heavenly Night CD on Friday. Thank you! VERY impressive in every way as I expected it to be. Sure am impressed with a few of your originals. Will be spinning a lot of tracks in a month or so on Seaside."
Paul Kennedy - Announcer & Assistant Program Director
94.7 Seaside FM Halifax, Nova Scotia (www.seasidefm.com)
"Jesus brought healing to victims of others’ hatred. As his Body in the world today, this should be the church’s ongoing mission. I’m encouraged to know that organizations like the NewSong Agape Restoration Centre exist and I hope they receive the widest possible support."
Bruxy Cavey - Teaching Pastor, The Meeting House & Author of The End of Religion
"10/10. This is a new Christmas song to me. Sung by an artist that is new to me. But I am glad I listened to this track. Kelita has a captivating voice and uses it well."
Roger Hill - In Touch Magazine, UK
"I’m broadcasting this song worldwide."
Derek Stringer - Good News Broadcasting Association, Worldwide
"Very good."
Gerd Stassen - Ems Vechte Welle, Germany
"10/10. Beautiful sensitive offering."
Graham Hassall - Radio Nightingale, UK
"10/10. Great. Aired on my show on approximately 300 radio stations worldwide."
Paul Davis - NCM Radio Show, 300 Radio Stations, Worldwide
"Captures something."
Paul Poulton - Lewis Management, Temporary Music & Paul Poulton Project, UK
"Very good."
Rein Wortelboer - PeelGrass Radio, Holland
"A beautiful contemporary Christmas carol."
Rennie J Clarke - Journalist, UK
"Very good."
Arno Bierings - Radio Eagle, Holland
"Pretty sound."
Geoff Howlett - BBC Radio Humberside, UK
"Lovely voice, nice song."
JW Brookfield - Pathfinder Magazine, UK
"10/10. Excellent!"
Jackie Blair - CMDS, Scotland
"Very good ballad."
Malcolm Clarke - Radio Northwick Park, UK
"10/10. Deserves a prominent place on the Christmas playlist."
Pastor Keith Brown - Hiscoming Ministries & Rapture Radio, Worldwide
"Lovely singing – good song."
Ken Hancock - Northsound2, Scotland
"Terrific voice. Very good."
Stuart Cameron - Journalist, Scotland
"Enjoyable. This is on my show."
Andy Humphries - NCM Radio Show, 300 Radio Stations, Worldwide
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Canadian Singer Kelita Releases First Christmas CD
Proceeds from benefit CD will aid abused children
Toronto, Ontario, Oct 2, 2007 - Today, Canadian award-winning singer and song writer Kelita released her first Christmas CD, "Heavenly Night."
A benefit CD, Kelita was inspired to use her voice to aid young girls rescued from the sex trade after a trip to Cambodia in 2006.
"Most young girls play with dolls, ride bikes and go to school," says Kelita also a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. "In Cambodia, 100,000 children as young as three define their childhood as sexual slavery."
Available across Canada in Christian bookstores and online at www.heavenlynight.org, "Heavenly Night" features four new songs written by Kelita, including the title track, and Mark Masri. Produced and arranged by Kelita's husband and producer Gord Lemon, the CD encompasses traditional Christmas songs with fresh new arrangements from smooth jazz
to R & B.
"Heavenly Night" was inspired after Kelita watched a documentary that revealed the stark and shocking truth of the childhood sex trade in Cambodia. With her husband and teenage son, she journeyed to Cambodia to witness firsthand the darkness of a poor, broken and corrupt country.
"In Cambodia," she says, "innocent children are sexually molested and raped, serving grown men several times in a single day and live in dimly lit rat-invested rooms where they are drugged and beaten into submission. This is an assault on their dignity, freedom and safety. This is not just an X rated movie. This is their REALITY, and we can all do something about it."
Upon her return, she searched for a way to make a difference and was inspired to produce the Christmas CD, which she will perform as a benefit concert on Dec 1, 2007 in the Toronto area. Proceeds from both will help the young girls Kelita met in Cambodia rescued from this modern day form of slavery.
Kelita dedicates two of the special heartfelt songs she wrote to suffering children around the world: "Not Just This Christmas" was inspired after watching the child sex slave documentary; "Heavenly Night" was inspired after the birth of Kelita's only child, and was previously recorded by musical theatre star Michael Burgess.
Kelita is donating all proceeds from the Heavenly Night CD and Concert to change the reality of rescued children in Cambodia by advocating on behalf of them, aiding in the healing and rehabilitation of those rescued, and encouraging others to get involved.
"I hope that this Christmas CD will not only entertain and impact its listeners but will educate, inspire and offer people a concrete way of contributing to the precious lives of these forgotten and broken little souls."
About Kelita: 2002 CGMA winner, and 5 time Juno nominee, Kelita has shared the stage with Jim Carrey, Reba McEntire, Randy Travis and Michelle Wright, performed on numerous television programs during her country music days, including Sun Country (a booster of both Kelita and k.d.lang in their early days) and the Canadian Country Music Awards (CCMA) show. In recent years, exuberant tones and textures of gospel define her music. Grappling with vulnerability, coping with a dysfunctional family and finally, finding strength in her faith, Kelita's autobiographical ballads are heartbreaking in their honesty, yet uplifting and filled with a gentle healing quality. Kelita's soulful music and message have taken her across Canada, the USA, Europe, South America and now Asia, with regular tours in the UK. She has performed in contrasting venues from churches and events numbering in the thousands to a gathering of female inmates in Lima Peru's maximum-security prison.
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