Artist - Tchiya Amet

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Biography

Awakening to the beauty of her journey, Tchiya Amet, singer, songwriter & keyboard artist, shares her sweet sounds and lyrical reflections with the rhythms of reggae, world and celestial music.
 Born August 5th, 1961 and raised as a young girl on the South side of Chicago, Il., Tchiya’s interests were as diverse as her cultural heritage. Her background resembles a patchwork quilt. She is First Nations: Moor, Cherokee, Creole, and Blackfoot She is contemporary Urban Indigenous Woman. As a young girl at the age of eight, she played the piano for many hours a day and composed her own tunes without formal training. She continued to play and write mostly for herself until she met, fell in love and married her first husband, Mario Vela. Tchiya thought Mario (drums, percussion & producer) was crazy when he would say that someday they would have a band and that she would sing and play keyboards. It turns out that he was far from being crazy. It was in her adult life as a mother of 2 daughters, Monoah & Lluvia, that Tchiya manifested her gift of lyricism, music and performance.
 
Much of her music is shaped by her life experiences in school at Oberlin College where she pursued a degree in Physics and also entered the realm of The Conservatory. She took up Jazz Piano as a hobby. Tchiya went on to perform with the Oberlin Jazz Ensemble. The ABUSUA Black Student Campus organization introduced Tchiya to many ideals, principles and prophets of the Black Consciousness Movement. This would include Ron Karenga, founder of the Nguza Saba (the foundation for the cultural observance of Kwanzaa) as well as Malcolm X, “Until all of us are free, none of us are free!”
 
After Oberlin, Tchiya studied Galactic Astronomy in the graduate program at the University of Texas in Austin with Gerard and Antoinette de Vaucouleurs. This is also where she began her studies in Cultural Astronomy with Linda Schele years later. It was during this time that she learned about Natural Life and Healing, Yoga, the Spirit and Power of the Mind. Reggae Music, the Rastafarian and Black Hebrew Israelite Movements opened her eyes and mind to Truth, History, Health and Culture. Tchiya has since become a vegetarian, yoga instructor, herbalist, homeschool & soccer mom, professional musician, performing & recording artist, festival producer, organic gardener, natural foods co-op organizer, cultural astronomer, & most recently, acutonics (cosmic sound healing) practitioner and instructor.
 
She has completed 2 CD’s: “Rise Again Truth” and “Black Turtle Island”. She is currently working in Rio de Janiero, Brasil on her 3rd CD entitled “Celestial Folk Music”. Tchiya is a “Keeper of the Dream”. The healing energy of her life is illuminating her music. Her natural singing voice & lyrics embody the spirit of beauty and variety as well as metamorphosis, rebirth, love & hope. The lion is her ally. Tchiya embraces the lion and learns to balance power, intention & strength with the grace of this cat. Her heartfelt change is transformational, leading the way to rebirth and clarity –that we are all related to one another.    Guided by the Sun & the Stars, this sister reminds us that the Sun is the prime source of light and heat for Planet Earth, and that combined with rain it brings forth and sustains life.

Tchiya is combining her gifts in music and science: healing & awareness with Sound; performing music that is inspired by the Ancient Wisdom which is found in Cultural Astronomy: the Traditional and Contemporary Celestial Worldviews of Indigenous Peoples of the Four Directions. Tchiya is also sharing the Teachings of the Four Directions, including Bhagavad Gita, the Lotus Sutra, The Kybalion, the Kabala, the Torah (the Bible), Cherokee Legends, Lakota Sundance, & Maat from Kemet. She is reaching out to a wider audience the more universal her music becomes--expounding the Universal Truth, the Law of Life. Tchiya, warm like the light of the sun and the heart of a lion, is Born to Rule. Her recordings are dedicated to the Great Universe who opened the path to her higher Self.