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In an unabridged dictionary, "carmen" is a noun that can mean "song, poem, or incantation."

I am a vocalist, vocal artist and vocal coach. I love jazz standards, torch songs, Broadway tunes, R & B, singing in Spanish, French, Portuguese, Tagalog, fake J-pop. . . and especially music with bare vocals and piano or guitar. I still teach select students, I still sing  live with bands or as  a  solo artist.  Other uses of my voice include narrating audiobooks,  recording IVR (interactive voice response) systems,  and  voiceovers for  film and digital film projects.

I don't perform regularly anymore, but I do still love to sing.  Every once in awhile, I record some songs for fun, mostly because I like to record how my voice changes and evolves through the years. 

2010

This year, I recorded some acoustic covers with my sister's musical partner, JSOS aka Justin Crisostomos of ZSOS.  It's just guitar and vocals.  And most are done in one or two takes, with little to no rehearsal. So enjoy the "imperfect" nature (it's WABI SABI STYLE MAN!) of capturing a small moment of vocal cords flexing.

Download here: CDJ and JSOS 2010 (9 songs)

Session 1 (February)

You (Carpenters cover)
You (Basil Valdez cover)
Fascination (Everything but the Girl cover)
Beautifully Undone (Lindy cover)
Human Nature (Michael Jackson cover)

Session 2 (March)

Secret (Madonna cover)
The Spiderbite Song (Flaming Lips cover)
Make You Feel My Love (Bob Dylan cover)
It Might be You (Stephen Bishop cover)

2006  

Piano by Nina Beck, recorded at Selektion Records, Hollywood, CA
Vocals recorded at Music Works, Manila, Philippines

Blame it on my Youth

Sophisticated Lady

Nearness of You

My Funny Valentine

But Not For Me

2005

This Girl's In Love with You (Herb Alpert), with some random karaoke track, on my Garageband

2003

My Funny Valentine, in rehearsal with Marty Lew Band

2002 

City So Small lyrics by Carmen De Jesus, music by Joanna De Jesus
The story behind the song, "City So Small"

Carmen De Jesus - Since I Fell for You, in rehearsal with Marty Lew Band

Carmen De Jesus - The Nearness of You, in rehearsal with Marty Lew Band

Voice Over:

ArtWorld by Jim Sottile

Audiobook Recording Sample:

The Manga Man, by Alexander Besher

Interactive Voice Response

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  • As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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  • "It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk [it took] to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to bloom." - Anais Nin

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  • "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." - Douglas Adams

  • "Will is the measure of power. To a great genius there must be a great will. If the thought is not a lamp to the will, does not proceed to an act, the wise are imbecile. He alone is strong and happy who has a will. The rest are herds. He uses; they are used. He is of the Maker; they are of the Made. Will is always miraculous, being the presence of God to men. When it appears in a man he is a hero, and all metaphysics are at fault." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • "When I had youth I had no money; now I have the money I have no time; and when I get the time, if I ever do, I shall have no health to enjoy life. I suppose it’s the discipline I need; but it’s rather hard to love the things I do, and see them go by because duty chains me to my galley. If I ever come into port with all sails set, that will be my reward perhaps." - Louisa May Alcott

  • "Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world." - Arthur Schopenhauer

  • "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle

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  • "And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

  • "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." - Aldous Huxley

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  • If you don't change, reality in the end forces that change upon you." - Stuart Wilde

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  • "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein

  • "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." - Frank Herbert

  • "We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves." - Buddha

  • "To achieve, you need thought... You have to know what you are doing and that's real power." - Ayn Rand

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