To my audience... After careful contemplation, I have decided to abandon logic and whole-heartedly be true to what my spirit and soul has been prompting me to do for a long time. I am delighted to announce that I am taking on a new name from Charlottemarie to Vima Lamura. In this time of awakening, I fully embrace the wisdom of higher purpose in everything including a name change. May you enjoy the musical resonance of Vima Lamura as much as I. Abundant Blessings of Grace to you all ... Vima
"My Journey is creating high quality works that usher spiritual, personal and global awareness bridging transcendental, cultural and human experiences through the powerful mediums of voice, music, film, performances, and writing."
Vima Lamura (Charlottemarie) breaks barriers creating an innovative hybrid of "new" music through her unique voice, performances and recordings. Her astonishing 4 octave range, artistic refinement and spritual essence, weaves an ancient-futuristic tone with multi cultural influences, luxuriant vocals, and potent messages elegantly set on electronic/acoustic sound-beds creating transcending musical experiences beyond entertainment.
Vima (Charlottemarie) has 7 CDs to her credit and featured on many more. She has created, scripted, composed and performed 7 “world beat operas” in addition to multiple ensemble performances and solo tours worldwide. Her voice is heard on film soundtracks, internationally. Her performance and composition works have been rewarded by esteemed Fellowship and Grant Foundations. Vima is also a published writer and poet.
A lifetime of immersion in ancient, traditional cultures, cultivated her global appeal. Vima's works translate these experiences through high quality music, events, writings and teachings bridging transcendental, cultural, and human experiences.
Vima's film and musical recordings, events and performances span the US, Europe, India, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and the Netherlands.
Inside the Voice
At an early age, Vima was inspired listening to canters, East Indian Sanskrit chanting, Mid Eastern instrumentals and West African chant and rhythms. This exposure initiated her Life's work in a diverse and indigenous world of chant, music, teachings and sound, setting a foundation for her career in music, performances and film, personal healing and spiritual awareness.
Vima's career ignited early as a singer and composer. Her course changed drastically when a pivotal healing experience deepened her awareness of the spiritual and healing capacity of her voice. This transformed her life, in trun, strogly influenced her creations. Vima's immersion in meditation, ancient teachings, yoga, and chant opened portals to a deeper awakening to the profound effects of voice, healing, and consciousness. To this day, her voice has a transcending and healing effet on audiences, worldwide.
"...there is no separation between who I am and what I do.. What is born from the Self blossoms through the Self."
Vima's voice and musical creations serve as a platform where audiences have the opportunity to expereince the profound effects of vibration through a highly cultivated voice and music designed to elevate.
“Journeying into what lies beyond, I see the realm of consciousness beholds the nectar of healing light ... it is there where all originates trickling from vibration into form... once awake, we create in co-creative union into the depths of our existence and the heights of our love.”
What is a Chanter
Chanting is an ancient way of life that unifies the heavens with earth though sound and vibration. Remembered and practiced by indigenous cultures but forgotten over time through the evolution of modern society.
There is a difference between chanters and singers. Chanters access refined energy states that is transmitted through their voice. Traditionally, chanting is used to tell stories, heal individuals & communities, communicating on all levels. What they chant are known as either chants or song lines. Chants are repetitive sung phrases. Song lines are like prayer songs that are sung in the native language or in a refined language of sound that resonates with the language of the people.
There are chants and song lines for healing, communicating genealogy and the origins of the community. There are song lines and chants that energetically unify and connect global communities. Some chants tune in to the vibrations of the elements in nature as well as the universe.
Some chanters have the sensitivity to chant visions of higher consciousness and the sounds of the cosmos, linking a resonating core within the listener. For the most part, chanters have a refined sonic and vibrational relationship with all life forms on all dimensions. Chanters vibrationally access a primordial core to the authentic heart where the divine and earthly realms meet within the body and spirit.
Chanters give openly bringing inspiration and light for the benefit of all existence in recognition of the vibrational source of creation.
Everyone is experiencing accelerated spiritual awakening in one capacity or another. This has prompted a resurgence of chant and song lines for healing, awakening, and transformation. Bringing chant and song lines out into the open through the arts exposes all audiences to an experience that is familiar, transcending and elevating. The artistic platforms of music and film serve as perfect mediums of communicating and unifying on all dimensions. Audiences are taken to an exciting and mystical world that opens hearts inspiring peace, expansion and awakening.
"It is humbly gratifying to create works that inspire so profoundly, individuals are touched with an experience enhancing a greater sense of their hearts and souls... elevating to a place of peace and unity."
"It is pure hubris to think that I reinvent myself. In humbled surrender, I have been stripped bare and burned in the fires of Love by the greater force that reinvents me in it's relentless timing, cruel master and inexplicable wisdom. The questions, "who am I" and "what am I to do" reduces to, "what is needed to BE through me."V ima
