LAURA ANGELINI

LAURA ANGELINI is a National Billboard Top 40 charting recording artist making a difference through music.

Her first single release has climbed to the TOP 40 on the US Billboard Dance Music Charts. It’s a medley of an original song “Share That Love” and “What The World Needs Now Is Love”, the iconic Burt Bacharach hit song. The Single is playing heavily in clubs across America and on dance radio. The Single is available now on all music download and streaming sites. On Spotify alone it has quickly become a streaming hit, amassing nearly a half million streams in its summer release.

Laura was born in Bronx, N.Y., as a young adult, she developed a love for musical theater, gymnastics and dance. She spent her time studying as well as teaching the arts. Her passion for music grew and she became a professional singer and vocal director. Laura has performed and toured extensively throughout the United States.

Throughout her music career, this visionary artist’s love for people, animals and the environment grew and she came to combine her music and philanthropy interests to create her music mission.

She had the honor of touring with legendary Grammy winning artist, Andy Williams. Laura has co-produced works for film and television projects with Claude Amesse, lyricist for Canada’s International iconic Cirque Du Soleil.

She is currently recording with Producer David Longoria and touring with the world-renowned trumpetist and performer’s We Are One Concerts. The ground-breaking, unifying musical concerts are putting her in front of large crowds at events in California and across the country. With We Are One Concerts, Laura sang for the National Day of Prayer For Our Nation at the White House, in front of more than 3 million people at Unity Day in Brooklyn, N.Y. and at a similar event for Unity in New York, N.Y. Laura’s Legacy Of Love is to make a difference through music.

Laura has been donating her voice and time to Angels of Charity and Music for the past five years and has received letters of recognition from the mayor of Los Angeles for her volunteering efforts. This past August, Laura traveled to Peru and volunteered on a medical mission, where 250 children received cleft palate corrective surgeries.

Laura also supports and is involved with various non-profit organizations including: Ocean Defenders Alliance, cleaning up Orange County and Hawaii seas, and Shelter Box, providing relief for those displaced by war and disaster.

Laura works endlessly on her philanthropic efforts, raising her voice for local and global and charitable events. Laura’s Share That Love Organization (sharethatove.org) supports people and organizations doing charitable work in the world.

SELENE CALLONI WILLIAMS

Selene Calloni Williams, with a degree in psychology and master’s in screen writing, has authored several books and documentaries on psychology, deep ecology, shamanism, yoga, philosophy, and anthropology. A direct student of James Hillman, she studied and practiced Buddhist meditation in the hermitages of the forests of Sri Lanka and is an initiate of Shamanic Tantric Yoga. She is the founder and the director of the Imaginal Academy Institute in Switzerland. 

TIPPA LEE

A British dancehall MC who launched his career in the ’80s but later worked with Tom Chasteen and Dub Club.

Tippa Lee was born Anthony Campbell in Kingston, Jamaica. He debuted in 1983 as Tipper Lee and with Johnny Slaughter on their single “Sensimillia.” That year’s split album Murder acted as his debut LP and featured cuts from Lee with Slaughter, along with solo tracks from Toyan.

His partnership with Rappa Robert (sometime Roberts) began in 1987 with a series of collaborative singles that reached its peak in 1988 with the number one Jamaican hit “No Trouble We.” Nuh Trouble We, the album, landed that same year with Tipper now firmly established as Tippa, then another string of singles led up to the duo’s 1990 album, Roots Vibration.

In 2000 he joined the Hit Squad label and moved to the U.S., then in 2003 the Roots Vibration Production label issued his “Tell Me Now” single with superstar Beenie Man‘s “Babylon Fornication” on the flip side.

What followed were some random singles and underground releases not easily found outside San Francisco, then in 2016 he partnered with Dub Club producer and leader Tom Chasteen for the vocal album Cultural Ambassador, along with its dub remix Dub Them with Reality. Both releases were issued by Stones Throw.

Joe Madison is a radio talk show host and civil rights activist.  He can be heard every weekday morning on SiriusXM Urban View. 

Joe Madison is a groundbreaking radio personality and civil rights activist who has devoted his career to raising awareness about issues around the world, encouraging dialogue among people of different backgrounds, and raising money to support multicultural education and institutions. Known as“The Black Eagle,” Joe can be heard weekday mornings on SiriusXM’s Urban View.

While majoring in sociology at Washington University, Joe was an All-Conference running back and baritone soloist with the University’s concert choir.

As a young adult, Joe worked in urban affairs at Seymour & Lundy Associates and was active in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). At age 24, he became the youngest executive director of the NAACP’s Detroit branch, then rose to the position of director of the NAACP Political Action Department in 1978 before becoming a member of the national board.

Joe’s radio career began in 1980 at Detroit’s WXYZ-AM. In the early 1990s, he joined an otherwise white lineup at WWRC-AM. There, he worked to develop crossover appeal while discussing racial and other issues with the station’s multiracial audience. In the late 1990s, Joe started his own online talk show before moving to Washington, D.C.’s WOL-AM. The popularity of this led to syndication on the Radio One Talk Network and its XM satellite channel.

Joe uses his show as a platform for inspiring action on critical issues affecting the African American community. In 2013 and 2014, he hosted a series about the 1960s civil rights movement, featuring guests like the Reverend Bernice King, daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Luci Baines Johnson, daughter of President Lyndon Johnson. In 2015, Joe set a Guinness World Recordfor the longest on-air broadcast, 52 hours, which raised more than $200,000 for the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Joe has also brought international attention to the struggles of the Sudanese people through 90 days of peaceful protests outside of the U.S. Embassy in Washington, D.C. He delivered survival kits to refugees and freed Sudanese people being held as slaves. In 2015, he led a campaign to secure a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame for comedian, activist, and former St. Louisan Dick Gregory.

A Fellow of the William Greenleaf Eliot Society, Joe has generously supported scholarships, athletics, and the Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement at Washington University. He has interviewed students for admission to Washington University for over 20 years.

Joe lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Sharon. The couple has four children and five grandchildren.