Olivier Award-Nominated singer-songwriter Shirlie Roden began her musical career in the mid-seventies touring America and Europe for three years with cult British rock band The Kinks in their concept musicals ‘Preservation’, ‘A Soap Opera’ and ‘Schoolboys in Disgrace.’
Shirlie later joined the Gordon Giltrap Band using her high vocal range as a unique instrument and sang on many studio sessions with artists such as David Gilmore, Mike Oldfield, Ultravox, Ian Gillan, Suzi Quatro and Hot Chocolate.
In the 80s she wrote for and performed extensively in musical theatre, collaborating with producer Bill Kenwright who produced her original shows including ‘Jeanne’ (Joan of Arc - the first rock opera to be staged at Sadler’s Wells Theatre London), ‘Tallulah Who?’ (co-written with Suzi Quatro and Willie Rushton), ‘Paddington Bear’s Magical Musical’ and the highly-successful ‘Roy Orbison Story’ on which she was co-writer (nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Musical).
Author of the book ‘Sound Healing’, Shirlie moved over into the healing arts in the 1990s, leading her sound workshops around Europe, Russia, Australia and for the past twenty-three years in Slovenia where she has received wide acclaim for her sound work and the healing power of her singing voice, all of which is featured in the hour-long RTV Slovenia documentary on her, ‘Ambassador of Light.’
Shirlie has recorded seven albums of her own music, plus a set of three ‘Raising Your Vibration’ sound healing cds and has recently devised and launched an innovative Sound Healing Cards app which people can use to work with recorded sounds, chakra colours and inspirational affirmations and readings to ‘retune’ themselves back into harmony.
