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Darlene Koldenhoven is a GRAMMY® Award Winner with 3 GRAMMY® nominations. She is a vocalist, keyboardist/pianist, composer, songwriter, arranger, lyricist, producer, author, actor, credentialed voice teacher, and certified sonic therapist. Darlene is known worldwide as the featured soprano soloist singing “Aria” in the PBS TV Special and Video, Yanni, Live at the Acropolis, seen by over 1.5 billion television viewers and millions more now on YouTube, and most notably, as the tambourine-waving choir nun with Whoopi Goldberg in both Sister Act films, where off-camera she was the production vocal coach and vocal contractor, music director, and rehearsal pianist during their choreography rehearsal. As a solo artist and author, Darlene recently appeared on WGN-TV Chicago/nationwide, being interviewed and performing two solo piano pieces from her new album, A Grand Memoir. The Los Angeles Chapter of The Recording Academy presented Darlene with an MVP Best Session Singer award for singing on over 1,000 recordings in films, television, records, commercials, and charitable causes internationally. You’ll find her name and her 5-octave range on a plethora of artists’ albums, including Pink Floyd, Barbra Streisand, Whitney Houston, Neil Young, Celine Dion, Rod Stewart, Kenny Loggins, Ringo Starr, and as a lead soprano for Clare Fischer’s 2+2, the source of her GRAMMY® Award and 3 nominations in Best Jazz Vocal Performance by Group. Darlene has also performed as a soloist with David Byrne at the Royal Albert Hall with London’s Royal Philharmonic; the Chicago Symphony; on the Academy Awards® with the late Robin Williams, Paul McCartney at the Hollywood Bowl, and Ricky Kej at the Queen’s Palace in Bangalore, India. As a solo indie artist, Darlene is the first inductee into the IMC’s Indie Music Hall of Fame presented at the GRAMMY Museum®. She has an Outstanding Legacy Award and Hall of Fame induction from The Akademia; Lifetime Achievement Award and Hall of Fame induction from One World Music Radio; and Outstanding Artist 2023 from New Age Music Planet Gran Prix Awards.

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