Her first CD, the self-titled Tonia Rose, is filled with greatly intelligent lyrics, harmonic musicality and rhythms that move through you like a warm breeze. It covers a lot of emotional territory of the personal and collective heart and soul.

T r a g e d y
reflects on the pain of not communicating in relationships;

C h o o s e   t o   L o v e
is an important reminder how crucial it is to choose love in any situation and this act's potential to impact the world;

I f   Y o u   O n l y   K n e w
is letter to someone who doesn't know of the enormous amount of love available to them;

W h i t e   D o v e s
is a story of release;

S a m e   C o l o r   S o u l
is about separation from the oneness we all share;

B l i n d e r   T h a n   S h e
explores the gift of silent knowing;

T h o u s a n d   Y e a r s
is a powerful visionary anthem to a positive future;

F r e e
- the message is that “sometimes greater love means letting go” and soaring in true freedom;

I   W a n t
reveals inner longing;

B r i d g e   t h e   C a n y o n
is about a trip from one side of self to the other, the answers received and sharing that understanding with a distant love;

J u s t i f y   M y   C r i m e
admits the futility of blame and revenge and the closing track;

P o l i t i c a l   M a d n e s s
is a message to those who play in the fields of greed, secrets, pain, destruction of dreams, the games they play and their denial of our connection to each other and the earth.

Colors of Joni Mitchell and many other talented singer-songwriters permeate this CD, but Tonia Rose is an original voice whose deep and soulful messages are worth listening to again and again and sharing with many people around the world. For hers is a universal voice that is a gift to humanity at a time when our greatest need is to understand and begin to live the underlying unity of all life on this earth.

May the world open its heart and soul to Tonia's voice and ideas and may we “celebrate what we are now for the next thousand years”....

My advice: get this CD and give it, listen and live it and your world and the world at large will be a better place.

Jeff Hutner
Editor and Publisher
New Paradigm Digest