|  | | Laraaji Nadananda is a meditator, laugh-master and cosmic musician who has performed in Europe, Asia and in the United States with his specially designed electric zither. He also uses the African Mbire, piano, synthesizers, hand drums, percussions, Tibetan gong, and voice in his presentations. Early collaboration with producer Brian Eno led to Laraaji's first internationally distributed recording Ambient #3—Day of Radiance. This was the first of many recordings. Laraaji is the creator and facilitator of Laughter Meditation Workshops in the United States and abroad; empowering workshops that acknowledge and honor the ability of our laughter to take us into deep relaxation and receptivity to meditation. |
 | | Michael Poelchau was born in Dallas, Texas, into a musical family. He began violin at age eight, and moved to Germany at ten. As a teenager, he began exploring folk and rock music on the violin, and played in numerous orchestras, folk ensembles and rock bands. Michael is an admirer and practitioner of traditional Irish music, and is an active player in the Bonn/Cologne area and in his current home city of Berlin. |
|  | | Dominique Lacasa, born in Berlin, began her recording, stage, and television career at age nine in connection with Weihnachten in Familie, a family project that, with sales of around two million albums, became the all-time best seller in the former DDR (German Democratic Republic, or "East Germany"). After leaving home, she studied jazz singing with Judy Niemack-Prins at Hanns Eisler Academy of Music. Following this, she recorded the album Breathe in collaboration with Marcus Fritzsch, which features the single "Two is One." Dominique spent several years touring in Europe with ABBA Fever. While she appears here and there on German radio and television, her main focus at the moment is developing a solo program of her own songs, and travel and collaboration with other artists are enriching that process. | |
