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Beirut-based multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, and producer Gilles Jan Petersen, better known under his stage name Laszlo Jones, announces his latest single and music video, “In The Morning,” a track off his upcoming collection of work, the EP Beyond The Door. 

Delivering a unique sound reflecting his multiple talents and vivid creativity, Jones continues his musical journey in style with this record mixed by Kane Churko (In this moment, 5 Fingers Death Punch, Ozzy Osbourne, Papa Roach, Skillet, Disturbed) at the “Hideout” studio in Las Vegas, and featuring drummer Ralph Sammins, bassist Michael Buyens, arranger Marcos Barilari, and pianist Michael Arrom. 

“In The Morning” sees Laszlo Jones express the contrast between the atrocities of a night of modern warfare (bombing and killing) and the calm and gentleness of a morning with rising sun and light breeze. For the music video, the concept was transposed into a night of ultra-violence between a man and a woman, leading to the murder of the man. In the morning the woman wakes up and goes about her day, dancing it away. 

Freedom seems to be the word that best describes Laszlo’s music and himself as an artist. He released his first record called Banana Nation in France in 2011, with Universal Music, achieving a fair critical and commercial success locally, and topping a million views with his video “Download Me Im Free.”

Laszlo is first and foremost a music composer and he lets himself be guided by all 5 senses, his critical but joyful view of the world, and his remarkable appetite for freedom, to achieve exquisite songwriting, which is his strength. 

Born in Beirut from a Dutch and Hungarian Father and a Lebanese mother, Laszlo Jones’ childhood was punctuated by many travels, following the expatriations of his parents, and gave him an exalted taste for adventure, discovery, and freedom. With a composing style characterized by crossover atmospheres, his signature sound lies at the intersection of pop/soul, rock, metal and electro. 

The listener will discover Laszlo Jones’ hallucinatory perspectives and universe, a futuristic dark world tinged with rage and a certain realism. He invites us in a sensory journey, in a setting as poetic as it is violent, where he consciously mixes the authentic beauty of the images with the chilling sensation they provide.

In the end, it’s as if Laszlo Jones was composing music for his own mental movies. His inspiration does not know the format, it is free, like him. An escape from reality that takes you on a trip through time and space while challenging your most hidden emotions, “In The Morning” is a soulful, ethereal and post-contemporary song  filled with grace, for a guaranteed out-of-this-world feel.

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Brenda grew up in and around Washington, DC. She grew up in an environment rich in museums and history. Her family moved to their summer home on the Eastern Shore in the summer, where they still have a family home. Summers on the Eastern Shore were filled with highlights such as sailing, crabbing, and working a variety of summer jobs. Her family would return to the DC area after the summer.

She went to an all-girls high school.

Brenda attended the University of Maryland after graduating from high school, where she earned a bachelor's degree in education. She earned a Masters degree in education while attending graduate school in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

She is a Maryland teacher and the author of the Commando KidZ series.

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Dawn Witte is a philanthropist and self-inspired author.

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Raju is from the UK and is the co-founder of the Talent Spotlight Podcast

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Molim El Barch, also known through social media as TheMagicMan, is a 35 year old professional magician and mind reader from Germany.

He began his career at the age of 21, doing smaller gigs at partys and in Bars. Today, he is hired all around Germany on marriages, corporate events and small theatres, to put smiles and aws into peoples faces:-)

Besides that, he owns a secret online magic shop for magicians, were he sells his own magic creations.

Yes, magicians buy their tricks from him!

Because of his interest in escape games, and his colleague Riener Gracias who builds escape rooms professionally, theu started to create a game together.

He just loved the idea, to combine a real magic show with an escape room experience!

He is very proud of the end result and can´t wait to see your face, after he reads your mind and maybe, get away with murder.

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Billy Bessant from the WRB Project was born and riased in Ashtabula, Ohio. He started playing guitar in 7th greade and composing at a young age.

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 Introducing Surya Devan E - a young man who is inspiring the world with his enviable ambition, passion, and dedication. Singaporean by descent, 30-year-old Surya has recently completed a long-distance bachelor's degree in Business Management, with honors, from the University of Northampton in the United Kingdom. Surya said, "I deliberately took the decision to study at a later age after completing my National Service as a paramedic with Singapore's emergency ambulance service. I'm also intending to further my studies by taking a master's level course in business to make me as employable as possible!" A quick look at Surya's Facebook and LinkedIn profile reveals an astounding amount of interests and passions. Just a few include volunteering, photography, cycling, tennis, and yoga. But topping the list is an impressive part-time acting career. He has appeared in literally dozens of plays, TV shows, and films, to follow up with a previously selected brand ambassador of an overseas company firm. He states his life-skills are confidence, teamwork, and determination. He certainly has that! Another of Surya's proudest achievements was his time working with a boutique medical center In India. The main objective of the clinic is the early identification of problems relating to women."It taught me so much, and I was mainly involved in marketing and creating medical records." Surya added, "I am doing all this to build my personal brand, meet like-minded people, and hopefully find a good job. I will consider anything, but I love the health-care sector and feel I have much to offer." As the world struggles to come to terms with COVID-19 and our new ways of living and working, it is encouraging to meet inspiring young men like Surya Devan E. The future, as they say, is certainly in their hands.

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Liseli is a nurse in the UK working in the cardiology ward, looking after patients with heart attacks.

She was inspired by first time parents who managed to struggle through the pandemic and raise a new born child.

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Chloé Temtchine, an award-winning singer/songwriter lived with Pulmonary Hypertension for 12 years. On August 5, 2020, after suffering a cardiac arrest, being in a coma for four days, and on life support (ECMO) for almost a month, Chloé received a life-saving, double-lung transplant. The surgery was performed at UCLA by the incredible Dr. Abbas Ardehali.

In 2013, Chloé had just finished an album with Smash Mouth’s Grammy-nominated Greg Camp. All set to go on a world tour with Camp, Chloé suffered congestive right-heart failure and was rushed to the ER. She was told she had Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH), a rare and fatal lung condition, little time left to live, and that she would have to be on oxygen for the rest of her life.

To say that Chloé’s world was turned upside down in an instant is not an overstatement. She had spent the previous five years dealing with a variety of physical symptoms (shortness of breath, chest pain, dry cough, body aches, racing heartbeat, fatigue, and water retention) that left many respected and acclaimed doctors at some of the most prestigious medical institutions perChloeplexed. During this time, Chloé was diagnosed with everything from pulmonary embolism to sarcoidosis to autoimmune disease. One physician even suggested that she see a psychiatrist. All of them were wrong.

Chloé’s story, though, is not about the years of doctor-hopping, misdiagnoses, or landing in the Critical Care Unit. It's about what happened afterwards and where she is today.

Chloé left the hospital, in 2013, determined to do everything possible to boost her health and beat the odds in order to extend her lifespan. She took control of her destiny and completely altered her lifestyle, utilizing Five Key Principles: Nutritional Lifestyle, Exercise, Mindset, Creative Expression, Family & Friends.

Seven years after being released from the critical care unit and many, many, many days more than doctors thought possible, Chloé was writing music, performing, and using her talent to inspire and empower those affected with PAH and other chronic illnesses.

In that time, she released three albums: Be Brave, Strangers, and Lead Me Home. Chloé wrote the song Be Brave shortly after she was released from the hospital's critical care unit. Over 150,000 copies were downloaded within the first 90 days of its release. She just completed her fourth album, titled You Save Me, and is working on her fifth album.

Once out of the hospital, Chloé jumped right back into songwriting mode. By 2014, Chloé (who sings with a paralyzed vocal cord and who sang with her oxygen tank that she affectionately named Steve Martin) debuted Be Brave, a song about making the choice to live despite life’s challenges.

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Most of his life has been spent teaching patriotism and the constitution.  Ron has his own radio talk show called Uncle Sam Says, Saturday 9:30AM, KSUV Radio AM 950, Cherry Creek Radio, Cedar City, UT.

He is also a lively podcaster.  You can check him out on iHeart.com under Uncle Sam Says.  Ron is also the author of a number of books.

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