Hi,
This evening, me and Ah Bi was fortunate enough to know that there's a dhamma talk by a Buddhist songstress Ravenna. Ah Jue know about this from an e-mail distribution list send by Nalanda Buddhist society. For those who don't know her, she was born in The States. The talk was held in Nalanda Buddhist Society in Serdang. The talk started at 8.30pm. During the talk, Ravenna sang to us live from numbers from her album. It's a truly out of this world experience. This was our first time we've heard live singing of dhamma song from someone outside Malaysia ! Her singing style is different from normal dhamma song that I've heard. Her voice was powerful and having diverse vocal variety. It reminds me of The Cranberries in the early years though. While explaining some famous Buddhist figures and concept in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism, she include her singing to reinforced her idea across. Occasionally, she'll ask for response from the floor to keep us interested. Fortunately, her song indeed mesmerized us. Soon the talk change to a mini concert with us singing along in 2 of the songs. Me and Ah Bi lost count on number of songs she had sang. All in all, it ended around 9.45pm. Time just fly by without us really realizing. We were served with refreshment courtesy of Nalanda with Red bean soup, fried meehon, cakes etc afterwards. 3X Sadhu to them for providing such a wonderful food and place to listen to Dhamma. We hope today's merits that we've accumulated will be shared by all sentient beings...
Before we leave, we do bought a CD from her 2nd album - Dharma Song and we even get her to autograph our CD too :) If you want to know her more, she's available in iTunes, Facebook and MySpace. Check her song out if you interested. There's even interview from another blog as well.
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