About Frannie

"There's always been a link between music, spirituality, and healing for me," says singer-songwriter Frannie Faith. "Music is a heart-opener. I am in the present moment when I'm singing, breathing in and breathing out.." A native Long Islander who's been playing guitar and piano since age nine, Frannie started voice lessons, was initiated into transcendental meditation and began writing songs as a teenager. "Music has always been my sanctuary, but music and healing didn't really connect until later in my life," she explains. "Around the time I started writing the songs on Artist of the Heart."

Co-produced by Frannie with her husband, guitarist/arranger Jeff Southworth (Hall and Oates), Artist of the Heart has quickly become one of the top-selling albums in CDBaby's New Age/Healing and New Age/Yoga genres. Embraced in a soothing, hope-filled blanket of acoustic guitars, piano, and violin, Frannie's bell-clear voice weaves its way through the record's eight originals—uplifting anthems like the hypnotic invocation "Inner Sound" (lyrics: "Leave me with nothing / but the light I'm supposed to be"); "Rock Me in the Cradle," a hook-rich, pop-folk message of universal loving kindness; and "Gate Gate" (pronounced "ga-tay, ga-tay"), a deep mantra praised by Jivamukti Yoga founder Sharon Gannon for the way Frannie's "heart-lifting vocals soar like a bird being released from a cage."

Frannie moved to New York City in the early '80s to pursue a performing career. While continuing her meditation and yoga practice, she played with Television drummer Billy Ficca and others, cut demos with producers Rob Freeman (the Go-Go's) and Andy Goldmark (Michael Bolton), and sang on advertising jingles. She landed the role of a country singer on long-running television soap opera "As the World Turns," for which she wrote and performed over 40 original songs. In addition to penning songs for Patti Austin and others, Frannie appeared on TV's "Star Search" (she also composed music for one of the show's winning acts), and continues to do session work today, recently lending her voice to the upcoming film Scooby Doo: Mystery Inc. Since 1997, Frannie has been organizing and performing in benefit concerts with her talented family and friends and their families, bringing community together to raise money for various charities. The last concert was for Buddhist Monk Bhante Wimala's Humanitarian causes through Triple Gem Society.

At a walk-in clinic in 2006, as a treatment for a sinus infection Frannie was given the controversial drug Levaquin, which triggered an adverse reaction resulting in tendon damage, chronic pain, and other debilitating effects. A revolving door of drug-dispensing medical specialists was of little help. "I hit an emotional, physical, and spiritual bottom," she recalls. "I had to find ways to heal myself." Thus, through customized yoga, qi gong, meditation, energy work, and various ancient holistic methods taught to her by healers, Frannie has been on a journey to make herself well—and her well-being only continues to improve. Written during an intense, two-year period of soul-searching and curative rituals, the music on Artist of the Heart chronicles Frannie's journey back to the light and serves as her gift to the world.

And in this ever-turbulent world, Artist of the Heart offers some much-needed blissful balm. It's been a hit not only with listeners, but with DJs as well. "Frannie Faith's voice is a mirror of her soul," raves Calm Radio's Eric Harry. "Innocent and pure." Gary Goldberg from WPRI 91.5 FM says, "When I think a certain song is my favorite, another takes it's place. Frannie's songs lift your spirit..."

" My concerts are a shared form of healing, heart opening and prayer, where people can come together, and have a loving, joyful experience, singing along, dancing or just sitting quietly soaking in the positive energy," says Frannie. Her live band includes ex-Atlantic Starr singer Sharon Bryant and Frannie's husband, Jeff. "Connecting with our Divine energy to reach our natural state of oneness and peace is what it's all about for me now." Artist of the Heart is the radiant proof of her intention.