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Sonia with Disappear Fear is featured on Outbound Radio |
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 The latest studio CD "Tango" strives to cross cultural divides with songs in Spanish, Hebrew, Arabic and English. Whether in the bomb shelters "Miklats" in Israel or summer camps in Palestine, colleges, festivals or venues around the world SONiA is always striving to disappear fear between people. She has been nominated for a Grammy and has won numerous awards for her albums. Santa Cruz Guitar company named a guitar after her which was recently showcased at the Musik Messe in Frankfurt. She Loves Out Loud and Proud and donates 18% of all downloads of her music to end World Hunger. Jeep named her as one of 8 troubadours for their new National Campaign and video of the tour is currently on MTV. When sisters SONiA & CiNDY [Rutstein] of Baltimore Maryland created the Folk-Pop duo disappear fear and signed with Rounder Records for the release of their self-titled CD it was only the beginning. The CD won multiple awards including the GLAAD Award for Best Album, a GLAMA award, and Top Release of the Year by Mix Magazine. The next release, "Seed in the Sahara", was produced by Springsteen's piano player, Roy Bittan and won the GLAMA for best band. Rounder released "Almost Chocolate" in 1998, SONiA's first solo CD under her own name. During that year SONiA toured Europe (Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands) and Australia for the first time. "Me,Too" her 1999 release won Female Artist of the Year at the GLAMAs. "Me,Too" was also later chosen by the HRC (Human Rights Campaign) along with songs by U2 and many others for their compilation CD. "Me,Too" was also chosen by the Philadelphia Folk Festival for their 40th Year Anniversary CD (along with Ritchie Havens). Following another solo release "Live at the Down Home", SONiA decided it was time to bring back the harmonies which disappear fear has always been known for and added Laura Cerulli on vocals, percussion and drums. With Laura and other musicians SONiA & disappear fear released DF05 in 2005 and received rave reviews in SING OUT as well as other publications around the United States. In 2007, the Grammy nominee, released a brand new CD to el mundo (the world). 'TANGO' features 13 songs: 7 sung in Spanish, 3 in Hebrew and 3 in Arabic and English. The music matched the words in poetry about Love, Peace and Equality; themes familiar to SONiA's writing since the creation of her band, "disappear fear". The music classified as WORLD and Folk-Pop (with a deeper meaning). Latin and Middle Eastern rhythms and instrumentation along with lush string arrangements and harmonies are featured on this CD. SONiA & disappear fear did a 50 city US tour before heading to Australia and New Zealand and then Israel. She wrote the soundtrack for the documentary Autumn's Harvest, directed by Dave Marshall. The short film chronicles the life of Douglas, a migrant worker who is HIV positive. The film is currently being shown at film festivals around the world. 2009 Began in the US and then a tour of New Zealand and now SONiA heads to Germany and then back to the studio to produce the Sam Weiser Project. |
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