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Gabriel of Urantia has a long history in music and in service to planetary concerns. His own spiritual journey has evolved into a commitment to his destiny to help bring Global Change Music™ through his unique CosmoPop™ — "Vocal music of the future for minds of the future"—a beginning fourth-dimensional musical and lyrical experience. He believes that spiritual music does not have to be rote, "churchie", or square and that a spiritual person can still be hip, cool, and "rad" while experiencing CosmoPop™.
1958 :: Started singing as a youth with street corner harmony groups.
1960 :: Started first professional harmony group; performed at teenage dances.
1962-1970 :: Sang in nightclubs with local popular bands.
1964 :: Took first place at the Connelley Vocational High's music contest and awarded second place at all-city talent contest.
1964 :: Recorded eighteen songs on 45-rpm vinyls with Snyder Recording Company in Cleveland, Ohio.
1966 :: First white singer to work with Joni Wilson and The Debonairs, a 14-piece black rock band in Pittsburgh.
1967 :: Recorded two songs on 45-rpm vinyl at Gateway Studios in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1970 :: Had a spiritual awakening; quit nightclub performing and began to write spiritual songs and only perform at spiritual events.
1977-1982 :: In Tucson, Arizona, at the main auditorium of the University of Arizona, was an opening artist for famous Christian contemporary rock bands such as Petra, Resurrection Band, and Servant.
1983 :: Took his New Age Vocal demo cassettes to Hollywood and introduced the music to many recording labels as well as the Songwriters' Association of Hollywood.
1983 :: As his music did not follow the contemporary Christian sound, he then invented the term and genre, "New Age Vocal."
1985 :: Recorded his first vinyl 33-rpm album of ten songs, first released as Unicorn Love, at Aircraft Studios in Pittsburgh, PA ("Flowers," "Thinking How I Love You," "How Can We Judge Other People," "Listen To The Calling," "Wake Up America," "Escape," "Unicorn Love" (Title of Album), "But You're Not With Me," "The Great American Dream," "Good-bye Little Bird").
1985 :: Sang as the only caucasian lead singer with the Afro-American Catholic St. Brigid Gospel Choir in Pittsburgh. Was chosen, by an international broadcast of KDKA Radio (the first radio station in the U.S.) to sing his original composition "Blessed Mother" on Christmas Eve at Midnight Mass, opposite the Pope on television.
December 17, 1985 :: Gabriel featured in the South Pittsburgh Reporter; recognized for bringing contemporary spiritual music to churches.
December 27, 1985 :: Message music of Unicorn Love album marketed in Hollywood, California. Was pioneering the genre now known as "New Age Vocal."
1986 :: Sang with the 100-voice Afro-American Catholic St. Benedict Gospel Choir in Los Angeles; was the lead singer in the song "Waymaker." Performed this song at an all-city black Catholic gospel concert, which included gospel choirs from other black Catholic churches.
1986 :: Unicorn Love, New Age Vocal album, promoted in Hollywood, California.
1988 :: Performs at the Cobre Center for the Arts in Cobre Valley, Arizona. Also, "The Gabriel Hour of Enlightenment" premiers on KIKO radio.
1988 :: Recognized as the pioneer of "New Age Vocal."
1989 :: Unicorn Love re-released on cassette as Escape.
1989-1997 :: The Bright & Morning Star Band is forming, practicing, and recording. The Band members are all on a spiritual path. The patience and pain of waiting for the right musicians is a constant trial. Many musicians fail to meet the spiritual mark; however, the band is finally established and professionally efficient after years of practice.
December 27, 1994 :: The Bright & Morning Star Band goes into Vintage Studios in Phoenix, Arizona to begin recording the professional quality CD, Arizona's Calling Me. Gabriel of Urantia refuses to compromise by not performing in non-spiritual venues and begins to try to manifest Future Studios.
1997 :: Arizona's Calling Me album, the new fourth-dimensional sounds of CosmoPop released. Songs: "Wake Up America," "Morning Song," Wish Angel Sandman," "Arizona's Calling Me," "Oh My Niánn," "The Great American Dream," "The Freedom Song," "Holy City."
1997 :: CosmoWorship I, a cassette of spiritual worship songs by Gabriel of Urantia and performed by his Bright & Morning Star choir, released. Songs: "Cosmic Family," "Particle Harmonies," "Let Love Shine," "Tree of Life," "Walk Across the Universe," "Love's Gonna Do It," "Exultet," "Jesus Lullaby," "Be So Kind," "Michael."
1997 :: Gabriel of Urantia Records label becomes Global Change Music Records. Besides Gabriel of Urantia's Bright & Morning Star Band, other in-house bands such as the Starseed Acoustic Ensemble, Planetary Folk Group, and The Change Agents Band begin recording Global Change Music. Gabriel of Urantia puts out a challenge to all musicians world-wide to write higher lyrical content and higher consciousness music. Many new artists are invited to audition for the Global Change Music record label.
1998 :: Corporate-owned media programs NBC Dateline and Entertainment Tonight in tabloid journalism style attempt to discredit Gabriel of Urantia's Global Change Music.
August 1998 :: Gabriel of Urantia's song, "The Morning Song," chosen by the magazine and network, New Age Voice to be included on their International Promo.
January 19, 1999 :: KKUP in Cupertino, California, 91.5 FM, interviewed Gabriel of Urantia on its "Changes Radio" program. DJ Elizabeth Gips discussed with Gabriel of Urantia the fourth-dimensional aspects of his CosmoPop music and the need for individual and global change.
February 7, 1999 :: KDHX 88.1 FM radio in St. Louis, Missouri, featured Gabriel of Urantia & The Bright & Morning Star Band's Arizona's Calling Me CD in a live Internet broadcast on DJ Gabriel's Tin Pan Alley program (just a coincidence that the DJ's name is Gabriel). Gabriel of Urantia discussed with DJ Gabriel the universally popular sounds of CosmoPop™ —Gabriel of Urantia's style of Global Change Music.
1999 :: Gabriel of Urantia's song, "The Freedom Song" listed in the March 1999 Top 20 of the country of Romania.
1999 :: VH1 veers away from its quality programming reputation and instead airs Rock Candy, a distasteful program that cynically attacks alternative artists. Gabriel of Urantia was told that VH1 wanted to spotlight Gabriel as an innovator of a new form of spiritual music. VH1's Rock Candy instead attempted to discredit the work and music of Gabriel of Urantia.
August 25, 2000 :: The Global Change Music web site introduced on the Internet.
August 2000 :: CosmoPop Millennium CD released. Songs: "Cosmic Brides," "Mr. Image Man," "Little Boy Blue," "Forever Friend," "Sedona Sunrise," "As I Love You," "Fused."
November 2000 :: Future Studios, the gathering place for Global Change Music/CosmoPop/Performing Arts/Poetry, is almost ready for February 3, 2001 Grand Opening; keep us in your prayers.
February 3, 2001 :: Grand opening of Future Studios.
2001 :: Beginning of CosmoPop Benefit Concerts at Future Studios on a weekly and monthly basis.
September 18, 2001 :: "Wake Up America" from the Arizona's Calling Me CD featured on KFLX (Flagstaff, Arizona) during an interview with Gabriel of Urantia.
2002 :: Video shoot of the song "Wake Up, America" with Gabriel of Urantia & The Bright & Morning Star Band.
2002 :: Gabriel begins taping interviews with whom he considers other global change artists from around the world with plans to air on satellite.
2001-2003 :: Gabriel & The Bright & Morning Star Band perform in concerts at Future Studios with Clandestine and Thomas Mapfumo & The Blacks Unlimited
September 2004 :: First live taping in Sedona, Arizona featuring Gabriel of Urantia & The Bright & Morning Star in a 2-hour concert for Internet and TV. Later featured on Oasis TV. Also available on DVD. Call 1-866-282-2205 to order.
2005 :: Gabriel of Urantia & The Bright & Morning Star Band win Aurora Award for Best Live Music Concert of 2005.
July 2005 :: Gabriel of Urantia founds the Musicians-That-Need-To-Be-Heard Network, an extension of Global Change Music Nonprofit Record Label which started in 1993.
July 31, 2005 :: First outdoor major CosmoPop Benefit Concert at Wheeler Park, Flagstaff, Arizona.
August 21, 2005 :: Second outdoor major CosmoPop Benefit Concert at City Park, Mount Shasta, California.
November 20 , 2005 :: Third outdoor major CosmoPop Benefit Concert at Reid Park Bandshell, Tucson, Arizona.
April 30, 2006 :: Fourth outdoor major CosmoPop Benefit Concert at Watson Lake Park, Prescott, Arizona
September 11, 2006 :: First World-Wide Webcast of Gabriel of Urantia & the Bright & Morning Star Band and the 9-11 Wake-Up America, Wake-Up World Radical Unity Concert
November 11, 2006 :: Second World-Wide Webcast of Gabriel of Urantia & the Bright & Morning Star Band—11-11 What Does It Really Mean?
January, 2009 :: Energy Master, Gabriel of Urantia's long awaited 6th album released.
Songs "Energy Master", "Edge City", "The Father of Your Moment", "I Know You In Light", "The Seasons of Your Soul", "Tenache", "The Light Has Come Into The World", "I'm Wondering If It's All Real"
