TaliasVan has a long history in music and in service to planetary concerns. His own musical journey has evolved into a commitment to his destiny to help bring global change to the world, through Global Change Music® and his unique CosmoPop® (CosmoPop has also evolved into a form of music known today as Conscious Pop) — "Vocal music of the future for minds of the future"—a beginning fourth-dimensional musical and lyrical experience. He believes that higher-consiousness music does not have to be rote, or square and that a person with higher consciousness is actually more hip while experiencing CosmoPop.
1958 :: Started singing as a youth with street corner harmony groups.
The Fuzzes (Young TaliasVan is third from left in front with grey suit on.)
Center--TaliasVan singing lead.
1964 :: Took first place at the Connelley Vocational High's music contest and awarded second place at all-city talent contest.
TaliasVan at Snyder Studios
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.
TaliasVan, 31 years old, Tucson, Arizona, 1977
Arizona TaliasVan (left) and Hollywood TaliasVan (right) 1986 Trick Photography 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 :: TaliasVan featured in the South Pittsburgh Reporter; recognized for bringing higher-consciousness music to the American public.
December 27, 1985 :: Message music of Unicorn Love album marketed in Hollywood, California. Was pioneering the genre now known as "New Age Vocal."
The Unicorn Love vinyl album
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.
1988 :: Performs at the Cobre Center for the Arts in Cobre Valley, Arizona. Also, "The Hour of Enlightenment" premiers on KIKO radio.
1988 :: Recognized as the pioneer of "New Age Vocal" by Global Reporter Newspaper.
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 path of wanting to change the world. The patience and pain of waiting for the right musicians is a constant trial. Many musicians fail to meet the mark of humility, sacrifice, and service to humanity. However, the band is finally established and professionally efficient after years of practice.
TaliasVan at Billy Moss's Vintage Studios in Phoenix, Arizona
1997 :: Holy City 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, an album of cosmic worship songs by TaliasVan 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 :: Global Change Music Non-Profit Record Label records TaliasVan's 40-voice Bright & Morning Star Band, and other in-house bands such as Van'sGuard, the Starseed Acoustic Ensemble, Planetary Folk Group, and The Change Agents Band begin recording Global Change Music. TaliasVan 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 label.
1998 :: Corporate-owned media programs NBC Dateline and Entertainment Tonight in tabloid journalism style attempt to discredit TaliasVan's Global Change Music.
August 1998 :: TaliasVan'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 TaliasVan on its "Changes Radio" program. DJ Elizabeth Gips discussed with TaliasVan 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 TaliasVan & The Bright & Morning Star Band's Holy City CD in a broadcast on DJ Gabriel's Tin Pan Alley program. TaliasVan discussed with DJ Gabriel the universally popular sounds of CosmoPop™ —TaliasVan's style of Global Change Music.
1999 :: TaliasVan's song, "The Freedom Song" (written for Nigerian freedom fighter Ken Saro-Wiwa) 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. TaliasVan was told that VH1 wanted to spotlight him as an innovator of a new form of alternative conscious music. VH1's Rock Candy instead attempted to discredit TaliasVan's work and music.
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."
February 3, 2001 :: Grand opening of Future Studios, the gathering place for Global Change Music/CosmoPop/Performing Arts/Poetry.
2001 :: Beginning of CosmoPop Benefit Concerts at Future Studios on a weekly and monthly basis.
September 18, 2001 :: "Wake Up America" from the Holy City CD featured on KFLX (Flagstaff, Arizona) during an interview with TaliasVan.
2002 :: Video shoot of the song "Wake Up, America" with TaliasVan & The Bright & Morning Star Band.
2002 :: TaliasVan begins taping interviews with those artists whom he considers to be other global change artists from around the world with plans to air on satellite.
TaliasVan, 2003
From the taped September 4, 2004 CosmoPop Benefit Concert
2005 :: TaliasVan & The Bright & Morning Star Band win Aurora Award for Best Live Music Concert of 2005.
July 2005 :: TaliasVan founds the Musicians-That-Need-To-Be-Heard Network, an extension of Global Change Music Nonprofit Record Label which started in 1993.
Wheeler Park, Flagstaff, AZ
City Park, Mt. Shasta, CA
Reid Park, Tucson, AZ
December 2005 :: TaliasVan releases his CosmoChristmas CD, The God Child Came.
Watson Lake Park, Prescott, AZ
September 11, 2006 :: First Worldwide Webcast of TaliasVan & 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 TaliasVan & the Bright & Morning Star Band— 11-11 What Does It Really Mean?
TaliasVan, members of the Bright & Morning Star Band & interviewer Carl Fiske
The Bright & Morning Star Band on the stage at Avalon Organic Gardens & EcoVillage
October, 2009 :: Second Tubac/Tumacácori Global CosmoPop Concert and Eco-Fest
TaliasVan and solar power cells that powered the Be Aware festival stage.
May 22, 2011 :: Played at the 2nd Be Aware Festival in Tumacácori, Arizona
June 24, 2011 :: Played at the Berger Performing Arts Center in Tucson, Arizona
July 6, 2011 :: TaliasVan interviewed on Four Corners talk radio show "The Painful Truth" with Sean Osborn and Mike Logue.
July 8, 2011 :: Played at Ft. Lewis College in Durango, Colorado
July 12, 2011 :: TaliasVan interviewed on KTAO, Taos New Mexico radio station.
