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CosmoPop music is spiritually-based music that emerged in Arizona, USA in the mid 1990s.〔Messina, Irene. (Cosmic Concert ), Tucson Weekly (Arizona) 17-23 Nov. 2005.〕 Its originator Tony Delevin, also known as Gabriel of Urantia, "Gabriel of Sedona" or "TaliasVan of Tora" describes it as “spiritually hip vocal music”〔Etshman, Todd. “CosmoPop to Play Concert at Watson Lake Park.” The Daily Courier (Arizona) 28 Apr. 2006: 37. Print.〕 that addresses the “sufferings of life and the courage of perseverance and hope, which leaves the listener with a new vision for their future.”〔(9/11 Concert Expresses Vision of Radical Unity Through Music ), PR.com, Sedona, AZ, August 17, 2006〕 TaliasVan believes that CosmoPop music originated in the Pleiades and first came to this planet as Celtic music in ancient Glastonbury, then called Avalon. As to the evolution of his spiritual self-discovery and his musical career, he has had these names, starting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the 1960s: Anthony J. Delevin/Tony Delevin/Tee Jay & Duke Quintet/T.J. & The Knight Kaps/Gabriel of Sedona, in the 1990s/Gabriel of Urantia/TaliasVan to present day. CosmoPop music has also been described as multi-dimensional,〔“The Bright & Morning Star Band to Perform.” Kudos–The Good Life, Verde Valley Newspapers, Inc. (Arizona) 1 Sep. 2004: 9. Print.〕 because of its use of several musical genres and styles within a single composition, some of which include rock, pop, folk, jazz, country, soul, Celtic, world, mantra, and mystic.〔〔(Sacred Global CosmoPop Concert & EcoFest ), Vision Magazine (California) Oct. 2009: 1. Print.〕 The Bright & Morning Star Band, his band, consisting of 9 members, performs CosmoPop music.〔“Musical Ambassador Releases Christmas CD, The God Child Came.” Kudos–The Good Life, Verde Valley Newspapers, Inc. (Arizona) 23-29 Nov. 2005: Print.〕 The band uses his lead vocals and background vocals, rhythm guitar, bass, drums, percussions, keyboards, flute, saxophones, trumpet, horns, pennywhistle, and bagpipes.〔(Lake Park Music Event to Benefit Cutting-Edge Social Service Organizations ), PRWeb, Sedona, AZ April 14, 2006〕 ==History== CosmoPop's originator, TaliasVan, started singing at age 6 and performing at age 8 on street corners of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.〔 At age 12, he sang with harmony groups and performed rhythm and blues, or soul music, influenced by the African American culture in his neighborhood at the time.〔Reid, John. “Musician Traces His Roots to Pittsburgh,” Red Rock News (Arizona) 1 Sept. 2004: 10A. Print.〕 At age 15, he initiated his first band “The Fuzzes,” an R&B band.〔〔 TaliasVan began professionally recording in the early 1960s, first with the Snyder recording company in Cleveland, Ohio and then at Gateway Studios in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with Joni Wilson and the Debonairs.〔 He performed and sang lead with T. J. & the Night Kaps,〔 and sang at many night Clubs in Pittsburgh including the Holiday House. At age 24, he began writing spiritual music and compositions 〔 and spent 11 years performing spiritual concerts. He did opening acts for Christian rock bands Petra, Resurrection Band, and Servant at the University of Arizona.〔(Sacred Global CosmoPop Concerts: A Three-Day Festival ), Vision Magazine (California) June 2009: 39. Print.〕〔“Gabriel Trades Horn for Guitar, Brings Contemporary Music to Church.” The South Pittsburgh Reporter 17 Dec. 1985: 3. Print.〕 After years of service in youth ministry organizations across the USA〔 and in his own Son Light Ministries in the 4th Avenue area of Tucson, Arizona〔〔Ratliff, Judith. (Son Light Ministries Reaching Out To Their Fellow Man ), ''The Arizona Daily Star'', 17 Nov. 1979〕 TaliasVan went back to Pittsburgh to record Unicorn Love.〔 After its release, he was featured in the South Pittsburgh Reporter for bringing higher-consciousness music to the American public.〔 In his late thirties in Pittsburgh, TaliasVan joined a Catholic black gospel choir, belonging to the St. Benedict the Moor Catholic Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—when he went back home to record his first vinyl album Unicorn Love in 1985 at Aircraft Studios in Dormont, Pennsylvania.〔〔 He then went to Los Angeles to market his commercial spiritual vocal album, which was the beginning of CosmoPop music. While he was there, he was chosen as lead vocalist with the one-hundred-voice black gospel choir of St. Brigid Catholic Church in Los Angeles, California.〔 As TaliasVan's personal life changed so did his musical style, first called “Luminary.” The music no longer followed the contemporary Christian sound of the time, so he coined the term “New Age Vocal” to describe his Unicorn Love album,〔 which was the first New Age Vocal album, after which others followed.〔 He believed it was the first New Age Vocal album, because he was in Hollywood and Windham Hill rejected his album, saying “New Age music can’t be vocal.” He also noted that in West Hollywood at a New Age music store which his friend managed there were no New Age Vocal albums.〔Harrington, Roderick. “Brings Pioneering ‘New Age Vocal’ to Globe.” AZ Silver Bell 3 Mar. 1988: Print.〕 TaliasVan did not want to identify his work with contemporary Christian music, because he felt he was beyond that consciousness, and thought the only choice at that time was New Age Vocal, but it was the beginning of CosmoPop sound and the first CosmoPop music album.〔 TaliasVan has expressed that because CosmoPop is a new style of music, he has had a difficult time marketing it.〔 In 1986 he met songwriter Al Kasha, winner of 2 Academy Awards for Best Song of the Year for Motion Pictures “We Will Never Love This Way Again” and “The Morning After”. Al Kasha said Unicorn Love was “a wonderful album.”〔 Later, in 1988 he was acknowledged as the pioneer of “New Age Vocal,” which he developed to add lyrical and vocal expression to the spiritual thoughts of instrumental New Age music.〔 He formed a nonprofit record label, Global Change Music, to record and showcase his new CosmoPop brand of music.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「CosmoPop」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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