And....2 more performers' bios for the Peace Day broadcasts!

We get to experience 7 very diverse performers on the Peace Day broadcast, and in preceeding blog posts we have given bios for 5 of them (in no particular order) - so these are the final two bios - enjoy! 

Jehnean Washington, who will open the program celebrating Peace Day, is a multi talented artist, descended from the Yuchi, Seminole and Shoshone nations, and hails from the house of the storyteller. She is from the hodulgulgee clan and comes from a long line of singers, musicians and traditional healers. 

She is a graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City. Jehnean has worked professionally for over 30 years, not only as a singer/song writer and musician but also in the entertainment industry’s venues of film, television, radio, voice overs, concerts, and live theater. Jehnean has performed with the prestigious Mahenwahdose productions theater company and has also served as assistant Artistic and Musical director for the legendary American Indian Theater Company. She is an Ensemble member of Native Voices at the Autry of Los Angeles, California and is a recognized and archived actress, voice over artist, singer, songwriter, musician and storyteller with the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. 

Her original arrangement and rendition of the "Trail of Tears Song" can be heard on the Grammy nominated album, "Song of America" produced by the Grammy Award winning producer David Macias, and as a featured singer on the NAMMY award winning album SIIB. She also wrote, performed and produced the Native American rock anthem “I Fly With You” along with the Native American musical staple, “The Greeting Song.” In her musical career she has performed and shared the stage with music greats and rock legends Buffy Sainte-Marie (Oscar Winner for the song "Up Where We Belong"), Bobby Kimball ( lead singer of Toto), Ant Glynne (Rick Wakeman band, Asia and Slash), Teddy Andreadis (Carol King and The Box Masters with Billy Bob Thornton), Butch Taylor (Dave Mathews Band), Johnny Griparic (Slash), Ulali, Indigo Girls, Keith Secola, Barbara McAlister, Van Anh Vo, Du Yun, Raven Chacon, Grady Nichols - and the list goes on. 

Jehnean also sings opera with the renowned Los Angeles-based alternative opera company, The Industry. 

Jehnean has for many years been a Listen For Life artist, performing (along with Naser Musa and LFL founder Donna Stoering) in our cross-cultural LFL Sound Collectors shows for International Peace Day celebrations in years past.  She is also the owner of the Los Angeles-based film company Lighthorsewoman Productions, and co-wrote the award-winning screenplay for the movie RAVE. 

Jehnean says,“One of my greatest joys in life is singing. It is the universal language the world can come together and enjoy.” 

Instagram sites: Jehnean2 and jehnean_washingtonmusic.

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Stephen Guggenheim, who will be the final solo performer on the special Peace Day program, is that rare breed of tenor who is internationally active in a wide variety of vocal styles and settings, from serving as a Hebrew cantor in renowned Jewish synagogues to starring in musicals and Broadway song cycles, to highly acclaimed performances of leading operatic roles throughout the world.

Stephen was a participant in the Merola Opera Program with the San Francisco Opera where he was awarded an Adler Fellowship His opera career highlights include singing the roles of Tito in La Clemenza di Tito and Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor with the San Francisco Opera, Don Jose in Carmen with L'Opera de Lyon and on tour to Guam and Japan with the San Francisco Opera and Rodolfo in La Boheme with the San Francisco Opera in Japan. Stephen originated the title role in Thea Musgrave's Simon Bolivar with Virginia Opera as well as at Royal Albert Hall in London for the BBC Proms with the BBC Scottish Symphony. Other engagements have included singing the roles of Canio in I Pagliacci; Il Duca in Rigoletto (in Minnesota, California and Malta!), Gustavo in Un Ballo in Maschera and the title roles in Werther, Don Carlos and Les Contes des Hoffmann, among many others.

In musical theatre, Stephen was honored as Best Leading Actor by BroadwayWorld.com for his performance as Bill Todson in Thanks for Playing...The Game Show Show! He is a private voice teacher and also serves as Resident Musical Director for a professional live theater production company he owns with his brother, called  Guggenheim Entertainment. Through that company he has an ongoing role as co-director and star of musical theatre productions in repertory at the 3Below Theater in San Jose, California, where his most recent performances and productions there have been in Sondheim on Sondheim, as Moishe/Marvin in The People in the Picture, and as John Jasper in The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Last year he gave 20 performances there in the starring role of A spoonful of Sherman

As an educator, Stephen teaches voice, audition technique, and musical theatre and opera appreciation privately and in musical theatre workshops for community theatres and institutions. He also continues to serve as a Synagogue Cantor whenever possible.

Stephen made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2014 singing Stephen Paulus’s To Be Certain of The Dawn. Recent performances in Los Angeles involved his singing the role of Mayor Gronam Schmegegi in The MeshugaNutcracker!, an original musical that he co-wrote and co-directed. On screen, he was last seen in over 400 cinemas nationwide when the film version of The MeshugaNutcracker premiered with Fathom Events Films.

Stephen has done several different Notes for Nourishment concerts on both coasts of the USA with LFL founder and Artistic Director, Donna Stoering, raising funds for a variety of nonprofit organizations. Last summer the two of them gave two different NFN programs and a special program on "Jewish music from the Stetl to Broadway", as featured artists within the famed Piccolo Spoleto Festival of Charleston South Carolina.

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