Francesca Genco
(Vocalist - album:
Northern Seas)
Francesca is a singer and sound healer, yoga instructor, bodyworker and interdisciplinary arts teacher. She is the founder of Song of the Body, in the San Francisco Bay area, California, USA. Francesca released Numinous River, her solo album of improvised Sanskrit chants, in 2008. She has also collaborated with Troels Folmann, a Danish film composer, to create a voice library for Tonehammer. She is presently embarking on several projects with composers from the US and Europe.
Francesca's voice was featured in composer Kaveh Cohen's Japanese trailer for James Cameron's blockbuster film, Avatar, and has been heard on TV's CSI. In 2009, Francesca wrote The Next Buddha for Anna Halprin's Planetary Dance, a three-part song designed to be sung by communities coming together to create positive change in the world. She plans to teach this song to communities all over the globe as an affirmation of the deep interconnectedness of all beings.