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Deanna Edwards, known internationally for her service of love, sings in 16 languages, has written over 300 songs, produced 15 recordings and published 3 books. Her music has been selected for use in the 1974 NBC News Special on Death and Dying, the theme song for the national Hospice movement, and used in films produced by the American Journal of Nursing, Batesville Management Services and the American Health Care Association. Deanna has appeared eight times on the nationally syndicated show "Christopher Close Up", and was featured on a national television special in South Africa. She served for three years on the Foundation Board of Directors for the American College of Health Care Administrators, and on the advisory board for Senior Community Services in South Dakota. Deanna has studied education and music therapy at Utah State and Illinois State Universities. She is an adjunct faculty lecturer in the Music Therapy Department at Utah State University. Deanna and her husband Cliff, are the founders of Rock Canyon Music Publishers. |
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| Deanna travels thousands of miles each year and devotes hundreds of hours to workshops held throughout the United States, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand and Israel. She utilizes music in her lectures, as well as therapeutic work with patients and residents. She has a deep interest in music therapy and her workshops prepare us for the most exciting of all adventures - a musical journey into the human heart. Deanna has created the first musical library for persons with special needs, adding a valuable contribution to musical literature. She sings about life and all its experiences, both pleasant and painful. Most of all, she is a sensitive human being who sings to bring peace to the sick, the dying and the elderly. Deanna's music and message are for everyone; everyone who has ever laughed, ever cried ... ever been afraid of the unknown. |
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Deanna recieved the Outstanding Young Woman of the Year for the state of Utah in 1978, the Distinguished Service to Mankind award in 1983 from the Orem, Utah chapter of Sertoma International, and was selected as one of 50 American Heroines by the Ladies Home Journal in it's July 4, 1984 issue. Her appearance, "Voice for the Hurting", with Sacred Heart Radio in St. Louis, Missouri, won her the prestigious New York Radio Festival Award and the Religion in Media's Angel Award.