emmy-winning
singer & songwriter
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Her music can be heard on tv & film with her five artist releases, as a session singer working with such artists as Sheila E., Luther Vandross, & Jon Secada, & w ith her songs recorded by artists around the world from her hometown of Hawaii to Japan, Canada, & Malaysia.
As a positive music artist, Faith has been featured in concerts throughout the country from a Hawaii performance with the Honolulu Symphony, a keynote presentation at Bowdoin University in Maine, and work with best-selling author Neale Donald Walsch in the Hamptons to her first international performance in Costa Rica.
She serves as the Entertainment Coordinator for the annual Womens Festival of the Arts in Long Beach, the Los Angeles Chapter Coordinator for worldwide songwriting organization Just Plain Folks, and as the U.S. Music & Performing Arts Coordinator for Humanity's Team. Her third release "Wonder" features Emmy-winning song "Forever Near " & her inspiratonal video for "Wonder" has recently won Best Music Video at the San Fernando Valley's International Film Festival. Faith's latest release "Suncatcher" features an eclectic collection of hip & sacred songs from ukulele-infused "In the Morning", to multi-lingual meditative instrumental & chant piece "Song of One," to "Women of Today," an anthem song being used by different women's retreats, conferences, goddess festivals.
Faith Rivera is a pop songwriter, session singer, artist & a 2003 Daytime Emmy award winner for Outstanding Original Song featured on NBC's "Passions."
Awards & Honors
o2005 Best Music Video "Wonder" at the San Fernando Valley International Film Festival
o2005 Named Humanity's Team U.S. Music & Performing Arts Coordinator
o2004 Professional Fellowship Award
(Public Corporation of the Arts, Long Beach)
o2004 Hawaii Music Award AC Album of the Year
(Daniel Ho: Simple as a Sunrise)
o2004 Named Los Angeles Chapter Coordinator for
Just Plain Folks (worldwide songwriting org)
o2002-2003 Emmy Winner for Outstanding Orginal Song: “Forever Near” on NBC's Passions
o2003 Community Service Awards from the City & County of L.A., California State Senate, California State Assembly
o2002-Present Entertainment Coordinator for the annual Women's Festival of the Arts in Long Beach, CA
o2003-2004 ASCAP Plus Award Recipient
o2002 Just Plain Folks Dance Song of the Year Award
o2001 Hawaii Music Award AC Album of the Year (Daniel Ho: Finding My Way)
Aries
Kauai-born
Oahu-raised
1st Generation Filipina
CSULB Grad
Dancer wanna-be
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