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Shirlie
Roden hails from Newport, South Wales,
and graduated from Warwick University with a BA
(Hons) in English and European Literature. Author
of the book and cd ‘Sound
Healing’ (now translated into both
Slovene and Hungarian), she is an international
stage performer, workshop leader and sound
healer, teaching the use of the voice as a
healing instrument. She has led workshops and
retreats all over the United Kingdom, as well as
in Australia, Malta, Austria, Croatia, Hungary,
Italy, Poland and for the past twelve years in
Slovenia, where she has received wide acclaim for
her innovative sound work and the healing power
of her singing voice.
Shirlie is the great great granddaughter of
celebrated concert singer and writer, William
Gribbon Ross (described in the 1850s as ‘the
greatest dramatic humorist of the day’) and has
worked extensively as a solo artist in England
and Europe, with six albums of her own material
to her credit: Skydancer, The Path of
Daring, The Child I Knew, The Vanishing Lake,
Endless Love Angels of Sound and most
recently, Simply Slovenia to go
with the book of the same title, co-created with
Slovene photographer Bogdan
Kladnik. Her songs focus on positive
lyrics supported by strong melody, and she has a
keen interest not only in uplifting the spirit
but in strengthening environmental awareness of
the earth. She has also recorded three albums of
traditional songs: Shirlie Sings,
Songsters of the Grove and
Angelski Zvokia, and released an
inner experience double cd with Suzi Quatro,
Free The Butterfly.
Shirlie was co-writer on the highly-successful
West End musical The Roy Orbison
Story (nominated for a Best Musical
Olivier Award). Her Joan of Arc musical Jeanne
was the first rock opera to be performed at
Sadlers Wells Theatre, London, and she was
co-writer with Willie Rushton
and Suzi Quatro on
Tallulah Who? (Queen’s Theatre
Hornchurch) and with John Kane
on the Old Testament musical
AD/BC (Pennsylvania University
USA). Other works include original music and
lyrics for Sue Townsend’s play
Bazaar and Rummage, the national
tour of Paddington Bear’s Magical
Musical, Beauty and the Beast for
Liverpool Playhouse,
Counterpoint at the GateHouse
London, and she has also written book, music and
lyrics for a musical adaptation of
Richard Llewellyn’s famous Welsh
novel How Green was my Valley.
Acting credits include Fruma Sara with
Topol in Fiddler on the
Roof at the Manchester Opera House,
Musetta in La Boheme at the
Kammer Oper in Vienna, the Narrator in
Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor
Dreamcoat, and Prison Officer Meg
Jackson in the stage version of cult Australian
drama Prisoner Cell block H,
plus all six wives in the comedy musical
The Complete wives of Henry VIII
on tour and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Shirlie has also worked in rock music with such
artists as Ray Davies and the Kinks, Mike
Oldfield, Ultravox, David Gilmore, Ian Gillan,
Suzi Quatro and Hot
Chocolate and has featured as voice-over
artist on many radio and tv commercials.
