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Suzanne
Doucet Biography (full english)
Suzanne
Doucet is a former entertainment Star from Europe, the President & Founder of
ONLYNEWAGEMUSIC, Inc. and the International NEWAGEMUSIC Network. She
became one of the pioneers in the NEWAGEMUSIC industry in West Germany
and is now recognized as one of the foremost authorities on the subject
worldwide. She has lived in the USA since 1983.
"I devote my total being to whatever I'm doing," says Suzanne
Doucet, president of ONLYNEWAGEMUSIC, Inc. (a conglomerate that includes,
the ONLYNEWAGEMUSIC / BEYOND record labels and marketing-consulting services) and founder of
the International New Age Music Network & Conference. This principle
is the underlying factor in Doucet's success and has seen her through many
transitional phases of her illustrious career.
It all began in West Germany where as a three year old, Doucet discovered
an innate talent for all art forms. Instinctively, she was always drawing,
playing music, singing, writing, etc. By the age of 18, Suzanne was an
established POP-STAR in Germany. Her earliest songwriting ventures centered
on poetic lyrics dealing with life, love and other deep issues. But in
order to get an opportunity to record these 'message' songs, she initially
performed a variety of POPTUNES. She was several times #1 in Germany
with songs such as the cover version of "Be my Baby" and many
others. Her first self produced visionary album was called "Red as
a Ruby," which today still receives consistent air play in Europe.
She also made her mark as a composer , as an actress and a T.V.
Moderator and was seen regularly on nationwide T.V. in Germany and Switzerland.
During this period she also learned everything from dubbing, directing,
scriptwriting, engineering and editing to producing and marketing. All
these skills would later be put to the test when Doucet wrote several
TV plays, wrote and produced Radio & TV Commercials and began manufacturing
and distributing her own products.
Suzanne signed with LIBERTYRECORDS in 1968 and recorded with LESREED
(Tom Jones' producer) in England. She released her first single in the
US "Swan Song" (Bee Gees) and recorded "Suzanne Doucet
International" an album in seven different languages. Suzanne had
already traveled all Europe, the far East and the United states by the
age of 25, when she took a sabbatical from the music business to go on
a spiritual odyssey. She financed her travels by releasing a consciousness
- expanding sound collage trilogy Trip/Flip out/Meditation. on Phonogram
in 1970. She returned in 1971 and continued her work in the music business.
For the next ten years, she developed her own style of new age music while
exploring many areas of metaphysics including astrology, music therapy,
tarot, yoga and the cabbalah. "This was my going within period,"
says Doucet. "My father who is a psychologist had studied with Carl
GustavJung and this led to my researching the metaphysics of music, specifically
the Pythagorean school of harmonics." She also headed up the A&R
department for a small record label in Munich and produced over 30 records
with German and French artists. She wrote many songs for herself and her
colleagues. Well known artists such as Mirreille Matthieuw, Wencke Myrre,
Mike Brandt, Rex Gildo, Margot Werner, Udo Juergens, Vivi Bach, Anja Hauptmann,
Judy Winter, Thomas Fritsch a.m.o have recorded Suzanne's songs, and she
worked with Stars such as Donna Summer, Keith Forsey, Harold Faltermeyer
and many others. In 1974 she married the actor Raphael Wilczek. She recorded
"In Essig & Oel" in 1975 the first New Age Song Album in
Europe. And in 1976 Suzanne's daughter Natascha was born in Munich.
Suzanne formed her own Isis Music record label in 1979 and released her
second New Age Song Album "Reisefieber". This revolutionary
label included her music as well as collaborator, Christian Buehner and
artists Karl Schaffner, Lothar Grimm, and Al Gromer Khan. Inspired by
the success of producing and composing two guided meditation albums for
Thorwald Dethlefsen (a famous spiritual teacher in Europe), she released
her first instrumental album "Transformation" (1982) followed
by "Transmission" (1983) then a Sampler entitled Sounds of the
New Age. In 1983 Doucet realized her life-long dream of moving with her
daughter Natascha to California. With new husband James Bell, they began
a grass-roots campaign of distributing Isis Music via the alternative
- holistic network.
After travelling cross country several times James and Suzanne moved to
Santa Cruz in Northern California where Shaman, their son was born in
1986 - to the sounds of New Age Music of course!Joel Andrews had sent
Suzanne a special tape he composed to be used at childbirth. Paul Andrews,
the owner of the Whole Life Expo convinced Suzanne and James to return
to Hollywood where they established Only New Age Music, in 1987 the world's
first specialized new age music retail outlet. From the moment the store
opened in the trendy Melrose district, it became the local hub for aficionados
and other visionary artists. Robert Redford, Sylvester Stallone, Prince,
Steve Martin, Michael Nouri, William Schattner, Sonja Braga and other
Stars bought regularly at Only New Age Music. Simultaneously, Doucet established
the International New Age Music Network which has grown from 15 members
to over 400.
During late 1987, Doucet established the U.S. Record label Beyond which
was a combination of her creative efforts with Isis Music and with other
international artists with whom she shared a passion for traditional new
age music. There were 10 releases in the Only New Age Music catalog including
8 Beyond titles, and two new 1990 releases. They are Sensitive Heart's
debut album Heart Life & Tom Doerr's Andromeda. Also included was
the award winning visual music Videotape Star Flight.Suzanne's Music "Forever"
from her album "Reflecting Light was used by Shirley Maclaine on
the best-seller Video and Audio Tapes "Inner Workout" and "Going
Within".
Doucet's non-profit association, the International New Age Music Network
met annually to connect the worldwide community at-large. INAMC 91 was
the third annual international New Age Music Conference which attracted
over 500 international members of the New Age Music community to gather
and share their ideas. Suzanne also produced the first "New Age World
Music Festival" at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles with 22 different
New Age Music Artists, such as Paul Horn, Steven Kindler , Dik Darnell
and Stephen Halpern.
Suzanne also maintains a busy practice as a music marketing consultant.
She provides valuable information to small labels and she is currently
spearheading the distribution & marketing efforts for Sequoia records,
TruArtRecords, First Light Music, Liquid Mind . Previous clients included
Sonic images with Ex Tangerine Dream member Christopher Franke (Celestine
Prophecy), Akwara (a group from Chile) Aladdin Records. and other small
labels as well as the video Star Flight, which she directed and co-produced
with Chris Toussaint. Star Flight received the Silver Award at the Houston
International Film & Video Festival.
She met the producer, singer and voice teacher Chuck Plaisance in 1992.
They visualized a binaural audio production concept, that became reality
in 1997. "Sounds of Nature". Chuck and Suzanne produced a series
of 35 CDs with pure Nature Sounds and 23 CDs with Nature Sounds and Music
for special markets.
Looking to the future, Doucet is optimistic about the new age music genre.
Doucet's career has placed her in the forefront of the mushrooming new
age music movement. "People all over the world become more and more
inner directed", she says, "New Age Music is the music of the
new millenium. We are all pioneers, our work is on the vibrational level,
which is the essence of all being. Our inner environment and the outer
environment are co-dependent. This is the reason why music is so important
for our lives. Whatever I can do to bring consciousness expanding music
to as many people as possible, I'll do... and I'll devote my total being
to whatever I am doing!"
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