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This wonderful email from https://ijm.org/ made my day. I am so honored to have been one of the many women from 32 countries who raised money to #StopSlavery. One Love… Aria, we can’t begin anywhere else but thank you. We’ve been so inspired by the Dressember movement and how you brought your family and friends…

Music, Money & Media Although I had a Facebook account before my music dropped, I was really a voyeur; watching but not participating. Since releasing my “Smile” musical project last year, I have had the privilege of meeting & communicating with thousands of fans and musical artists on social media. Twitter and Facebook are buzzing…

The way humans treat our home, Earth, you would think we could just beam onto a spaceship and fly off to another hospitable planet, like Star Trek’s crew.  Dumping toxic waste in the oceans, destroying the rain forests, polluting the air as if it’s all a game; where we can hit restart, and everything’s cool. …

Merry New Year!  I can barely believe that today is the last day of my Dressember #StopSlavery campaign.  I pray that everyone who has learned of the existence of 21st century slavery commits to doing something to end this horrific practice.  There is power in knowledge and action. As we begin 2015, may we resolve…

Merry Christmas! Today I made a special prayer for a miracle – that there will be FREEDOM for all enslaved children. Each day of December I am wearing a dress and seeking donations be made to https://support.dressemberfoundation.org/fundraise?fcid=372272 100% of all funds will be given to International Justice Mission.  https:ijm.org YOUR DONATIONS ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE. This vintage red cotton…

When you help somebody who is in a way worse situation than you, there’s no time to obsess about your teeny weeny problems. Whether it’s a word of encouragement, a SMILE, respite to family with special needs child, delivering food to sick and shut in, donating to #StopSlavery, etc, I encourage you to lend a…

Thanks and One Love to all my supporters and fans who have encouraged me on this social justice journey to #StopSlavery.  Someone called my efforts “noble” while another wrote that I was “at best idealistic and at worst a fool.” I am merely an artist who uses music to spread the message of LOVE, PEACE…

UK syndicated radio show The Spread added Aria Elan “Smile” to playlist starting December 23, 2014. Showtimes are: Monday – 4pm – 7pm – Total Radio UK – www.total-radio.co.uk Monday – 7pm – 10pm – WRFN1025 – www.wrfn1025.com Friday – 7pm – 10pm – Addicted 2 Music Radio – www.a2mradio.com Saturday – 8am – 11am…

What if we had the same compassion and love for a stranger who was suffering as we did for people we know? Matthew 22:37-40 37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great…

I am standing up to the “masters” and raising money to help free enslaved children. If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything. “Power concedes nothing without a demand.” Frederick Douglass. I read selective passages from Frederick Douglass’ autobiography “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave.” The same kind…