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Michaele Alyras de Cygne

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Bio
"Be curious long enough, and you end up being able to do a lot of things"
-- Michaele de Cygne

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  • Musica: Vocalist*; Multi-instrumentalist; Songwriter; Lyricist; Composer; MIDI Composer; Arranger;   Orchestrator; Copyist; Director; Producer

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  • Performing Arts: Dancer; Actor; Storyteller; Stage Manager                          
  • Audio: Audio Editor; Recording Engineer; Sound Designer
  • Visual Arts: Visual Artist; Graphic Artist; Wood Sculptor
  • Literature: (Expository) Writer; Poet; Researcher; Editor
  • Health: Sound Healer; Reiki Practitioner
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  • Spirituality: Cleric; Teacher; Counselor
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  • Tech: Web Designer; Software Developer; Data Center Technician
  • Terra: Landscape Designer


    • * Sung Languages: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian, Italian, Japanese, Turkish, Hebrew, Quenya

Music Life and Career Details

1959-1982ish

Michaele (Alyras) is a highly gifted, highly talented, high achiever. Michaele's musical life began at age two, when her mother discovered that she could contrapuntally improvise on the piano--in harmony. By age 16, she had learned to play 16 musical instruments. With a vocal range of more than 4 octaves, and having performed all instruments on nearly all of her recordings, since the age of 17, (technically inspired by Prince), Michaele has spent most of her career as a self-contained artist; regardless of the genre in which she has chosen to perform. Nonetheless, starting in her junior year of high school, she has worked as a performer, (lead vocalist, keyboardist, percussionist, and bassist), band leader and music director. She has also collaborated, and worked with several great minds, artists, and musicians, including Warren Giancatarino, Jeff Rona, Don Freeman, Al Collins, Philip Woo, Michael Carlson, Lenny Kravitz, Masayuki Koga, Melissa (Missy) Weaver, John Duykers, Avelina Brown-Nuñez, Brian Avnet, Richard Rudolph, George Murphy, Susan Elizabeth Bohlin, Katastrophe, Amanda Moody, Clark Suprynowicz, Gwen Avery, George Coates, Angel Kwan Yin, Robert Morgan, Patricia Lynnecheyenne Tinker, Ashley Wai'olu Moore, Kathleen McGuire, Vonette Yanaginuma, Stevie Bensusen, Glen Velez, Melissa Morgan, Denny Carlson, Norman Dozier, Jeffrey Chin, and San Francisco's OmniCircus, and Transcendence Gospel Choir.New Edition


1982-2006

In the mid-1980's, Michaele signed her first production deal with 8 Mile/John Lodge Productions, in LA. Soon thereafter, both A&M Record's John McClain chose Michaele to be the "Paul McCartney" to Lenny Kravitz's "John Lennon" to start a "Black Beatles", (prior Lenny's first album). Simultaneously, (thanks to the help of producer, Dick Rudolph, manager Brian Avnet and artists Don Freeman and Warren Giancatarino), MCA Records and Universal Music were wooing her for a solo recording and co-publishing deals. [As all that was happening, Michaele also started a family. Brian encouraged her to take the MCA deal; which she did, (thus inspiring Lenny to stop trying to collaborate with other lead person artists, and convince his father to fund his first album.) Unfortunately, she signed with MCA deal during Mercury Retrograde, and could not see that every one of the people who had faciitated the deal, (Dick, Brian, the then head of Black Music A&R, and the key person at Universal) were all going to be leaving her within 30 days of the deal; (Dick to produce Timothy B. Schmidt's solo album, Brian to handle family matters, and the others bailing MCA and Universal for Motown, and other publishing opportunities. She could also not foresee that MCA would be completely revising its Black Music division away from adult-oriented music, like hers, to teen music, e.g. Shanice and New Edition; and that the combination of her working allies bailing, and the new regime at MCA not being into artists making music like her, including Gladys Knight, Stephanie Mills, Joe Sample, and Colonel Abrams, would criticially impair her music career for the next 3 decades. That experience also left Gladys and Stephanie jaded, Joe in a serious mental health crisis, and Michaele feeling professionally betrayed and abandoned.)

During those decades, (with facilitating help of Beth Dispenza, Scott Baral, Foster Perry, and the personal tutelage of Dr. Barbara Hero), she translated the Mayan Sacred Calendar (Tzolkin) into sound, and began to produce consciousness enhancement audio software. Soon thereafter, her life, and career were sidelined by Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS); which led her to discovering how powerfully effective the Tzolkin software is in counteracting the effects of CFS, and into a very, very, very deep rabbit hole. Transiting that rabbit hole Journey, she shifted her pro activities [in 1997] into Information Technology (IT), spending the next 20 years primarily working her way from the roof of that arena to the foundation, i.e. from call center tech support to major Silicon Valley [200 Paul Ave.] data center technician--with a brief hiatus from the arena to become the leading MIDI ringtone composer for Faith West/Moderati. Responding to her frustration from people most frequently mispronouncing her name, (whilst ministering with San Francisco's  "Transcendence Gospel Choir", she dropped using her first name, preferring to be known by her middle name, "Alyras".


2007-COVID

In December 2007, she receiving a Calling into ministry. (She had already been an ordained minister for 15 years, having done so to formally facilitate her service to the Dark Goddess aspect of Holy Spirit; knowing that she would eventually be called into some form of music ministry, but having no clue to whom she would be so ministering.) Specifically, she was Called into Elven Music ministry; (the "M" being capitalized to indicate sacred rather than secular). Joining Elven language (Quenya) translator, she formed the duo, "Iluvamil", and became a member of the Elven spiritual community, "Tie eldalieva" (T-e). With T-e's help, she intuitively, experientially determined that the Valar in J. R. R. Tolkien's "Silmarillion" are literal, not ficitious, and became one of the communities primary spiritual teachers. Unsure of whether she was actually being calling into Elven ministry, Michaele spent the next 10 years burning out in, and departing from IT; building a new line of brain enhancement software to counter the synaptic damage induced by PTSD; from the Ainur (both Valar and Maiar), and to produce demos for an Iluvamil EP, two unreleased Bossa Nova CDs, and a 45-minute, Pop-centric solo stage show ["Jesus Christ Sex Symbol"] advocating for transgender Christian youth.

In 2016, after studying with Sylvia Nakkach, Dr. John Beaulieu, Loriel Star, Glen Velez, and other renowned esoteric music teachers, she received certification as a sound healer from the California Institute of Integral Studies. In 2018, after spending 15,000 hours in development, she release the first version of "Rebound", and DreAM software. In 2019, Michaele practically single-handedly established T-e as a charitable trust, with the trust also being the umbrella for "Yana eldalieva", the world's first legitimate, IRS-recognized Elven church. Later that year, on the December Full Moon, at San Francisco's China Beach, the Valie, "Nienna", gave Michaele undeniable, miraculous proof of her material existence; thus galvanizing her focus on her Elven music ministry, and inspiring her to establish "Elvenspirit" as an independent Elven spiritual organization, advancing T-e Work in a musically focused direction, and to write "The Way of the Elven Spiritual Path :: Book II: Initiation" to enable everyone who wishes to explore Elven spirituality to do so in alignment with the sacred such tradition established by T-e.


COVID-Present

During COVID, Michaele decided to be known professionally by her first name again, and to make Alyas a virtual artist via an avatar, and to program Alyras' vocals rather than singing them. As a vocalist, she restored her focus to her first love, improvisation. Currently, Michaele is living in Minneapolis, MN, and is in the early stages of developing Elven devotional music. At the time of this writing, it is Oct. 2022. Michaele has redirected her Elven spiritual teaching activities to advance the Work of "Elven Spiritual Path", another charitable trust which she founded under the auspices of Elvenspirit, and has launched a software NFT, "TzolChing Express" in advance of the later release of "TzolChing Deluxe". Her plans for 2023 are to complete the line of Elven devotional music, to record vocals on the Bossa Nova albums, to begin producing music for artist, Amy Barbera, to deeply explore learning Elven Music from the Ainur (both Valar and Maiar) in the context of piano-accompanied, healing, solo voice-as-instrument Jazz-EDM.
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