Onyx Bailey

Origins:

My mother says I would sing before I could talk. She said I would sing to myself as an infant at nap times. My father loved to sing and would sing me his "Indian Songs" and play his drum. If he didn't have a drum he would play a metal bowl or pot. Both of my parents had strong disempowerment themes in their lives. My father was a "Half Breed" and my mother was a girl in the man's world of growing up in a logging camp with an older brother that didn't value her. I feel that part of my singing was gifted to me as through their strong desires to be seen and heard. I feel it is to liberate and empower myself and change the energies of these family stories. As I do this work it shifts the energy of the disempowerment stories that many of us share. 
 

I always loved to sing. It has always felt so good. I was passionate and always sang as a young child up until I was a teen. I thought I'd do something with it until I lost my voice for a year from strep throat when I was 18. It took me a long time to come back to finding my voice again. To anchor in my desires to express, transform and empower.
 

Present Expression:

Two years ago I was called to bring people together to pray. I tried to unite people with various beliefs to join together in prayer. I had meetings with people in my community and many conversations. I opened some local events with my own versions of prayer. And then I decided that I would write music as prayers. I do this work for myself, my family, my lineage, my community, the collective, and for love, truth, beauty and the earth. 

Spiritual Journey: 

​questioning

dance

church

prayer,

light meditations,

yoga

shamanism,

Buddhism,

atheism

valuing goodness

empowering love, truth and beauty

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Values: 

Conservative and liberal. 

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