Enter The Light by Angela Fischetti

At 25, she stopped performing altogether as she got more involved in producing showcase theater in New York City. During this time, her passion for fitness began to grow. Ultimately, she would leave the world of the stage altogether, devoting herself entirely to fitness as a personal trainer for 16 years.

Angela's work with infirm and ill clients represented her first step toward a more spiritual approach to fitness. Personal events in the months leading to 9/11 only reinforced this path. Angela had already made plans to move to South Florida when a dear pet - a cat named Honey Bunny who had accompanied her through all of life's tribulations for over twenty years - passed away. Honey Bunny's passing left Angela with a sense of futility regarding her career; there had to be more than lifting weights.

Three weeks after 9/11, Angela moved to Miami Beach, having known at least 300 people who perished as a result of that event. On the wake of the tragedy, she became a student once again, this time at Synergy Center for Yoga and the Healing Arts, enrolling in teacher training course during which she would become familiar with bhakti yoga. Her father passed away four weeks into the course, and Angela found herself performing the required sadhana on the flights to and from New York.

In the depths of personal and collective grief, Angela rediscovered her first love: singing. Through yoga, she found a way of expressing not only her passion for fitness, but greater depth in the art of singing, which was now inextricably linked to the art of healing and the path of devotion.Thirty-six years after first hearing Judy Garland sing at the record store, Angela retraced the steps of her amazing life journey. She started to work with Arrow as her vocal coach, who later became producer for ENTER THE LIGHT. She also started to lead kirtan at Synergy Center for Yoga and the Healing Arts.

Angela's inspiration for ENTER THE LIGHT, the title song of her first album, came when she saw a shimmering light entering her Miami Beach apartment - a subtle glimmer that landed on a framed photograph of Judy Garland standing under a spotlight. She knew then that her father had passed away, or rather, had entered the light.Angela currently studies singing with Miami's Mary Walkley. She is also studying harmonium and music theory and is working with Arrow on the production of two more albums that will represent a musical trilogy.

Angela also teaches power and hatha yoga in the Greater Miami/Miami Beach area at Ironworks, Curves, Mpower Project, senior centers, condominium complexes and yoga studios, and is available for private lessons.

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