“Afia has always enjoyed music but never would have imagined becoming a composer. Her mental health struggles begun in May 2015 and the good LORD used songs to comfort her. Today, she envisions that those same songs can empower others struggling with Mental Health. But then new original songs started coming to her. It is a joy and honor to birth “The Anointing breaks the yoke” project.
Basic Music Piano Teacher and Prayer Partner
Fundraiser and Prayer Partner
“Stephanie knows how to fundraise! She and Afia got close while taking a Lay Counseling class at their Church.
Vocalist and Banker
Minister, Clinical Psychologist and Medical Officer
LEAD CELLIST.
Charlotte Roberts’ career has spanned more than 40 years, and has taken her from her hometown of Richmond, Virginia, to the halls of Washington, D.C. and Europe, encompassing a wide variety of musical styles, events and experiences.
Lead Pianist
Musician
Harp Parts Transcriber
Transcriber of the Melodies
A Venezuelan musician. Master’s degree composer, college professor, choir conductor and pianist. I’m passionate about harmony, musical analysis, orchestration and music production. I love classical and popular music.
Producer
Lead Videographer
Videographer
“Software Development Analyst III at Northrop Grumman”
Photographer
“Albert has 6 years of experience with Medicare and Medicaid policy consulting. Albert specializes in large dataset analysis using SAS or open-source technology program such R and python. Albert has extensive experience analyzing Medicare and other health datasets and applying the results in solving policy challenges. Albert also has 4 years’ experience managing database: PostgreSQL and SQL server.
Web Designer & Deverlpoer
Zainab is young and passionate designer and have 5 years of web design and development.
Graphic Designer
Charlotte Roberts’ career has spanned more than 40 years, and has taken her from her hometown of Richmond, Virginia, to the halls of Washington, D.C. and Europe, encompassing a wide variety of musical styles, events and experiences.
Charlotte began playing the cello at the age of ten, and went on to study cello at East Carolina University, and then at Virginia Commonwealth University where she earned a Bachelor of Music degree with High Honors. Her teachers include Frantisek Smetana, David Hardy, Stephen Kates, Robert Newkirk and Neal Cary.
From 1991 to 2014 Charlotte was a member of The United States Army Band, “Pershing’s Own”, where she served as Principal Cellist and performed in numerous important historical and military events, from Presidential Inaugurations to State Dinners, as well as countless performances across the country for the public. As a member of Pershing’s Own, Charlotte served as Army Strings Group Leader, Orchestra Manager and Producer, String Quartet Producer, and in numerous other positions of responsibility. She also performed on dozens of chamber music recitals at Ft. Myer, VA and other venues around the country.
Prior to serving with the Army Band, Charlotte was a member of the Richmond Symphony, the Virginia Symphony and the Virginia Opera, (where she served as Assistant Principal Cello). She was a very active freelancer as well as teacher, serving as Adjunct Cello Professor at Mary Washington College for 12 years. She also performed as Principal Cellist with the American Institute of Music Studies, in Graz, Austria, and with the Spoleto Music Festival, in Charleston, SC and Spoleto, Italy.
Since retiring from the Army Band in 2014, Charlotte continues to freelance in the Washington D.C., Richmond, and Williamsburg areas, performing with the National Symphony, Richmond Symphony, Alexandria Symphony, Virginia Chamber Orchestra, Arlington Philharmonic, (where she serves as Principal cellist), Williamsburg Symphony, and for many other venues and events.
Over the years Charlotte has also performed on numerous recordings in a wide variety of genres and musical styles, to include vocal, orchestral, chamber music and commercial.
Charlotte lives in Northern Virginia with her guitarist husband, Jim, and enjoys gardening, hiking, wild birds, good movies and spending time with family and friends.
David Jones (Producer) is the Pastor of Music and Worship at Second Baptist Church in Lancaster SC and the Missions Coordinator for the Washington D.C. division of Worship Convergence International. He has spent his entire life working with church musicians and considers it an honor to be invited along on this project.
David studied music at Averett University and worship at Liberty University, both in Virginia. It is his passion to use music as a means to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to proclaim God’s greatness to the world. His prayer is that these albums would further that cause.
