The Beautiful Piano, the latest project by Chilliwack, BC-based singer-songwriter Debbie Fortnum will now be available at Christian retailers across Canada on March 4th.

The project, produced by Chris Janz, was nominated for three GMA Canada Covenant Award including Instrumental Album of the Year and CD Artwork of the Year features the Covenant Award winning Instrumental Song Of The Year, “Easter Morning Sunrise”. Fortnum and Janz first met in 1995 and they have since collaborated on four of her five albums. Janz is a multi-Award winning artist/producer and the son of Canadian Juno Award winner, Paul Janz.

“He’s incredibly gifted, and is the encouraging dynamite underneath my piano playing,” says Fortnum. “There is nothing that makes me feel more alive than being in the recording studio. There is not one single sheet of music in the studios when we record. It is all a very spontaneously creative and moving experience.”

Having performed at over 100 weddings since age 13 has given Fortnum first-hand insight into the power of music without words. “My experience as a Wedding Pianist has helped me learn what instrumental piano music can do for people,” explains Fortnum. “In our crazy, busy culture,we are lacking healthy ways to retreat, think, process our own thoughts and emotions and even breathe long enough to re-connect with what’s most important in life.”

The Beautiful Piano is an intensely personal album for Fortnum as she wrote instrumental songs for each of her children in her living room on her Grandmother’s antique piano. There are also two bonus vocal tracks including “I Am Yours” that she wrote and sang for her husband on their wedding day. “Chris loved it, saying that it is one of the best songs he’d ever heard come out of me and that we needed to record it,” explains Fortnum. “I’m a hopeless romantic so I called my husband Scott and asked if I could share ‘our song’ with the world and he said of course.”

Fortnum’s music has caught the attention of those in the industry:

• “A rare combination of musical ability, maturity and significant gift of songwriting!”
  Dick Tunney, Nashville Producer and Award-winning songwriter

• “One of the many things that we appreciate about Debbie is her ability to reach out and touch all ages and types of women. Her musical talent unquestionably is one of the best. If you have met Debbie once, you will feel you have a friend forever.”
  Conference/Event Planner from Bellingham, WA

• “Debbie always seems to find a way to engage so many people in what is happening around the world. Her support to the victims of the tsunami, earthquakes, hurricanes, and flooding has been substantial. Only God knows how many lives were touched by her ministry.”
  Ben Hoogendoorn, President Canadian Food for the Hungry International

Fans have also responded to her music. Fortnum’s four independent CDs, both vocal and instrumental, have sold over 16,000 units in total. With almost 100 touring dates last year, and even more on the calendar for 2008, Fortnum is hitting the road again with an inspiring musical message of love, hope and beauty through her music.

Find out more about The Beautiful Piano on Fortnum’s YMZ artist page.

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