Spiritual pop artist Cynthia Angelica has always been fascinated by language, including the fact that simple changes in diction, volume, stress, and context can create vastly different meaning. Rediscovering herself through music after a more than decade-long career as an executive ghostwriter, Cynthia Angelica notes that her debut album, Fears and Dreams, represents the first time her voice is her own – with no strings attached.

Growing up in a small town, Cynthia Angelica, a Maryland native, turned to music as a creative outlet. She first experienced the atmosphere changing power of music while growing up in the Black church, citing gospel artists Richard Smallwood, Kirk Franklin, and CeCe Winans as early influences. Later, her influences expanded to include artists from various genres, including Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, Sade, and Kim Walker-Smith.

Fears and Dreams, produced by Dave Mallen of award-winning studio Innovation Station Music, transforms fear into a positive and driving emotion, steadying the wildest of anxieties and allowing audiences to tap into strength they did not realize they had. The album, which contains the 2023 WAMMIE award-winning single “Grace,” offers music with a message that inspires, challenges, and unapologetically brings light to darkness.

Cynthia Angelica’s powerful debut album explores the intersection of faith and fear within the context of a dark, uncertain time in our world. “There can be no victory without a battle, without a fight,” said Cynthia Angelica. “And often, the biggest fight is the one that lies within. The underlying question we grapple with daily is ‘are we going to make it?’ It’s increasingly difficult to know the answer, but we can have confidence in knowing that there is promise in the process.”