Noemi Capote is a multifaceted Creative Soul bringing inspiration to the world through her writing, music, and spiritual light. Founder and Director of Noemi Creative Souls, a nonprofit for the Creative Arts.
Dustin Maximillian King is a Hip-Hop/Trap Producer from Canada best known as MillionKing Music.
Encouraged by his parents, Dustin started playing the piano at a young age. In junior high, he taught himself guitar, and in the University, he picked on music production and has been producing for about 5 years.
Dustin is currently creating beats for placements on TV, films, commercials, and so forth. He’s collaborating with other artists, excited to keep making music and sharing it with the world.
Among some of his upbeat tracks are King Tut, Seasons, and Don’t Stop.
“Don’t worry. It gets better than you can ever imagine,” Dustin encourages us to not allow the things we need to address to go unnoticed. To move forward with our creative dreams and make them a reality through hard work and a dedicated heart.
The name clearly identifies with the platform’s core philosophy. However, over the years, we have supported all forms of creativity by rendering love to artists, musicians, multi-instrumentalists, digital artists authors, spoken word artists, etc.
We have a simple funda of life- love begets love and kindness comes back bouncing. Here at ByBt, we give it happily. It’s been a constant endeavor to offer inspiration through varied activities entailing, live reads of poems, everyday prompts, features by curators, collaboration with ByBt, recommended poets shared in IG stories, and promoting classic poetry through a two-month-long festival.
Special lives to create awareness of Alzheimer’s, dementia, mental health domestic violence, women empowerment, etc. Celebrating special calendar events with live streams.
Our philanthropic family has raised funds for poets or for a humanitarian cause.
Through hard work and dedication, the family at ByBt has made it what it is- an unbiased, safe, public-spirited platform for the poetry community.
Luca Di Alessandro is a Music Producer and Sound Designer from Peru. He got started in music when he was a kid, playing any instrument he could get his hands on. “Once I started, I couldn’t stop,” Luca explains that once he discovered music was his vocation, it was all he wanted to do, and he still has the innate desire to make music as often as he can.
He started listening to electronic music, like David Guetta, and began to study music, learning about its history, production, and mastering.
Luca’s genre is Electronic Progressive House, Underground Tech House, and Deep House. He has released many singles including Shadow and Grounded, which won 3rd place in a music contest. In December 2022, Luca Di Alessandro released his first EP, Million Voices, available to stream everywhere.
“To make music is a beautiful way of showing the world who you are and how to be remembered by. It means to accomplish your dreams in some way or another.” – Luca Di Alessandro.
Brian Aguiar is an artist, poet, and 8th-grade English teacher from Newport, Rhode Island.
“Art is as much a part of me as my own skin, and in a word, it means everything to me.” Brian works with a variety of mediums and he’s continuously challenging himself to learn, grow, and evolve as an artist.
He first began experimenting with pastels in August of 2022 and continues to improve and refine his technique and craft. “My eventual goal is to write and illustrate a series of poems, as well as a children’s book.”
As simple as it may look, Brian’s art takes devotion and time to create. It invites us to appreciate the special moments found in nature, adding depth to the art with his poems.
GOLDEN LOTUS is an art piece Brian created for the cover of the first volume of the Creative Souls Gazette, our digital magazine. It’s lovely how Brian played with shades of purple, and how the reflection of the moon on the pond makes the lotus radiate with a soft touch of yellow.
ANIMAL SPIRIT ART
RAVEN, Brian Aguiar @the.black.binder
Unique art pieces based on the messages from animal spirits from the book, My Fauna Within, by Noemi Capote.
Spiritual Entrepreneurs are overcoming the challenges passed down through systematic structures, and they are raising their voices to shed light on the reality behind the stigmas that revolve around plant medicine, esoteric wisdom, energy healing, holistic practices, you name it. Thankfully, Creative Soul Collette Elosha is transforming the narrative of outdated customs, beliefs, and traditions that don’t necessarily fit everyone’s heart’s desires, helping us to appreciate what is natural for humans: our innate ability to have a profound relationship with nature and with ourselves and experience true healing.
Collette is a writer, spokesperson, plant medicine healer, and founder of Balancing Cannabis and Love Culture. She’s also an amateur acrobat who plays in partner acrobatics and acro-yoga. Collette is obsessed with studying the nervous system, and how integrating plant medicine can reveal our spiritual selves at a deeper level. She considers herself a tour guide, not a teacher, feeling like she’s holding a lantern, making sure she keeps the light on to clear the way. Yet, she is the light herself igniting it with her eternal golden flame.
Balancing Cannabis is Collette’s precious love-child, born in 2019. Offering services such as Cannabis Meditation, Cannabis Ceremony, Breathwork, and Womb Healing. Collette welcomes emotional responses through her ceremonies that resonate with her client’s process and ability to heal. She offers Cannabis Meditation every Monday, virtually and by donation, where she educates about the pros and cons of cannabis, elevating the meaning of simply “smoking for the fun of it” into a journey of self-discovery and liberation, helping to understand it to its fullest. Her soothing voice immerses us in an imaginary realm of limitless possibilities, creating an intimate experience with the cannabis plant, becoming interconnected with our true intentions, and awakening the divine force that we carry within.
Love Culture is a virtual studio that offers alternative modalities of wellness and healing. People are sure to enjoy a safe space to explore their consciousness and expand their souls. Dude Yoga, Body Conscious Meditation, and Cannabis Sound Baths are some of the wonderful offerings that we can find in the Love Culture community. All of the facilitators on Love Culture have practiced and trained extensively in Collette’s training/classes, and they are equally committed to creating safe containers for all humans to explore these modalities.
Flourishing into the grand and ravishing oak tree that she is today hasn’t been easy. It’s been a rigorous process of painful endings, replanting her faith outside of God-fearing doctrines, and going out into the world to pursue knowledge that could help her understand her mystical experiences. This led her to dive into yoga and meditation practices, studying and reading many books about energy and spirituality, going on a pilgrimage journey, and “coming up against a hunger to heal” herself. In pursuit of healing herself of chronic depression and PTSD, she worked with plant medicines, such as mushrooms and cannabis, to support her efforts for healing and leading a lifestyle that better suited her.
Through many moon phases of natural evolution, Collette not only found herself, but she connected to her tribe and the realization that God is not found but actualized. She broke out of her chrysalis and is now spreading her wings to support people where they are in their path, guiding them to feel less guilty and more optimistic.
Alongside the many wonderful endeavors that Collette is achieving, she’s currently serving as an educator and advocate for the responsible and ethical use of medical cannabis for firefighters and first responders. Working diligently with her father, a Fire Chief, she was invited as the keynote speaker at the Texas Fire Chiefs Association Annual Conference in December of 2022. She intends to keep stepping into opportunities to educate and inform as many that will listen about the necessity of supporting the mental health of our firefighters.
Our world is a better place because of soulpreneurs like Collette Elosha, using her euphonious voice and grand wisdom to create union instead of division, uplifting our souls, and reminding us that we are more than just our problems and fears. Collette is here to open the eyes of our souls to live an authentic life, with its ups and downs, being honest, grounded, and above all, feeling at home within our own skin, one breath at a time.
“Listen” is comprised of the songs Bass Ronin and I have cumulatively worked on together. I think from the first song we made, I was captivated by his unique, soothing, and beautiful production style. The lyrics started to flow naturally for me and we were able to make one song after another, each with its own unique energy.
What ended up being the message behind most of the lyrics in these songs circulates around the deep desire to take a closer look at the world – to listen to people’s stories. To listen to the reality of the struggles of other human beings, and to listen to yourself.
“Poison in my Veins” talks about being out of touch with yourself and feeling the need to reconnect with what you really need in your soul. “Grounding my Soul,” written by Noemi Capote, reminds us how to re-center and heal ourselves again. Kuu Sound
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Kai, known as Kuu Sound, is a singer-songwriter and Music Producer, from Oregon, currently in Transylvania.
Our existence would not be the same without music and love. They each influence our lives in meaningful ways as we evolve in our journeys. Creative Soul, Kathi Fran is a luminous musician filling the empty spaces in our hearts with memorable songs, reminding us that music and love are there to embrace us in unfathomable ways to make us whole.
Coming from a family of musicians, melodies and rhymes have been running through Kathi Fran’s veins since she was born. Her dear mother became her biggest inspiration and guide, and as early as 3 years old, Kathi Fran tried painting and playing the piano with her mother, able to read and understand music naturally. Noticing how much her little one wanted to become a rock star, Kathi Fran’s mother gave her the necessary support to set her on a creative path where music was the nucleus.
Kathi Fran found comfort in music and a way to express her struggles through her songs. She further trained in classical and jazz flute, piano, voice lessons, clarinet, and saxophone, and even played around with the guitar. In her teens, Kathi Fran played in clubs, with bands or acoustic trios, and started finding musicians to play with, including a garage band. She taught piano lessons to children and got a degree in Math, Music, and Art becoming a teacher at the Middle School near her hometown in Southern California. Little did she know that music was waiting for her with arms wide open, and she was offered the chorus teacher position, helping to build the High School chorus program as well.
Unfortunately, Kathi Fran faced ovarian cancer and had to leave the program. When she went back after her remission, her students welcomed her with an awe-inspiring performance of Imagine. She certainly left a lasting impression on her students, some of whom remain in contact to this day. She later moved to Texas, where she currently resides.
In 2017, Kathi Fran had to say goodbye to her best friend and muse. Unable to see a piano without her tender soul aching for her mother, Kathi Fran set aside music for a while. Yet again, music kept calling her home.
When the world almost collided in 2020, Kathi Fran asked herself ‘What’s my purpose?’ And she found her answer in music and love. She dove into the infinite possibilities that are inside of her Creative Soul, finding ways to learn and grow to help her fulfill the music career of her dreams. She joined a songwriter’s group, attending a retreat in Spain where she met part of her soul tribe. This led her to learn about sync opportunities (placement of songs on TV, films, commercials, etc.), opening the doors to a new dimension of the music industry.
2023 is the year that Kathi Fran is going to share the songs she has been crafting along with other dear musicians and mentors. She’s releasing one single every month, relevant to the theme of the month, revealing her personal story with her songs.
Her first single, Second Chance At First Love, was released on the biggest day of love, Valentine’s Day. It is the tale of Kathi Fran and her soulmate, and how they connected after 33 years of being apart, and how the power of their love brought them back together even after trials and failed marriages. There is no doubt that music and love may have played a magical role in Kathi Fran’s love story.
Our lives can take us on a rollercoaster ride where it feels like we are losing every part of ourselves. Music has a way of reminding us that we are not really lost, we just need to tap into the love that’s already within and allow it to light up our horizons, so we can see that we are one important piece in the grand musical that is life. Kathi Fran inspires us to have more faith in ourselves, and with her songs, she’s declaring that second chances are never too late to accept and appreciate. Let music and love guide you.
I made this collaboration with Kuu Sound after we connected on Instagram and became fans of each other’s music. She wrote and recorded her vocals over the instrumental I produced after sending her a short clip of the chorus. It’s a reflective song about breaking from attachments and making internal changes. It tells the story of a lone astronaut drifting off into space after a catastrophic event. – Typho
Chorus (Kuu Sound)
Do you know where you're going
Even if you don't gotta make it up
And the holes are showing
Everything around you is breaking up
Verse 1 (Kuu Sound)
Am I falling
Am I flying
Something's calling out deep inside me now
What do I believe
Am I really free
Will I come out the other side
I seem to have lost every trace of my sight
Maybe it's okay I've got no place to go
Come and float with me into the unknown
Chorus (Typho)
Do you know where you're going
Even if you don't gotta make it up
And the holes are showing
Everything around you is breaking up
Verse 2 (Typho)
Not a clue
Held down by gravity like glue
The whole fabric of reality got swallowed up when the black hole grew
Trapped in loop
Heavy metal weight strapped to the boots
Even if I elevate and get up all the colour getting dimmer gotta hold a bigger vision when I'm searching for what's true
Moving away from the place that I knew
All the walls have fallen through
Floating above the maze with a panoramic view
Change up change up change up energy inside of you
The brightest star up in the sky is blue
Ignite a fuse supernova brought a sonic boom
Wires loose fire burning where the comet flew
Illuminate the other side of the moon
When all the planets fall turn these molecules to something new
Head above the clouds like Zeus
Interstellar on a mission when I get away to cultivate a better way of living
and I'm running from the weather gotta navigate and follow where the solar wind it blew
Scattering the particles of matter reassemble every atom all are hollow at the centre
while caught up in a battle with the inner armegeddon was developing the shape that I morphed into
Bridge (Typho)
88 days
From the sun
Empty space
Oblivion
Chorus (Kuu Sound)
Do you know where you're going
Even if you don't gotta make it up
And the holes are showing
Everything around you is breaking up
This track conveys the balance we aim to achieve as creators and artists- the dance we do with external responsibilities and happenings, while the yearning inside pervades, calling us to pursue our passions.
Caught up in the nine to five
Still seeking the sustainable dream
Entwining the two…
A spider’s web of deceit
For time ever moving
A vortex in the abyss
of one's soul
Alas, mere perception
Pauses in the creative flow
Like a lasso to the moon
The kraken's tentacle pulls
Gravity beckons
And for just a moment
I’ve lost the muse
Yet, the artist within
still resides
Dancing the wanton path
Waltzing high
In homage to reverie
A symphony at play
Time ever present
Hear the Koto sing
Hidden hues still sought
Amid the barren plain
Splashes of color
Upon a blank canvas
of dreams
You can’t show me where to go
I’ve gotta start moving natural on my own
These faces, voices shadow me
Whispers repeat responsibilities
It’s not me
But I guess it’s gotta be
Til I can breathe
Flow into infinity
Pressure’s on me
Passion’s calling my soul
Just show me where to go, cause I don’t know
No I don’t know
I’ve been searching for some ways
To come into the life I wanna create
These faces, voice calling for me
Try to give it all but I never learned to receive
Pressure’s on me (I wanna breathe)
Passion’s calling my soul
Just show me where to go, cause I don’t know
No I don’t know
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Kai, known as Kuu Sound, is a singer-songwriter and Music Producer, from Oregon, currently in Transylvania.
This collaboration started as an idea to tap into our animal instincts through our movements. This dance and poem are our sweet declaration that we are one with nature, setting free the animal within.
Within me flows the river of life
I am the feathers on the Eagle
I am the breath of the Lion
The heart of the Crow
In me, the Snake finds refuge
Under my arms, the Finch is free
Look into my cat-looking eyes
You will see your soul unveiled
In the depths of my mind
You will find the wisdom of the Owl
My voice is the Tiger’s roar
Can you hear it?
Can you sense it all?
Can you feel the animal within?
Setting free
The Animal Within
As the river flowing into the sea- alive in wonder
I breathe
Water coursing through my veins
I am the healer, the dancer, the wolf- howling amid midnight rain.
For there beneath a pale silver moon
Illuminated upon gossamer wings
The butterfly hums a silent tune
Her dragon spirit yet to reign
She embraces it all…
The Animal spirit within
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Dino De Maria is a Sound & Visual Artist from Las Vegas, Nevada.
