The story of a young woman.
Take the GW Bridge out of NYC, head up the Palisades Parkway, and get on Rte. 17 West for about 20 miles. Sooner or later you'll see signs for Goshen, NY. On a quiet street, in a brick house, in a basement bedroom is where it all began. Sure, there were your church choirs that you sang in, high school plays, and hot summer nights filled with music. All of them must have had some sort of effect on Cynthia, or maybe it would have happenend regardless.

Somewhere, probably in that bedroom basement it started to make sense. The thoughts tranformed to poetry on paper. Pages and pages of rhyming words filled notebooks. " I always knew I could sing. It was just something I did without thinking. I never knew how badly I wanted to be perform on stage until I went to see Stevie Nicks in concert one summer. I remember watching her perform her song "Gypsy" at an out door venue. I think time stood still when I saw the sheer joy on her face when she sang that song and danced around the stage. I knew what I needed to do after that."

An interest in majoring in Opera quickly came to a halt when she saw her first opportunity to play in a live band. She joined local rock group "Sleazy Bob's Road". Playing everything from Led Zeppelin to Heart, she grew tired of learning everyone else's material and decided to write her own. Ironically, another local band "Broqun Masque" was looking for a lead singer to front their all original project. Cynthia joined the group and enjoyed much local success playing to packed clubs and opening for several signed acts touring through New York's Hudson Valley.

It was around that time that her music tastes were changing. "I was tired of the heavy rock scene. I knew I was compromising my art when I was writing my own songs on my acoustic, but not able to play them in the band I was in. I had to take some time and really figure out where I wanted this to go." After writing several original pieces, Cynthia decided to put her own band together and play out under her own name. A move to New York City allowed her to collaberate with several local musicians looking to get involved in various projects. On her EP titled "Luminescence" producer Steve French was able to capture more of her unique vocal sound and haunting melodies. "It was like stripping the onion. Every time another layer came off, the more vulnerable my sound was. With the wall of noise I became used to surrounding me in previous projects, I felt these songs represented who I always was but never had a chance to express".

These are the roots of Cynthia Dillenbeck. "I think I've come full circle. You always start out so innocent and on fire in this business. So often you can become so distracted with mapping out the process, that you risk losing sight of the dream and what matters. If one person walks up to me at a show and tells me they loved my performance, that's enough for me. Unfortunetely, you can't get by playing the NYC circuit with one person at your show. The self promoting, money, & energy it takes to do this can be overwhelming at times. The most important thing is to get my music out to as many people as possible and hopefully inspire somone in the process.